Update:
I am home, and so is the bike! It was quite a stressful ordeal.
The lesson learned, is don't hire a freight forwarder to manage the shipping from a country NOT in the location you are shipping from.
Longer version:
Plan was to drop off the bike on Monday morning 6 am for the 2 pm flight. When I arrived, the shipping company in Paris said it was missing the French Customs portion of the Airway Bill (AWB) and being 6 am in Paris = 10 pm Sunday Night in Calgary—no chance of getting the AWB fixed in time.
I had a phone number/contact for a Freight forwarder associated with Westjet in CDG (Paris airport). She picked up the phone at 7am, 2hrs before her office opened. She needed to wait until 4 pm to talk with Westjet so that ruled out flying the bike home on the Monday. BUT what she did do was get things rolling for me such as re-scheduling the flight, getting someone that could help me get the French Customs form done.
By Monday 5:30pm I had the correct AWB, French customs clearance, my flight moved to Tuesday, The bikes flight moved to Tuesday, and a commitment to accept my bike at 6:30am Tuesday morning and have it on the plane for 2pm.
Heros:
Clare Bury - Aero Cargo (Freight Forwarder) - CDG
Johan Sourdet - TAF (Customs Clearance) - CDG
WFS - Reception staff. Did everything they could to help.
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