Boarding pass for UA-AF connection
May 22, 2024, 7:56 am
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Only 1 hour 10 minutes for your connection? If you're arriving CDG, you have a Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 connection, and if your connecting flight is within the EU, you'll have to clear immigration and customs. I hope you have a backup planned if you miss the connection. And make sure the UA agent tags your checked bag to your final destination. There won't be time to get it at baggage claim in CDG and recheck it.
May 22, 2024, 8:36 am
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I haven't been to GVA for several years, but I have connected there in the past. It's a very easy airport to navigate. You will need to clear immigration to enter the Schengen Zone, but even if you had checked bags you wouldn't need to retrieve them at GVA.
Last edited by JPG3392; May 22, 2024 at 8:41 am Reason: Revised reply after re-reading original post.
May 22, 2024, 3:07 pm
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May 22, 2024, 3:16 pm
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That is how it has worked for me - you just need to wait till then, but you should be able to check in then with the AF PNR. Get inflight WiFi so as not to wait till you land.
May 22, 2024, 3:55 pm
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Just boarded first flight. BP still unavailable thru either UA or AF app. Flight delayed so connection will be dicey already even if I had a BP. Oh well I guess.
May 22, 2024, 4:06 pm
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While we've now become accustomed to online check-in and mobile boarding passes, it used to be quite common not to be able to get an onward BP except at the transfer desk of the connecting airport. This is why many airports (outside the US) have a large bank of transfer counters airside. Unfortunately, I can't speak to GVA, having never transferred there, except to note it's a pretty compact airport. At a minimum, be sure to bring a print of your itinerary, as that will typically suffice to clear any passport or security checks if there's no transfer desk.
May 22, 2024, 4:29 pm
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Have you tried contacting LX? I'm not familiar with the schedule, but I would assume that both AF and LX have several flights daily between GVA and CDG.
May 22, 2024, 4:36 pm
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Will eu261 or similar rule protect you when your first flight is late? I’m sure many pax on your flight will have missed connections that will result in an automatic rebooking :-)
May 22, 2024, 4:53 pm
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May 23, 2024, 5:00 am
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Ok so to wrap a bow on this, I made the connection, though it was very close due to delay. Airport is tiny which worked in my favor.
I was able to get a boarding pass via the AF app while waiting in line for immigration. And thank goodness I did, because I needed to reclear security after immigration but before the transfer desk or any airline personnel, and that required a scannable BP. I am sure it would have somehow got sorted without one, but it would certainly would have caused me to miss the connection.
So alls well that ends well, but still odd to me that the tech doesnt work for this.
I was able to get a boarding pass via the AF app while waiting in line for immigration. And thank goodness I did, because I needed to reclear security after immigration but before the transfer desk or any airline personnel, and that required a scannable BP. I am sure it would have somehow got sorted without one, but it would certainly would have caused me to miss the connection.
So alls well that ends well, but still odd to me that the tech doesnt work for this.
May 23, 2024, 6:12 am
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Ok so to wrap a bow on this, I made the connection, though it was very close due to delay. Airport is tiny which worked in my favor.
I was able to get a boarding pass via the AF app while waiting in line for immigration. And thank goodness I did, because I needed to reclear security after immigration but before the transfer desk or any airline personnel, and that required a scannable BP. I am sure it would have somehow got sorted without one, but it would certainly would have caused me to miss the connection.
So alls well that ends well, but still odd to me that the tech doesnt work for this.
I was able to get a boarding pass via the AF app while waiting in line for immigration. And thank goodness I did, because I needed to reclear security after immigration but before the transfer desk or any airline personnel, and that required a scannable BP. I am sure it would have somehow got sorted without one, but it would certainly would have caused me to miss the connection.
So alls well that ends well, but still odd to me that the tech doesnt work for this.
May 23, 2024, 6:48 am
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As others had mentioned, for interlined itinerary, not all airlines have systems that communicate with each other and able to generate BP for another airline's flight. When that communication relationship does not exist, you'll need to have the first coupon consumed before the BP for the second flight can be generated - this is standard. It is weird that GVA security has a BP requirement without a transfer desk nearby before security, though. An itinerary may have sufficed.
May 23, 2024, 8:43 am
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