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Charles de Gaule Continental and US Air are they in the same terminal?

In May my daughter and I are traveling on US Air to CDG and my son on Continental to CDG arriving the same day and about the same time and I wanted to find out if they use the same terminal and if you can recommend a place to meet ie coffee shop. restaurant...as we will not have phones Thank you

Posted by
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CO comes into terminal 2A while US comes into terminal 1. Suggest he meets you at the tourist information kiosk right outside of baggage; I'm pretty sure he'll have to take the bus over to you.

Posted by
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I think Jerry is mistaken. According to both the Aeroports de Paris site and the easycdg site, both US Air and Continental use Terminal 1.

I suggest that you plan to meet at the Brioche Dorée fast food cafe in the public area of Terminal 1. A quote from the Aeroports de Paris site: "Brioche Dorée offers a very wide and varied range of Viennese pastries, sandwiches, tarts and cakes prepared and baked while you wait."

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1078 posts

Just checked today, and US comes into 2D while CO comes into 2A. If you Google "CDG terminal map, you can see where both flights arrive, and, possibly, the RER station area might be where you should meet.

Posted by
9110 posts

Being a bit of an airport freak, I've fiddled around with this issue off and on for several hours.

Using what I consider to be reliable and recent information, I've found that both/either/neither Tim and Jerry are correct. I've even found information that one or the other (I forget which by now) seems to arrive at one terminal and depart from the other. (Don't ask how they tug the flying machines around.)

I can't speak from direct experience since I suspect that I've only used Delta and Air France in and out of Roissy.

However, there are two RER stations on the airport.

Back to the drawing board for a meeting place. Or maybe the lobby of everwhat that hotel is that sits on top of the Terminal 2 RER station (hotel name completely disremembered)?

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Ellen, how about giving us the flight numbers and cities you're traveling from so we can be exact?

If they are actual Continental and USAir flights, then they both should arrive at Terminal 1--just as Tim stated. (Continental from Houston and Newark; USAir from Charlotte and Philadelphia.)

Continental's codeshare out of Dulles is operated by United and it arrives at 2A.

USAir's codeshare out of Dulles is operated by United and it arrives at 2A.

And yes, the Continental and USair's flights out of Dulles are on the same plane.

Posted by
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I came up with the same info as Frank and Tim - that they both come in to Terminal 1.

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Saturday night's UAL flight IAD-CDG arriving Sunday morning went into 2A.

So, Ellen, you might want to have two plans...one if both flights get into Terminal 1, and a backup in case one of the flights is moved.

I've been working on and off in the travel industry for 20 years and have been a pilot since 1980. The proper term when referring to an airline's aircraft is "equipment." An "iron" is slang for a firearm.

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This one says USAir is T1 and Cont is T2D: http://www.paris-cdg.com/airlines.php

This one say that USAir is T1 and Cont is also T1:

http://www.aeroportsdeparis.fr/ADP/en-GB/Passagers/flight-timetable-airline/airline-and-their-terminal/

This one says that (apparently in honor of the Marine Corps Birthday -- 234 years of tradition unhampered by progress) that Cont switched to T1 on Nov 10 last year:
http://www.asiatraveltips.com/news09/1011-ContinentalAirlines.shtml

Here's the score:

Tim wins for getting it right first.
Leslie wins for agreeing with Tim and Frank II.
Steve wins for being Steve.
Frank II wins for unscrambling the code share mess.
Jerry wins for contributing to the code share mess.

I'm going back to fiddle with whatever the single site was that says somebody arrives at one terminal and departs from another.

I've been driving flying machines since the first half of the 60's and never heard 'iron' used that way either.

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Thank you to all that have sent me their comments...I am thinking now that I will have my son call when he check's in to confirm what terminal he will be arriving at and I should do the same for him and hopefully we can agree on a place to meet...looks like it will be either terminal 1 or 2. He is departing from Newark and my daughter and I are leaving from Philadelphia! Jerry mentioned the cafe Brioche Doree in Terminal 1 and I have a feeling that may be a good spot to meet unless we are both arriving in terminal 2, if that is the case does anyone have a good suggestion of a cafe for coffee and breakfast in Terminal 2?