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[quote=Anonymous]Just did this yesterday on Air France, with a scheduled 1 hour 45 minute layover at CDG. The risk is that the first flight leaves late. And that, at a big airport, your next flight might be at some godforsaken gate that takes a bus to get to. (Both of which happened).

My flight from Switzerland was delayed on the tarmac and landed 30 minutes late. Then there was a delay to park, and then it took some time to disembark. Then I had to switch to a non-Schengen terminal, which involves going through passport control. The line was long and the machine I was assigned was messed up and was basically only working for every other person so it caused another bottleneck. Then my flight to the U.S. was assigned a gate that required a bus to get to, and there was a huge line for that. I got on the third bus to arrive (they were coming about 5 minutes apart). By the time I managed to get to my gate, it was about 10 minutes before it closed. And of course I learned there and then that the flight was delayed an hour, so I had both the unpleasant stress of that experience plus a delay.

It’s luck of the draw, though. I had the same layover on the way there and zero hiccups, so it was plenty of time. [/quote]

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