Originally Posted by
Fabo.sk
If you miss your connection at CDG, you can instead of Re-routing take advantage of your right to Reimbursement of the part of the journey not made. You will simply say to the staff that the journey no longer serves the purpose in relation to the original travel plan, per Article 8 Paragraph 1(a). You will request reimbursement for the part of the journey not made and make your own arrangement.
This will make collecting compensation more difficult though, so you might take that into account when making the decision.
Makes sense, thanks. In this hypothetical instance the compensation would be worth more than the reimbursable amount - but not so much more that sitting at CDG for 9 hours would be preferable to getting the RER to Bercy and jumping on a train.