Paris connection

Passport control in Paris, customs in Venice. Unless you have goods to declare customs is just a formality. Walk through the nothing to declare doorway.

Since this is on separate tickets please make sure to allow enough time between flights for delays.

I would like to emphasise what Rocket said. Easyjet will not wait if you are late.
Print out your Easyjet boarding card in advance. If you have hold luggage, you will need to pick this up from the luggage carousel and then hand it in again at Easyjet check-in.
You need to be at the gate 30 minutes before departure. If the first flight is late, you are delayed in immigration at Paris or either airline changes flight times between now and next June, hard luck. The money you paid for the second flight will be lost and you will have to buy a new ticket.

Forgive me for piggybacking, but I have a similar question. I've been flown into/out of CDG a few times including just this last May, and a few years ago I did a connection home from Berlin via CDG back to the US which worked well. But, things do change at airports over time.

I'm planning a trip to Poland and the Ukraine next spring and have already booked an award ticket into/out of CDG. The trip is far from firm yet, and I am looking flight connection options, the two obviously ones being:

Fly from US to CDG, on to Kiev; fly home out of Warsaw to CDG, home to US same day
or
Fly from US to CDG, onto Warsaw; fly home out of Kiev to CDG, home to US same day

In my understanding, because Ukraine is not Schengen that when I connect in CDG to or from Kiev, I only go through security at CDG and not passport control, right? But Poland is Schengen, so I would go through security AND passport control to or from Warsaw. (Only carry-on bags, not checked bags.) As of right now, it seems I'd fly into terminal 2 and both Kiev and Warsaw flights also go out of terminal 2; not sure about flying home to the US.

Is it better to go one way or another, assuming about the same amount of connection time in CDG? I am booking these Europe tickets separately and know the risks - have done this before but mostly at AMS, though.

Actually, it looks like flying out of Kiev to CDG and home to the US, I'd have about three hours to connect and just over three hours flying in from Warsaw instead. I guess I'd worry more about this connection because if I miss the connection, I am stuck in Paris maybe that night, but flying from the US into CDG, there are plenty of other flights I could get to Kiev and especially to Warsaw, even if I'd have to buy them at full fare.

Any thoughts? (No, I don't want to spend a night in Paris on either end.)

Thanks!

I have no recent experience with CDG but there are scattered reports of long lines at passport control. Given the long haul flight I would elect to schedule a minimum of 4 hours between flights. Often I will schedule a night in between flights.

Looking at the United timetable for a random day in June it looks like the nonstop gets in to CDG at 10:35. From Easyjet the departures are at 9:00, 10:45 and 21:35. So if you’re on the nonstop your choice is a long layover or an overnight stay in Paris.

Edit: This is for OP.

I agree with Rocket about flight timing. After Terminal 3 at FCO burned down a few years ago, and last year my flight from DTW to JFK was cancelled after boarding was completed, I try to get to Europe in one flight, spend the night, and take a shorter flight the next day.

Easy jet has a @ 1330 to Venice. We will carry on the United flight and check our bags on Easy Jet. That’s 3 hours between flights. It’s pushing it I know. Opinions?

Zoe, that's why I like to fly directly to Europe to start my vacation if I can! I am wary about missed connections in the US that could mess up the start of my vacation, even if I am not trying to connect in CDG!

I've taken easyJet before, but I'd prefer one of the "major" airlines given the choice, unless there's a huge price difference. easyJet and the other budget airlines tend to have hidden fees for things like baggage check and are very strict about their stated requirements, whereas the major airlines seem to be more lax, so I always add a little to any easyJet fare I see when comparing it to other airlines.

As for the risk of connecting to a separate flight (CDG or anywhere else), Richard: whenever I do this, I always look at my contingency plan. What if I missed the connecting flight? In your case, you'd most likely be able to get another flight on to Venice paying the full last-minute fare, which could be steep - but probably not the end of the world, right? At leas know what to expect if it happens - and accept the consequence if you miss the connection and be done with it.

If there was another flight just an hour later than the easyJet flight, you'd probably take that now - but if not, what's you other option there? If not three hours, when is the next flight on to Venice? Six hours instead of three? These are the kinds of things I look at when making a judgement call on the risk of missing a connection.

Sometimes travel insurance will cover the cost of a missed connection like this.

You could buy your own "travel insurance" by buying a ticket on a later flight. If you find one of those crazy cheap easyJet flights (do they still exist?) this far in advance, it might be worth booking one. But then you probably lose the cost benefit of booking a cheap flight now.