Originally Posted by
Flying Machine
I took the train to the airport, used electronic gate access to enter the terminal. Had the special line access for exit immigration imbedded into my boarding pass.
Issue is that T1 is still closed, so every non-ST carrier is using T2A for non-Schengen flights. There is major capacity issue at T2A to the point where they had to control departing passenger flow to both immigration hall and security, even with priority/No.1 Access. So you're just going to end up waiting a very long and slow moving line.
Only good thing is that exit immigration at CDG now allows US/CAN/SIN/AUS and few other passports to use the egates, so that takes around 2min. And you can also bypass the long security line after using the priority lane. So in summary, immigration and security don't take long, the wait is to get into that area. And then you spend 10min walking all the way to the end of the terminal just to access the lousy AC MLL.