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Can't Get a Ride? Other Ways to Reach Six International Airports

Just because Thanksgiving has passed doesn't mean that travel will dwindle much; Christmas and other holidays are now less than one month away, and of course travel to wherever you're heading for them will start sooner. If you're heading home or on vacation, and you can't convince someone to come pick you up from the airport, we might be able to help.

Throughout December, we'll be adding more guides on how to reach airports around the world via both public and private transportation, but for now, here are six guides we've already got for you:

· New York-JFK

· Paris-Charles de Gaulle

· Rome-Fiumicino/Leonardo da Vinci

· Tokyo-Narita

· London-Heathrow

· London-Gatwick (just the Express train featured)

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Awesome Video Alert: 5,500 Miles to Paris in Two Minutes

What's with the recent trend of travelers taking really great HD videos of their flights and making them into pseudo-dream sequences? We love it, really we do, and we're thrilled that our friend AirlineReporter has pointed out yet another amazing mini-film today: a two-minute trip from San Francisco to Paris onboard an Air France A340.

The video is recent—uploaded to YouTube on April 1—but there's no April Fool's joking about it. Watch above for breaktaking glimpses of the Northern Lights and snow-covered tundra. Passenger Nate Bolt captured 2,459 photos during the 5,576-mile trip, with the permission of Air France.

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Inside Air France’s Salon d’Affaires at Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Maybe it’s just us, but every time we fly out of Charles de Gaulle, we end up getting delayed for a few hours. After our recent trip to Paris, that delay turned out to be four hours all told, so we figured we might as well check out Air France’s Salon d’Affaires, and doesn't it sound so much better than “airport lounge?"

So, for the next installment in our Airport Lounge Series, we’re taking you for an inside look at the Salon d’Affaires, and its many amenities both bon et non:

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Continental Airlines is Now a Convicted Concorde Murderer

The remembrance stone in Roissy, France

Just over ten years after the deadly day, a French court has found Continental Airlines guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the July 2000 crash of the Air France Concorde, which took the lives of 109 passengers and crew and another 4 on the ground. So just how did this come to be, that another airline is convicted of murdering the entire flight of another airline? It all goes back to a small piece of metal.

The tragedy of the Concorde AF Flight 4590 is well known, but here's a sentence to refresh your memory: a Continental Airlines DC-10 flew out of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. The plane wasn't properly maintained, and a 12" x 17" piece of titanium (that shouldn't have been on the plane anyways) fell of it onto the runway at CDG. The Concorde took off next, and the metal strip burst a tire, pieces of which then ruptured a fuel tank, which then did all sorts of damage and turned the Concorde into a flaming projectile that crashed into a motel outside the airport. The structural fragility of the areas damaged in this crash caused all Concordes to be grounded for the time being, and all Concordes ceased flying in 2003.

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Airport Worker Strikes in Paris and Berlin Delay Scores of Flights

If you're planning on flying into or out of Paris-Charles de Gaulle or Paris-Orly airports today, you might want to be extra aware of your flight's status on FlightStats and have your airline's contact number at hand, as French airport workers have gone on strike over retirement age.

Tweeting live from the front lines—from on a delayed plane at CDG—is musician Ted Leo, of the band Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. First, his flight returned to the gate before takeoff with an equipment issue, and just as that was fixed and they were all set to leave for the US, the airport workers' strike began. His latest tweet: "We've been disembarked aaaaaaand it looks like the entire airport's shutting down." Now, CDG is delaying and canceling flights on account of the strike, and other Paris-bound flights from international airports should also be affected.

Now, for Berlin's similar issues...

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Updated: What Airports Have Full-Body Scanners Right Now

It's been too long since last time we really delved into the full-body scanning controversy, aside from that brief bit about the Pope hating full-body scanners. And now that more and more of the pricey, privacy-invading machines are being ordered up and delivered to airports, we thought it was about time to take another look at where you'll be encountering the massive gadgets.

The newest airports to the full-body scanning game are Chicago O'Hare and Boston Logan, with Boston welcoming their first of three scanners only yesterday. O'Hare is expecting to get their this week as well, and it will go into Terminal 1 with United, which means a significant amount of O'Hare flights will be screened throught them since this is United's home base. But although the scanners have arrived, they won't be operational and pushed on the passengers for another few weeks as employee training finishes and the things get plugged in.

Vive le full-body scan! More international airports join in, after the jump

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SuperShuttle Will Now Pick You Up At Paris' Three Airports

Où allez-vous? These are the words you will be hearing from your blue-jacketed SuperShuttle driver when he arrives to pick you up at any of the Paris airports for the trip into the city. That's right—Supershuttle, the shared bus airport transport company, has just opened their first international location, giving you some options for getting between Paris' center and its Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais airports.

Today in the Sky fills us in that average per-person rates for the trip between Paris and CDG is 27 Euros ($40) and reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance.

