Phoenix - Paris new route

[CWBuff]

Travelers looking to visit the City of Light from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport will soon have another flight option. Beginning May 23, Air France will start offering a new non-stop route from PHX to Charles de Gaulle Airport that will fly three times a week.

 

[Goyo]

Whaaat? Music to my ears. I hope it’s a long(ish) term deal and not just a temporary one leading up to the Olympics. Whatever, will check that out tout de suite !

 

[Lewangen]

So many issues going thru CDG airport. Suggest you avoid at all costs. Lost luggage, missed connections and long delays due to airport strikes. Have heard this story 10+times in the last few months…

 

[CWBuff]

Most likely not any different from many other airports. Can't vouch for last couple of months but never had any issues with CdG.
As seems to be the trend of folks on this board - no check-in luggage (travel only with your backpack that fits into overhead bin) and at least 50% split on further transportation (yes fly to Biarritz but then there are those who take train either from CdG proper or Gare de Montparnasse) - 2 out of 3 (and possibly the 3rd one "long delays due to...") may not even apply.
Also, as I have stated in one of previous threads - if anyone ever flew to JFK...why, you dont even HAVE to have a strike going on...
We have nothing to fear but fear itself!
Buen Camino All Y'all

 

[dougfitz]

I forget that there are so many wonderful place names in the US. Your headline had me pondering what old route had been discovered and been resurrected from Paris to Santiago!!

 

[dougfitz]

So many issues going thru CDG airport. Suggest you avoid at all costs. Lost luggage, missed connections and long delays due to airport strikes. Have heard this story 10+times in the last few months…

To give balance, my wife and I transited through CDG last year on our way to Lisbon. It clearly suffers from aging security infrastructure at the gates, but otherwise, we had no problems at the time we passed through and our luggage arrived at our destination. There was a short delay because the servicing aircraft was delayed elsewhere on its previous leg.

I don't think it would be uncommon to hear more bad news stories about this, but people are more likely to share those than the far less interesting tales of how everything went well! And on this, sharing one's experience is far more credible than re-telling something where one cannot confirm what happened, when and perhaps why.