Air France Venice to Paris

Delta, AirFrance and Alitalia are partners in the sky team alliance. If you fly from Venice to Paris you really have no other choice if you fly Delta. I have no particular complaints against AirFrance, or at least not anymore than any other airline. They generally are generous with serving free alcohol on board, which I appreciate.

Compare the prices on Air France vs. flying the leg on EasyJet.com. They fly into either Paris Orly or Paris de Gaulle airports from Venice.

I have not priced flights recently, but have you checked into flying on NorwegianAir through Orlando or Ft. Lauderdale? Their airfares are so low that I could fly to Orlando round trip and come out far ahead of flying the other U.S. "legacy" airlines.

Air France - "pro". We prefer them over all of the partners in the Delta family, Delta included. And, we've flown Venice-to-Paris-to-Seattle using Air France - no issues. Enjoy your vacation in Venice!

Flew AF VCE to CDG to SEA two years ago February. The 7:00am departing VCE was scheduled to arrive CDG at 8:50am and if I recall correctly arrived on time. My AF to SEA was scheduled for a 10:30am departure. While a long walk between gates and I may have had to go through a security check point I made the connection with time to spare and I was limping with a torn hamstring.

The 7:00 departure was not fun. VCE was bottlenecked at the machine to get boarding paper to get past the check point to the counter. Passport wouldn't scan so I used my ticket number.

I should add that I was ticked by Delta and my outbound was operated by Delta via AMS with KLM to VCE. No problem with KLM except for a VCE snow event that kept us on the aircraft for an hour while the Italians tried to plow a path around the aircraft so the busses could come and get us. We arrived VCE early but snow keep departing flights st the gates.

If you are connecting back to the states on Delta, you are going to be stuck with Air France (not that there is anything wrong with them), as trying to use Easy Jet, you will not be protected in the event of a delay. Plus the gates will be fairly close to each other as they are partner airlines.

The Flight Attendants are French and seem classier than most airlines.

AF is our preferred airline.

Check also night train connections via Thello ( train conpany). It might be cheaper. It departs Paris at 7.20 p.m. and arrives Venice at 9.30 a.m. It might also interesting to know that it stops in several interesting cities: Dijon (Fr), Milano, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, Venice (get off at Santa Lucia not Mestre).

As Sam said, when making a connection at CDG on the same day, you should book the whole route with the code-shared airlines. Your luggage will be checked through to the USA and they would put you on a later flight if they had a delay in the first flight. A non-allied carrier like Easy Jet gives you neither of these protections.

We flew Air France from L.A. to Venice (with a stop in CDG/Paris) and then from Rome to L.A. (again with a stop in CDG/Paris). We loved Air France and would fly them again any day. Granted we were able to fly in business class (courtesy of my Alaska Airlines miles) and we flew the new A380 (from LA to Paris & Paris back to LA) but I was impressed with the airline and service.

My only advice is that if you have a tight connection in Paris, know exactly which gate you need to get to and ask the flight attendant for a map of the terminal so you know exactly how to get there. We almost missed our connecting flight to Venice because we were directed to the wrong gate and then had to back track and find the correct gate. We literally had to run to the gate and luckily the crew was waiting for us and shut the door right after we got on board. It was a close call and we studied the map for our return flight so we knew exactly where to go.