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Is 1 Hour To Short Of Layover At Paris CDG?
Just booked a Flying Blue award flight for September 2024 from Amsterdam to Dulles.
The flight has a 1 hour layover at Charles De Gaulle (CDG) in Paris.
Is 1 hour too short for a CDG airport layover?
Should I reschedule for a long layover in Pairs of 3 hours to be safe, or stick with this one and hope we can rush through and make our gate in time?
I saw another flight but it had a 7 hours layover in Paris which seems excessive.
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6 Replies
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1:05 seems too short to me.
They’ll start boarding the next flight before you get off the first one and you’ll still have to go through exit immigration and I think also security.
I don’t recall there being a way to get to the 2E departure gates from 2F without passing security, but I might be wrong about that.
Flying AMS-CDG-IAD, you’ll have to go through exit immigration in Paris, since AMS-CDG is intra-Schengen.
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Don’t risk it…go for the longer layover.
CDG is not a pleasant experience!
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My rule of thumb is minimum 2 hours in any large airport.
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The airlines don’t confirm flights if they can’t manage them.
I had a 45-minute layover at LHR and made it fine.
The airports have special lines for transfers.
If you want to be sure, just call the airline and ask what they suggest.
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We just had a 65-minute layover at CDG.
I was a bit nervous, but we made it with time to spare.
And so did our luggage.
But I knew if we missed it there were 2 flights following ours.
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If it were my travels, I would rebook with the longer layover.
I don’t want to be trying to scramble in an international airport.
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