How long at the airport do you wait?

[Ms Poppins]

On the return journey from Disney to Beauvais I'm tyring to work out what time to leave.

The flight goes at 22:55 and I think we're approx 90 mins away - so 20:00 would be ok I think.

This would get us to the airport for approx 21:30 - 1.5 hours before flight. Do you think this is doable?

Last year we spent nearly a full morning at CDG waiting on our flight and it seems an absolute waste of time.

How long do you generally spend in the airport before the flight goes?

 

[DLPdaft]

If you're taking a shuttle transfer back to Beauvais, don't the shuttle company decide when they will pick you up?

 

[Ms Poppins]

If you're taking a shuttle transfer back to Beauvais, don't the shuttle company decide when they will pick you up?

Yes, I suppose they would. But last time we left DLP at 8:30am for a 12:05 flight. We were at the airport for about 9:20 and sat about for ages.

Obviously I don't want to risk missing the flight/being late - but I just wondered with Beauvais being a smaller airport if you needed to be there quite so early.

 

[Ware Bears]

I've found the shuttle firm's always told us what time they'll pick us up. I've just looked at our email for last summer and we were picked up at 6pm for a 9:20pm flight from Orly which I think is roughly the same travel time as CDG.

I think we were there just before 7pm, I know it was quite a while until check-in opened but I'd much rather that than be sat in traffic worrying myself sick.

 

[kizzabel]

Beauvais is tiny which is great because you walk in right at the check in desks so you could arrive less then 2 hours before your flight time but I would say your shuttle company will be apprehensive about this as it is a longer journey and has the potencial for more traffic issues but I think it will depend on the day and their guess on how busy the roads will be (if its during holidays, midweek/weekend, a bad time of day to travel those routes, road works etc.).

But being a tiny airport its also a woeful place to be waiting as the shop isnt big and theres a lack of seating, boredom sets in fast!

RS transports did change our collection time for us before - they normally collect us at 6.30pm but stretched it out to 7.30pm and we made it in loads of time. The gates (& security) are just to the left of check in so no mad sprint if you are pushed for time.

 

[Ms Poppins]

Beauvais is tiny which is great because you walk in right at the check in desks so you could arrive less then 2 hours before your flight time but I would say your shuttle company will be apprehensive about this as it is a longer journey and has the potencial for more traffic issues but I think it will depend on the day and their guess on how busy the roads will be (if its during holidays, midweek/weekend, a bad time of day to travel those routes, road works etc.).

But being a tiny airport its also a woeful place to be waiting as the shop isnt big and theres a lack of seating, boredom sets in fast!

RS transports did change our collection time for us before - they normally collect us at 6.30pm but stretched it out to 7.30pm and we made it in loads of time. The gates (& security) are just to the left of check in so no mad sprint if you are pushed for time.

That's what I was thinking....

I'll check with the transport company, undecided yet between shared shuttle with RS Transports and Ezyshuttle - Ezyshuttle were outstanding from CDG last year, and I'm tempted to pay a bit more for them as there service had been so good. Sore head time