CX Onward Connection in CDG
 

I will be flying CX from HKG to Paris CDG (Terminal 2A) and have a separate booking on BA from CDG (Terminal 2C) to LHR. Terminals 2A and 2C appear to be within the same terminal complex. My transfer time is 1 hour 35 minutes.

I have two questions:

1. Can CX check my baggage through to my final destination with BA, even though the flights are on separate bookings?
2. Will I need to go through immigration at CDG? If I already have my onward boarding pass and CX agrees to check my bags through to my final destination (given that LHR is a non-Schengen destination), would I be able to transfer airside instead?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You would have to speak to CX but I don't think it's likely, most airlines have stopped through checking bags on separate tickets. Also that's a very tight connection to be doing on separate tickets, let alone with checked baggage - with immigration and baggage pick up, you'll be very tight trying to meet the bag drop off times for BA at CDG which I believe closes 1 hour before departure, only leaving you 35 minutes to deplane, go through immigration and baggage reclaim and then down to bag drop - and that's if your flight lands on time/early.

If you can, I'd change your BA flight to a later one to give yourself more of a buffer, 3 or 4 hours.

CX does still check through luggage on seperate tickets upon request as a courtesy as long as there is an interline agreement in place. You should be able to transfer airside without an issue wihtout passing through immigration, and 1:35 should be sufficient. However, it's a little strange to me to be flying to LHR via CDG given there are a minimum of 5 nonstops on CX a day?

Thanks! I have to fly that day, and J class is fully booked on all flights to LHR. CX flight capacity is very limited due to the conflict in the Middle East...

Fingers crossed!

I've done this a few times - last time was a year ago.

CDG - HKG return is (or was) so much cheaper than LHR - HKG. Cathay will check bags through and you don't need to go through immigration unless you walk the wrong way, which we have done! CDG can be confusing.

BA don't check through, so on the way *to* HKG from LHR via CDG you'll need to collect and re-check luggage.

Just to confirm some actual experience.
CX has the policy to check through on separate tickets for OW airlines. They might also do it for most non-OW airlines but their updated text does not make it a commitment.
SO no worries for HKG-CDG-LHR. Your bags will be checked though and you do not have to clear immigration at CDG.
The reverse is not true per BA policy.

I did this a couple of weeks ago.

1. Yes, and they will give you the BA boarding pass as well.
2. No, you don’t need to clear immigration. You can transfer airside and you don’t need to collect and recheck your bags in Paris.

Only caveat is that I had a longer connection when I did this. 95 minutes is probably on the tighter side in case of any delays I don’t know how they would handle things.

2AC share the same security checkpoint and are connected airside. Despite it nominally being two terminals (2A and 2C) it is for all intents and purposes one terminal. You will be fine with a 95 minute connection.