Originally Posted by
Duke787
With the usual caveats about YMMV, what would be the recommended time for going DL/AA/UA to AF at YYZ. We won't check a bag to avoid any issues on that front and will be flying J.
I would fly Air Canada on the direct from RDU but it lands at 5pm for the 615pm AF departure and I'm not willing to get that risky (especially because that flight gets canceled fairly often -- I've experienced it first hand), so I'm instead thinking that I'd rather do something like RDU - CLT - YYZ (could do RDU - LGA/JFK/EWR - YYZ on DL/UA but I'm thinking that avoiding NYC would be a good call).
Going via CLT, would land at 315pm so a 3 hour layover -- seems like that should be sufficient?
AC connecting to AF would be a disaster as if the AC plane does actually fly you would have to switch from T1 to T3 and would not be protected. AC flights are very often cancelled or significantly delayed. I would do Delta (RDU>ATL/DTW/LGA/JFK>YYZ) connecting to AF all in T3 as they are both Skyteam and you would be protected by AF if Delta was late.