Charles de Gaule airport sucks. I say this not to compare it say on a scale of 1 to Juba airport bad. I say this in an opposite-of-a-Hertz-ad kinda way. Even if you go like a business pro, you will inevitably be slowed by delinked terminals, long long LONG walks down narrow walk ways under construction with signs that have arrows pointing down to mean "walk on" and on and on. I will now ease up on Dulles' Mad Max vehicles.
I asked a person today where to go to check my bag once I got my boarding pass and she said, "oh, you are in the wrong terminal." I refused to believe her and asked another person, who pointed me down a long long LONG walkway but at least it was in the same terminal. And why do they need to check boarding pass and passport as you are going through security? I don't mean to enter security. They do that too, but as you're trying to remove belts, shoes, etc, you also have to use a third arm and hand it over. Sigh.
The fun part of CDG is trying to change terminals or even sub terminals. Try to change from 2A to 2F, I dare you. And is that 2F section L? M? Z? I think it's section WTF. Oh, and they like to change gates a lot. I passed out in a chair next to my gate on my way to Abidjan and woke up to find a completely different flight leaving from the gate and ran down a long long LONG walkway to find the list of gates and then walked some more to my new gate. I watched about 20 Vietnamese business women and men miss their flight because of this. The worst part was watching these diminutive people being screamed at by the gate attendant. And unlike NY or DC, there's probably only one flight to Saigon a day...
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