Back in 95, there were still lots of International carriers that still allowed smoking on their flights. Perhaps that particular seat, was just overlooked by the gound crew. Big whoop. No fault of the airline. As far as Air France goes, they are not the only airline that uses an all white or primarily white livery. JAL’s livery is primarily white, yet their planes typically are in immaculate condition, both inside and out. My cousin who was a ramp worker at LAX recently can attest to this. Even the cargo holds in their 747 classics were spotless. LH and AC planes usually seem pretty clean. QF’s planes are always clean, and I can further attest to their cleanliness as I took the SYD ramp tour, 2 747’s were being washed at QF’s 2 wash bays. As far as AF’f planes being used 18 hours of the day and don’t have enough time to be washed, yeah, so? Other airlines don’t have that kind of utilization rate?