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Have to relate this tale to you, hope you dont mind TC
I think the French just like causing the English as much trouble as they can. When I went to South Africa for my sons wedding we had my three year old grandson with us. Obvioulsy we needed his buggy with us so he could have anap/sit whatever inbetween flights. Booked in at Newcastle British Airways staright through to Durban, but needed buggy at each airport. Absoluetly no problem on way their as at Charles De Gaulle it was BA plane we got off and they had buggy ready. Air France to Jo Burg no prob as all luggage had to be unloaded. On the return O waht a difference. Again booked in all the way Durban to Newcastle. Got on Air France Joburg to Charles De Gaulle, handed buggy over making sure they knew e wanted it at other end. Got there asked for buggy, we have had to unload it as normal with other baggage. Anybdody ever heard of that before. Okay no sweat we will go and pick it up. Trouble is instead of just being able to pick it up and go by bus to our departure gate, we had to go through customs and passport control to get to luggage. An hour later no buggy on carousel, went to office sorry buggy had been loaded onto your next palne no channce of getting it. Baggage handler comes along, not French, just hang on i will see what i can do, another hour later he turns up with buggy. Luckily we had loads of time between flights. Already being checked in we went to boarding gate. Officious Frenchman states, sorry you can all go thorugh except the bugy it has not been checked in. Trying to expalin to a fenchman who dosnt want to know that it alraedy has is a waste of time. Off we go to get a bloody bugy checked in, we find we only have three boarding passes. The last person who had them, yes you guessed it. Off i went of course his arms went up ho ho not me i have not got it you will have to go and get another. Joinging the checkin que again thankfully a non frech checker just simply made out a duplicate and we where through. No wonder they didnt get the games.