How to prepare for your plane trip?

Prepare your luggage, anticipate checks ... Discover our advice and services that will facilitate your journey to start your vacation peacefully. During the holidays or during a long weekend, do not be surprised by the high traffic and the strengthening of security checks: plan to come a little earlier at the airport.





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Prepare your luggage
In order to prepare your trip as well as possible, it is important to know the rules concerning your hold and cabin baggage: number of bags allowed, maximum weight, regulatory dimensions, prohibited contents, etc.
Our advice for packing your luggage

Your registration
Check-in is one of the essential steps in order to get on board. When, how and where? We give you the keys to a check-in with complete peace of mind.

Our advice to facilitate your registration
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Save time at border controls
Border controls are a sovereign procedure under the authority of the Directorate of the Border Police.



Learn more about travel documents
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Prepare for your passage through security
Find out about the right actions, as well as prohibited items and products, to facilitate the inspection of your baggage before boarding.

Our advice on security screening



Accessibility and assistance 


Paris Aéroport is committed to a corporate social responsibility approach by offering ever more services to passengers according to their disability.


Personal assistance services
Paris Aéroport provides assistance to passengers according to their disability
Before leaving
Prepare your departure to travel in all serenity. Find out about the assistance services available at our airports
Contact
Need special assistance, a question before your departure? Find the useful contacts of Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly Airports



Traveling with the family


Are you planning to travel with your family? Is your child going to travel alone? Find all our tips and advice for a peaceful trip.


Traveling with a child
Taking a plane with a child: our practical advice!
Traveling with a baby
How do I travel with a baby? Our advice and services for a pleasant trip!
Child traveling alone
Your child is traveling alone: prepare well for their flight for a trip with complete peace of mind


Who does what at the airport?

Roles and responsibilities explained
Diiscover our zone-by-zone breakdown of the airport, so you know what happens and who is in charge at every step along the way in your journey.
Find out more