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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe.
Looks like about 1/2 an hour (assuming on time!) to taxi to gate, deplane (back of coach!), get to 2F. Is this likely a disaster connection or does it have a fighting chance? It must do ONE WOULD THINK since Air France sold the ticket for it :-) Thanks in advance for any regular CDGers' feedback, Mike Flight: AF031 From: G Bush Intercontinental, Houston, USA - TERMINAL D Departing: September 29, 2007 21:55 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 To: NCL, Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM - TERMINAL Arriving: September 30, 2007 16:00 |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
"SBC News" wrote et ...
Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 From: G Bush Intercontinental, Houston, USA - TERMINAL D Departing: September 29, 2007 21:55 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 To: NCL, Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM - TERMINAL Arriving: September 30, 2007 16:00 *** The minimum connection time voor CDG is 50 minutes, so the offer is valid. The other question is whether you will make it and that chance is slim. My reasons for thinking that? Terminal 2E isn't fully functional and the aircraft will probably park on a remote stand, meaning bussing passengers to terminal 2E. Then there probably is a security check and then another bus to Terminal 2F. The good news is that later there's another direct flight to NCL and several other options to get to NCL via AMS or SOU :-) It won't hurt asking at check-in what the options are if you can't make it or asking to be seated more in front near the exit. Before landing you could ask the same thing, tell/ show the cabin crew you have a tight connection. I do think, however, your luggage will make it. Personally I like to have ample time and try to book long(er) layovers to avoid any stress. Greetings, -20.10h: AF 5855 |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
"SBC News" wrote:
Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 I would not take the chance. It your first leg is delayed, if you're not quick enuff into the terminal and thru passport control... I can understand why AF would schedule such a short layover. It might be doable for a Euro-national who could flash a passport and then breeze thru CDG, but for a US national, unfamiliar with CDG, it'd be a recipe for failure. =R= |
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"Rog'" wrote in message
. .. "SBC News" wrote: Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 I would not take the chance. It your first leg is delayed, if you're not quick enuff into the terminal and thru passport control... I can understand why AF would schedule such a short layover. It might be doable for a Euro-national who could flash a passport and then breeze thru CDG, but for a US national, unfamiliar with CDG, it'd be a recipe for failure. =R= The transfer should be Airside without any passport control as the ultimate destination is the UK, which is not within the Schengen Zone. -- JohnT |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
I should have said, although US Perm Resident, am UK national with UK
passport. So maybe there's hope? Having been in the US for many years with infrequent trips to Europe passport control within Europe is mysterious to me. Perhaps on this trip with UK passport there's no passport check at CDG. The logistics of that are beyond me. The last time I went through CDG I was ongoing to Nice and I think it was there (NCE) that they checked passports. But quite how they know you are going to make a connection and not walk out of CDG . . . Perhaps someone could tell me if Passport control at CDG will happen for a UK Passort Holder travelling from the US via CDG ongoing destination Newcastle UK? Thanks again. Mike "Rog'" wrote in message . .. "SBC News" wrote: Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 I would not take the chance. It your first leg is delayed, if you're not quick enuff into the terminal and thru passport control... I can understand why AF would schedule such a short layover. It might be doable for a Euro-national who could flash a passport and then breeze thru CDG, but for a US national, unfamiliar with CDG, it'd be a recipe for failure. =R= |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
"SBC News" wrote in message
t... Perhaps someone could tell me if Passport control at CDG will happen for a UK Passort Holder travelling from the US via CDG ongoing destination Newcastle UK? You should remain airside at CDG and your Passport will be examined and your bags will (in theory) be subject to Customs examination at your final destination, which is NCL. -- JohnT |
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"Martin" wrote in message
... On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:54:12 +0100, "JohnT" wrote: "SBC News" wrote in message . net... Perhaps someone could tell me if Passport control at CDG will happen for a UK Passort Holder travelling from the US via CDG ongoing destination Newcastle UK? You should remain airside at CDG and your Passport will be examined and your bags will (in theory) be subject to Customs examination at your final destination, which is NCL. What happens when it arrives the following day? This scenario happens always when I fly back to NCL via LHR or BRU from Switzerland. My bag gets checked-in at a Swiss Rail station and their bar codes don't get recognised at airports so luggage has to be sorted manually and never connects. So I go to the BA or Swissport desk in baggage reclaim at NCL and am asked if my bag has any dutiable articles from outside the EU. Regardless of whether I answer in the affirmative or not, my bag is always delivered to me the following morning by taxi, unopened and unexamined. -- JohnT |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
Rog' wrote:
"SBC News" wrote: Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 I would not take the chance. It your first leg is delayed, if you're not quick enuff into the terminal and thru passport control... I can understand why AF would schedule such a short layover. It might be doable for a Euro-national who could flash a passport and then breeze thru CDG, but for a US national, unfamiliar with CDG, it'd be a recipe for failure. =R= Given that description, it doesn't sound like you have any experience with this transfer. |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:54:12 +0100, "JohnT" wrote: "SBC News" wrote in message t... Perhaps someone could tell me if Passport control at CDG will happen for a UK Passort Holder travelling from the US via CDG ongoing destination Newcastle UK? You should remain airside at CDG and your Passport will be examined and your bags will (in theory) be subject to Customs examination at your final destination, which is NCL. What happens when it arrives the following day? When that's happened to me (arriving at MAN off a connection via AMS or LHR from YYZ), the bag has been delivered to me at my parents' house by van or by taxi, unopened and unexamined. -- Stephen Dolly: He's not ideal for James Bond, Sooty. He'd never be able to handle the gadgets. Anita: He could surprise the villains. They wouldn't be looking down that far. |
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CDG Air France Tight connection, or too tight?
I have connected from AF out of Houston in Paris to an intra-European flight
and this is really pushing it. The problem is that the inter-terminal buses tend to be a full and the stop a madhouse. Unless you can run it (clear customs, then run to the connection at 2F), you aren't going to make it. I'd look for a later flight. "Thur" wrote in message ... "SBC News" wrote et ... Can anyone tell me whether this connection (apparently a published one) is feasible? How far between CDG 2E and 2F. Sounds close, but that usually means it's about 5 miles apart by bus and tram and shoe. Flight: AF031 From: G Bush Intercontinental, Houston, USA - TERMINAL D Departing: September 29, 2007 21:55 To: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2E Arriving: September 30, 2007 14:25 Flight: AF5853 From: Charles de Gaulle, Paris, FRANCE - TERMINAL 2F Departing: September 30, 2007 15:25 To: NCL, Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM - TERMINAL Arriving: September 30, 2007 16:00 *** The minimum connection time voor CDG is 50 minutes, so the offer is valid. The other question is whether you will make it and that chance is slim. My reasons for thinking that? Terminal 2E isn't fully functional and the aircraft will probably park on a remote stand, meaning bussing passengers to terminal 2E. Then there probably is a security check and then another bus to Terminal 2F. The good news is that later there's another direct flight to NCL and several other options to get to NCL via AMS or SOU :-) It won't hurt asking at check-in what the options are if you can't make it or asking to be seated more in front near the exit. Before landing you could ask the same thing, tell/ show the cabin crew you have a tight connection. I do think, however, your luggage will make it. Personally I like to have ample time and try to book long(er) layovers to avoid any stress. Greetings, -20.10h: AF 5855 |
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