Time needed between separate flights CDG

Air Canada flights are located at Terminal 2A

KLM flights at terminal 2F.

The pedestrian journey times between 2A and 2F is 15 minutes.
If your first flight is on time you will still have more than 2 hours to go through customs and security checks.

If you need more information about CDG Airport you can visit:

https://easycdg.com/

Your trip is in July. No one can tell you today what the restrictions and rules will be in July

As far as the time between flights, I am sure most people here will be asking you if your flights are on separate tickets or on one. If they are separate tickets, give yourself as much time as possible. (I would give myself a day, as I don't like stress/risk and I have had pretty rough experiences with CDG.) If you are on one ticket, Air Canada has a questionnaire that can help you determine health requirements for transiting through to your destination. https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home/book/travel-news-and-updates/2020/covid-19.html#/

Thank you both. I appreciate you taking the time to help.

Traveling through CDG on separate tickets in the same day is just not a great idea.

Consider, your initial flight may not arrive on time, Immigration can easily take from 30 to 90 minutes, you next check in for your outbound flight, then security (which typically takes under 30 minutes), and then on to your departure gate. There are many points at which you could be delayed an undetermined amount of time. If I were to fly from CDG to AMS, I would plan on showing up at CDG about the time you plan on landing.

Just to walk the required circuit with minimal delay would take about 90 minutes, but there are always unknown delays at CDG. You might make it as you have planned, but I would allow no less than 4 to 5 hours between flights.

If these are separate tickets, there is no way I would attempt that.

But if the OP checks in online and has only carry on, couldn't the OP stay airside and simply follow "correspondance", to change flights. I see no reason to have to exit to the public side.

Without checking luggage, it might be possible to stay airside if he is already checked in for the outbound flight and has a seat assignment. But these are not connecting tickets, and there is no guaranteed that staff will allow him to do that.

It sounds like you are on 2 separate tickets. The danger is if you don't make the second flight because your incoming flight to CDG is late (or you have delays within the airport). KLM is under no obligation to accommodate you for the missed flight since they were not responsible for getting you to CDG on time. It's super likely you would be required to buy a new ticket if you missed your flight to Amsterdam A same-day walk-up airfare today for CDG to AMS is $700 on Air France or KLM. Lufthansa (or one of its brands) will fly you to AMS via one of its hubs (FRA, ZRH) for more like $300-$400. So... the question becomes... how big of a gambler are you?

I personally am not a big enough gambler to book that itinerary -- health pass or no health pass -- with a 2.5 hour transit time. BUT, if I already had the sunk cost of purchased tickets without the ability to change or with a big change fee, I would try it and hope for the best. As an aside, I am a big enough gambler to do it on a 4-hour connection time at most airports and have done that multiple times at JFK and Munich.

As for a France health pass with transit, I don't think you need it, but don't take my word for it. I would suggest googling the Paris transit requirements and the Amsterdam entry requirements (focusing on official government sites) to see how they mesh.

Worst case, SNCF runs trains from the airport to Amsterdam.

Due to a last-minute airline schedule change, we had a 70 minute connection in Paris a few years ago — before health checks. And we easily made it, thanks to a couple of factors.

First, our plane landed at 6:10 am, so the airport was fairly empty. This is key, and of course is out of your control. But if your plane is landing early, this should help your confidence.

We also got seats as far forward in the plane as possible, so we could disembark quickly. We used the bathrooms on the plane before landing, so we wouldn’t have to stop in the airport. We had printed out a map of the airport and knew exactly where to go. We had our boarding passes for the next flight. And we had only carry-on bags, so we just had to walk to the next gate. It seems we did have to pass through a customs line & passport control but both moved quickly.

I don’t know how health checks will affect this process but hopefully it’s minimal. Good luck!

True, Betts, true. It looks like that would be around 100-150 euro (depending on the train), which would likely be a better choice.

Do not attempt to obtain a pass vaccinal. You do not have the time. Just use the same credentials you used for the initial boarding, your inoculation papers.

Thank you so much, everyone! You have taken the time to be most helpful and I appreciate it!