Originally Posted by
blairvanhorn
A rambling, poorly written and fairly nonsensical article appeared in Le Parisien (no paywall) yesterday about the long lines at CDG. CDG's director, Marc Houalla, says that the time it takes a passenger to clear immigration controls (PAF) has increased from 20 seconds (!) to around 2 minutes. And check-in is now taking up to 7 times longer depending on destinations ... and that this all means that waits to clear PAF can be around 1.5 hours when the airport is busy (though there is no clear relation established in the article between longer check-in times and 1.5 hour waits to clear PAF, but the journalist from Le Parisien was lazy and apparently let Houalla conflate the two issues).
Houalla also wants us to believe that security check-points have been slowed down enormously because passengers are walking around with huge flasks (over 100ml) of hand sanitizer ... 🙄🙄
Il nous prend vraiment pour des quîches ! And it doesn't look like much will be changing any time soon, at least not according to Houalla, and now we're faced with the Omicron variant. Bonnes fêtes !
Totally ridiculous.
Maybe if they stopped wasting resources running "high risk" passengers from Milan and Stockholm through unnecessary passport control they would have more resources to process overseas travelers... just a wild thought !