I have just returned from 3 weeks in England and France. On the whole , it was a great trip. However, there were problems at different airports.
We flew easyjet from London to Montpelier, France. When we got to Gatwick Airport, the bag check procedure was completely automated. There were people to help, but not enough. We had not paid the fee for checking the bags, and had to go to a woman who checked our info and passports completely. And we had to pay to credit card here. My advice for travelers on Easyjet, is pay the baggage charge before going to the airport.
The second part of our problem here, is that the easyjet gate was the furthest away from everything. And, you go though a shopping mall to even get to the gates at all.
Our second bad experience was at Charles de Gaulle terminal 2. This is a huge terminal, there must be 50 different airlines that are here. We were traveling on British Airways, we expected to find them, no problem. But, you must check the board to find where your airline's checkin gate is. As it happened, BA was gate 9, and this was downstairs, not on the main level.
And, it seems that everyone in the world has lots of luggage. The halls were crowded in the airport.
The actual people at BA were very helpful. We have no complaints about them at all.
My advice to people in Paris who are flying home from London, is take the Eurostar the day before, or the morning if you can do it. You will have a more comfortable trip on the Eurostar.
Of course if we had been flying home direct from CDG, we would not have had all these problems.