Paris morning rush hour and CDG

Flying to another Schengen country?

If not, you may have an unpleasant surprise, or at the least a nail biting experience until seated on the plane

Sorry! I forgot to say we are flying direct from CDG to Seattle. Don’t know what schengen is. A typo?

Schengen is not a typo. It is the treaty which eliminated border checks within the 26 European countries which are part of the Schengen Area.

If you are travelling within the Area it is like going from US state to state with no border controls.

In your case it doesn't apply. You should be at the airport 3 hours ahead for a trip to North America.

Hoping for a 30 minute trip is brave.

Google, which is always optimistic for road journeys, is currently saying that this journey on a quiet Sunday morning would take 35 minutes. I would double that for a Monday rush hour and maybe add a bit more. You need to be at CDG 3 hours before your flight, so you need to change your pick up time. At that time of day, it will probably be quicker by public transport and you will be going against the flow.

I would leave if taking a taxi from the Marais at 6:30 or 6:45 to ensure I was at the airport three hours ahead of my 10:30 departure.

Sometimes the toughest part of the trip is getting off the A1 and onto the airport access road for the terminals. There is nothing more frustrating than basically being at the airport but not able to get to your terminal.

Hope you have had a nice visit.

It is not supposed to rain tomorrow morning but it is raining now in Paris and rain will easily add 30 minutes to the en route airport time. I would urge you to change your pickup time to 06h30 and give yourself a bit of a margin in the event of the unknown.

I agree with everyone else but particularly Kim. There have been a couple of times when I almost wanted to get out and walk at the end but you really can’t. I’ve had Terminal 2E in sight and had it take 15 minutes to creep the final few hundred yards.

I had a very quick trip yesterday (Saturday) AM. I left my hotel in the 7th at 6:15 ( well the taxi was early by a couple of minutes so maybe 6:12) and was thru airline bag drop, departure immigration, security and at my gate area by 7:15. But it was a dry Sat, no traffic, hit no crowds at any of the normal choke points in the airport and enjoyed a nice breakfast, got in a mile walk for my activity tracker and had time to people watch.

We have often zipped to CDG and then had it take 15/20 minutes for the last couple of miles as it is a parking lot into the terminals as so many flights leave early. Definitely get the cab for 6:30 -- you probably get there a little before 7:30 but you might just squeak. We have used every second of 3 hours at CDG more than once and a couple of times didn't even have time for a pit stop before boarding the plane (and other times we have had an hour to spare). American airlines was advising 4 hours a couple of years ago.

You don't want to cut this fine as the consequences are: 1. miss a very expensive flight and buy a walk up one way ticket for the next one (travel insurance won't cover this ). 2. have extra time and have to have an extra cup of coffee and read your book. I always opt for 2.

we have a flight leaving at 7:20 a.m. from CDG and we are leaving from 1st ARR district and going to CDG...we are planning on leaving via taxi at about 4:45a, hoping to arrive at CDG by 5:45a to check...we are flying to Israel from there...is that enough time to get to CDG at that time of the morning and we were told to be at the airport 2 hours before...but I've read that 3 hours before the flight on this forum...

Thanks to all of you !! We got the G7 app and left at 6:30. The taxi was waiting when we walked out. Perfect way to go to CDG. Highly recommended!!