I have only ever flown with AF once. It was in the early nineties from LHR to CDG. I seem to remember it was an A310 – is this likely on that route?
Anyway, it was a very stormy summer afternoon. Thunder, lightning, torrential rain and CB all round, yet my flight went on time despite most other airlines showing delays from T2.
It came as no great surprise several years later, when travelling cross channel from Dover to Calais on a very stormy day, that Sea France were still operating when both P&O and Stena (which were still separate companies at the time) had cancelled all their crossings.
The ship went first to the western end of the harbour to work up speed and take a good run-up at the eastern harbour entrance. It was the one and only time I had seen other passengers shut up and listen to the safety briefing on a cross channel ferry.