Perhaps I'm jaded but i highly doubt AF's fabulous IT systems can somehow predict that. I also suspect that if I hadn't gotten a bus gate upon arrival of MAN-CDG I would've made the flight itself (my bags being another story), the pfaffing about and stuffing as many people as they could into the first bus certain ly took a good chunk of time.

[1 of 2 bags are still missing, for those interested. Lost bag contractors at DXB T1 are hilarious -- I literally met the guy who had my first bag in a supermarket parking lot and I had to grab my suitcase out of his trunk like some shady drug deal, but that's not purely on AF.]