We actually frequently opt to take SuperShuttles to the airport, but warn that being picked up from the airport by them is very iffy and not once have we had a successful pick-up. Once, after a 13+hour flight back from Hong Kong, we spent an hour and a half on the curb at JFK while we waited for our SuperShuttle ride, despite having made reservations online. Oh, there were plenty SuperShuttle drivers there hanging out, it's just none of them had our name on their roster. Moral of the story? Always program SuperShuttle's phone number into your mobile, which was the only thing that eventually saved us.

Related Stories:
· Airport Check-in: SuperShuttle launches first international branch [Today in the Sky]
· On the Road Again: How To Reach Paris-Charles de Gaulle [Jaunted]
· Airport transportation coverage [Jaunted]

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Justin Timberlake Wards Off The Ladies With Armed Guard at CDG

Over the weekend, Justin Timberlake was spotted arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, rolling his own Louis Vuitton bag and being escorted by an armed guard, presumably to keep away screaming teenage girls.

Last night, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was also spotted with a guard in the Paris airport, only this guard wasn't trying to protect Meyers, he was trying to protect the general public. Apparently, the "Tudor" was on a bit of a bender as he threw money on the floor and drunkenly bragged about his wealth. He reportedly told the officers, "You wanna hit me? Hit me!"

We wonder if he was upset about the new baggage fees, which seem even worse now that there is a resolution in the House of Representatives to have the TSA take control of the size of carry-on bags. If passed, instead of each airline being responsible for screening the size of each passenger's bag, the TSA will presumably screen bags as people are going through the metal detectors.

This is supposed to insure a uniform standard for the size of all carry-on luggage, but will also mean your only choices in the airport will be to go through one more bureaucratic step or be gouged by the airlines to check your luggage. Maybe its time to get to know the Amtrak schedule a bit better.

Related Stories:
· Carry-on size may be policed by airport security [Wallet Pop]
· Report: Meyers detained by airport police [UPI]
· Airport Photo Shoots [Jaunted]

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On the Road Again: How to Reach Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Your flight has landed, you've claimed your luggage and now you're trying to get the hell out of the airport. To erase confusion and get your on your way, all week long at Jaunted we will be detailing the various ways to get to and from major airports, and what those modes cost, from cheapest to the big blowout entrance. Got any tips or an airport suggestion? Let us know.

· RER B-line Extraurban Train: Although the cheapest route into Paris proper, opting for the RER means quite a bit of slogging around with your luggage. First, know what terminal you'll be arriving into; if Terminal 1, you must take a green transport shuttle to the RER station there, and if Terminal 2, take a blue shuttle to the station where the TGV train also stops. In exchange for the run-around, your RER into the city gives you a whole host of jumping off chocies: Gare du Nord, Chatelet-les-Halles, Saint-Michel/Notre Dame, Luxembourg, Port-Royal, and Denfert-Rochereau.
Total cost: €8.40 per adult or €5.90 per child, each way
Total time: 35 minutes to Gare du Nord

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Airport Photo Shoot: Tuning Out the Catcalls

Not listening! Gisele Bundchen has done enough real-life photo shoots to know that she's being photographed constantly, which is why Tom Brady's girlfriend rocks the monochromatic look at Charles de Gaulle airport. And don't forget the shades!

Now that Brady's out for the season, we would have expected him and Bundchen to hole up and stay away from angry Pats fans. But she was recently spotted in Los Angeles with his son, who lives with Brady ex Bridget Moynahan... who probably called the cameramen on her ex-boyfriend's new fling.

We see the makings of a kooky romantic comedy here!

Related Stories:
· Gisele Bundchen's Brazilian Airport Photo Shoot [Jaunted]
· Sex Sells Travel: Virgin America's In-Flight PJ Party [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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Dance Away DVT at Paris Airports

We normally disregard all those handy stretching guides in the back of airport magazines, but moving around in the terminal can forestall the plane jitters. That's why we love the Aeroports de Paris plan to offer in-terminal dance lessons at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports this summer.

Learn anything from tango to twist on your layover this month before the program ends on August 17. Visit Gate 17 at Orly South, Gate 40 at Orly West and Gate E51 (Terminal 2E) at Charles de Gaulle to show 'em your best moves.

Related Stories:
· Flying to Cuba? Paris Airports Can Teach You Salsa [AP]
· Dansez à l'Aéroport! [Official Site, in French]
· Dance Dance! At Dance Valley [Jaunted]
· The Beach Volleyball Scene at Munich Airport [Jaunted]

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Airport Photo Shoot: Paris (and Her Luggage) in Paris

Good God. And we thought our friends overpacked. Paris Hilton doesn't fool around, it seems, when she's in her namesake city. TMZ counted 15 bags curbside at Paris Charles de Gaulle International, which is, give or take, 14 more than we usually carry.

Paris herself was dressed way down for the flight. (Maybe channeling JT?) But we give her credit for keeping up on the writers' strike with a copy of Variety in her carryon. Is she as nervous as we are that new episodes of Gossip Girl could be but a dream?

Related Stories:
· Paris Has a Lot of Baggage [TMZ]
· Airport Photo Shoots coverage [Jaunted]

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