Originally Posted by
Tamino
Air France schedules many connections through CDG which are less than 2 hours. It makes their flight times from point A to point C via point B (CDG) look very competitive but I often wonder how many people actually make these connections.
One assumes that AF is happy with the number of complaints it receives from those misconnected and considers its marketing advantage in offering short en route times more beneficial to them than the damaged incurred by the dissatisfaction of misconnecting passengers.
Skyteam connections, and particularly AF connections have become extremely easy now for several years since they concentrated their operations in 2E/F/G. I have done intra-2F connections in 10 min gate-to-gate and 2F to 2E or reverse in less than 30min. But to come back to OP's case, I would not book this connection as it is way too short. The reason is that the flight AF3802 is a code-share and is operated by EY. And EY is not Skyteam and is leaving from 2A/2C and so from 2E (arrival of NCL flight), this is too risky even with a flight in-time. As other posters have said, try to book an earlier NCL-CDG flight.