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Oh come on. I fly through Europe twice to three times a year. The transfer from Charles de Gaulle is a nightmare worse than any major US airport. They literally
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Oh come on. I fly through Europe twice to three times a year. The transfer from Charles de Gaulle is a nightmare worse than any major US airport. They literally make you leave the security area and go through security for simple transfers if you're coming from the states. That's shit design right there. A lot of international connections are terrible and knowing which airports/airlines do a good job is important. Its not a US thing.
Also, what a shit prize naming a airport after someone is. No one likes airports. de Gaulle deserves better.
- icelancer 11y agoAgreed. CDG is worse than almost any US airport. SEA is up there with the worst in the world though. It's only tolerable for me because I have NEXUS/Global Entry/TSA PRE.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoSEA? I've never had a problem with customs/immigration, 5 minutes tops. Security getting in is a long line but nothing horrible. All in all, a dream compared to Beijing capital airport.
- Symbiote 11y agoA difference is that the USA requires people transferring through one of its airports to get a visa, or a visa waiver (for Europeans etc). And to queue up and go through customs. This is very unusual. Paris might make security a hassle, but they won't look at their passport.
- wiredfool 11y agoHeathrow too. I've made international transfers through terminal 5 and had to go through both immigration and security. And Heathrow is absolutely crazy about liquids. No cough syrup for you, because it's impossible to find bottles of it smaller than 100ml.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoBritish Airways scheduled me on a flight from US with an 45 minute layover in Heathrow. I don't know how the heck they expected me to make the connecting flight considering I had to go through customs, then security again, and go halfway across the airport. Their system even flagged me as "showed up too late for the flight" the second time I went through security.
- sampo 11y ago> The transfer from Charles de Gaulle is a nightmare You just picked the worst airport in Europe as the example.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoHeathrow isn't any better. Turns out most high volume airports are shitshows for international transfers.
- kalleboo 11y agoI've only had good transfer experiences at high-volume Asian airports (Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong)