Charles de Gaulle Airport
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Roissy Airport Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Aéroport de Roissy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Groupe ADP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Paris Aéroport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Paris metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Roissy-en-France, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 8 March 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 119 m / 392 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°00′35″N 002°32′52″E / 49.00972°N 2.54778°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Public transit access | Réseau Express Régional： Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | parisaeroport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport, is the primary international airport serving Paris, the capital city of France. The airport opened in 1974 and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Paris. It is named for World War II leader and French President Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), whose initials form its IATA airport code.
Charles de Gaulle Airport serves as the principal hub for Air France and a destination for other legacy carriers (from Star Alliance, Oneworld and SkyTeam), as well as an operating base for easyJet and Norse Atlantic Airways. It is operated by Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris) under the brand Paris Aéroport.
In 2024, the airport handled 70,290,260 passengers and 466,543 aircraft movements, making it the world's fourteenth busiest airport and Europe's third busiest airport (after Heathrow and Istanbul) in terms of passenger numbers.[4] Charles de Gaulle is the busiest airport within the European Union. In terms of cargo traffic, the airport is the second busiest in Europe, after Frankfurt, handling 1,914,681 tonnes of cargo in 2024.[4] As of 2025, it was the airport served by the second highest number of airlines, after Suvarnabhumi Airport, with 105 airlines operating from it.[5]
Régis Lacote has been the director of the airport since 14 November 2022.[6]
- ^ LFPG – PARIS CHARLES DE GAULLE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 4 September 2025.
- ^ "DECEMBER 2023 AND FULL-YEAR TRAFFIC FIGURES". 16 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "Preliminary world airport traffic rankings released". aci.aero. 13 March 2019. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ a b Moravej, Yuliia (17 July 2025). "What Are the Busiest Airports in the World?". ACI World Insights. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Suvarnabhumi tops global list of airports with most airlines, survey shows". The Nation. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Régis Lacote". Groupe ADP. Retrieved 20 July 2025.