Short connection window at CDG.

It'll likely be close but if you happen to miss it there will be another flight pretty soon most likely.

CDG is a far better airport NOW than when I flew through there 15 years ago. The new terminals are beautiful. As far as your connection, Your DL flight should arrive in Terminal 2E. Air France flies out of terminals 2A - 2F - I'm not sure which is used for the Marseille connection; perhaps someone on the board has made that flight.

Your luggage will be checked through to Marseille so you will not have to recheck it; you'll just have to do passport control & security as you enter the boarding are of the terminal.

Depending on whether your flights have a bus gate, you could have a bus going from a remote stand to 2E when arriving from ATL... so that may factor into your time.

If your Delta flight is on time - and perhaps even early with the tailwind you get - you can make this flight. I would take some "clothes" in my carry-on just in case, as my concern would be whether your luggage makes the flight. I've always made my close connections (Knock on wood!) but twice my luggage did not make the connection... so might want to make some plans just to be safe. (We learned that one the hard way - 4 days without clothes!). International connections often ask for a 2-hr window to insure luggage will make the connection.

As per the previous posting, I'd be eyeballing what are the NEXT flights out of CDG to Marseille on this day just so you know your options. Print it out and take it with you! Better to be armed with knowledge and other choices. Good Luck!

Ciao,
Ron

Thanks to both of you, that's a bit of a load off. We have chosen to use carry on luggage only for this trip so losing luggage will not be an issue. Unless of course you count last time in Barcelona when they lost my luggage between hotel check in and our room.

I have never missed a connection before, on the off chance that I do, is Air France pretty good about putting me on another plane?

Thanks again!

I've been wondering about this, too.

My flight back from Spain (Barcelona) has a tight connection through CDG - a little over an hour. Both flights are on Air France, so I'm thinking we should be OK. I figure if worse comes to worst, and we miss the connection, there are other flights they can put us on...and if we get lucky, maybe they'll have to wait until the next day and we'll end up with in day in Paris (oh, the humanity...I'd be back to work a day later).

Hey - it could happen!

In November my wife and I flew Air France (via CDG to and from Italy). The trip back was from Verona - CDG - SEA. We had about an hour layover in CDG and used every minute of it! Having already been through the airport on the way in, we had a little bit more familiarity with the layout and what to expect.
When we landed from Verona, it wasn't at the airport terminal. It was out at one of their 'satellites'. We had to shuttle in which took something like 20-25 minutes. Then we had to walk through the many hallways, leave the secured area, go to the security line for our outbound (to SEA) flight, get stopped for a bit more thorough bag checking (carry-on only for both of us), head down the hallway, catch another shuttle which was conveniently just leaving as we boarded, get to the outbound satellite, and then hop our plane.
So it can be done with everything on time (or early), but you definitely don't want to waste any time if you land at a satellite and potentially depart from another.