Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
international airport serving Paris, France
Aéroport de Roissy
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport, is the primary international airport serving Paris, the capital of France. The airport opened in 1974 and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of the city centre of Paris. It is named after World War II leader and French president Charles de Gaulle, whose initials form its IATA airport code. It is one of two airports to serve the greater Paris area, the other being Orly Airport.
Charles de Gaulle Airport serves as the principal hub for Air France, as well as an operating base for easyJet. 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 London–Heathrow and Istanbul) in terms of passenger numbers. 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. As of 2025, it was the airport served by the second highest number of airlines, after Suvarnabhumi Airport, with 105 airlines operating from it.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q46280. VIAF identifies the subject as 143865552. The Library of Congress control number is n85137407. Authority coordinates are 49.010, 2.548. 1 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2024 and 2025.
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