Originally Posted by
pharma
I see. Thank you for this clarification. When you say "Transit area" does this mean the deplaning/lounge/boarding area specific to my path for boarding the next flight? I have to get my team to Dubai, due to budget constraints, only 2/3 tickets were able to be acquired on non-stop/direct. The third one (that makes a CDG stop) is the one I am worried about.
Theoretically speaking, even with this "transit area" restriction, would one be able to still make it to their connecting flight?
Thanks.
I would not get too caught up in legal definitions. Rather, as with all international travel, you should check TIMATIC for each passenger's routing based on their citizenship and residence. For a US national, resident in the US, traveling tot he UAE with a transit at CDG, here is the TIMATIC readout. The key is that passengers will not be able to leave a very limited physical area and will need to have their onwards boarding passes before they are permitted to board in the US. If any of your people are not US nationals, the answer may be different.
Before booking, I would look at all of the variables because the cost of the air ticket may not be the only cost.
Visa required, except for Passengers transiting through Paris
(CDG), arriving from a non-Schengen Member State with a
confirmed onward ticket for a flight within 24 hours to a
third country which is not a Schengen Member State. They must:
- stay in the international transit area of the airport, and
- have documents required for their next destination.