Aug 16, 2021, 10:40 am
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
Consolidated CDG connection time/logistics/lounge - UA back in Term 1, new *A lounge
Jul 2, 2022, 7:41 am
#76
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As to Gold Track, see the response immediately above your post.
Jul 2, 2022, 8:14 am
#77
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Does anyone know how early the check in counters at CDG open? I have a 9:15AM flight that boards at 8:25AM, and with the strike, I'm worried about chaos at the airport. Will desks be open 3-4 hours in advance like in the US?
Also, I'm *G in J, so will have access to Gold Track. My partner has no status, but will be in J...does Premier Access get them access to Gold Track?
Also, I'm *G in J, so will have access to Gold Track. My partner has no status, but will be in J...does Premier Access get them access to Gold Track?
good luck transiting to the airport. I’d read the strikes affected travel this past week but I optimistically presumed they were over. I’ll be traveling in a few weeks myself.
Jul 17, 2022, 2:48 am
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Last edited by Samogitian; Jul 17, 2022 at 2:56 am
Jul 17, 2022, 9:26 am
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I am in the Air Canada lounge right now. Virtually nobody is wearing masks in the airport except me (I normally don't wear masks, but with this mass of humanity, all sorts of nasty stuff is doubtless going around, plus it hides my scowl). The lounge is completely run down and broken. Screaming spawn, bad food (should have loaded up on the food in Vilnius, I guess, and that tiny lounge isn't much to write home about). Here in CDG we have awful looking mystery meat, a bad selection of drinks, coffee from thermoses, awful lighting, empty magazine racks, outdated decor, inadequate bathrooms. For godssakes, some pain au chocolat would have been a nice touch. But no.
The staff is always huddled up in the back kitchen, I was mistaken by two passengers as staff, asking me where they could get water.
Jul 17, 2022, 9:35 am
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Interesting contrast of photos. The first one with the broken machines, for some reason made me feel that the lounge was just way outdated. However the photo above provides a better preview
Jul 17, 2022, 10:04 am
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It's pretty outdated lounge, compared to MLL FRA. But I think all non-AF lounges at CDG are pretty bad, including the *A lounge in T1. (Maybe CX one might be good but I have not been).
Jul 17, 2022, 10:24 am
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Unless you're flying La Premiere, you won't go wrong just assuming that literally every aspect of the CDG experience will suck.
Jul 17, 2022, 11:14 am
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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.
Enjoyed a nice few hours in the star alliance lounge drinking French champagne and at that time the food was quite nice
Depending on one’s experience not all is bad..
Last edited by Flying Machine; Jul 17, 2022 at 11:19 am
Jul 17, 2022, 11:31 am
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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.
Jul 17, 2022, 12:34 pm
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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.
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.
Jul 17, 2022, 1:30 pm
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Any recent reports on arriving to CDG for morning departures (in my case 9.15 SFO) in terms of security and immigration lines and times? It's always early and hate to be super early as the poor MLL doesn't even open til 7.30....and usually often a bit late...
Jul 17, 2022, 2:35 pm
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It’s usually very quick from my experience.
Jul 17, 2022, 2:51 pm
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The CX lounge in 2A is excellent and you can use it when flying BA too. Also the QR lounge in T1 is very good. But I can't think of any others at CDG that are at that level. Just AF, CX and QR.
Jul 17, 2022, 7:13 pm
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https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_...ic-lounge.html