Our airports

Primary advantages

Traffic

Over two-thirds of the traffic at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is point to point. Furthermore, the airport is ideally located to attract connecting traffic which feeds the long-haul traffic, since Paris is less than a two-hour flight from all major Western European cities. The connection rate at the airport was 30.6% in 2018.

The airlines

Terminal 1 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle handles international and Schengen traffic, and includes Star Alliance member airlines.
Terminal 2 handles international and Schengen traffic, including Air France, its SkyTeam alliance partners and the airlines belonging to Oneworld alliance.
Terminal 3 mainly handles charter and low-cost traffic.

The main airlines operating at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport are Air France, easyJet, Delta Airlines, Vueling et Lufthansa.

The runways

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport has an extremely efficient runway system with two sets of parallel runways whose physical layout allows independent use. For each of the two sets, one runway is used for takeoffs and the other for landings, thus limiting the noise impact caused by traffic.

Access to the airport

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is served by a network of road and rail transport which makes it accessible for passengers, cargo carriers and airlines' employees operating at the airport. This network places the airport at the forefront of intermodality.
CDGVAL, the automated rail shuttle connects the airport's terminals, the RER/TGV train stations and the long-term car parking.
In addition, in 2023 the French State will launch a rail link between Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and central Paris: CDGExpress.

Investment program

Paris-Charles de Gaulle, a connection infrastructure like no other in Europe with land reserve and no runway restrictions:
• New Groupe ADP headquarters inaugurated in 2016 within the airport,
• Merger of international satellites of Terminal 1,
• Development of cargo activities,
Land reserve for Terminal 4.

Primary advantages

Regulatory constraints

Traffic at Paris-Orly Airport is subject to two regulatory constraints:
Night curfew from 23:30 to 6:00
Annual limit of 250,000 takeoffs and landings (Order of 6 October 1994 by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Tourism). In 2016, the number of aircraft movements totalled 234,453.

Traffic

Traffic at Paris-Orly Airport is almost entirely point to point.

Over the past ten years, the development of traffic at Paris-Orly has been less favourable than at Paris-Charles de Gaulle due to the annual cap of 250,000 slots and to the impact of competition in the domestic market from the TGV high-speed train services, particularly the TGV  Sud-Est and the TGV Est that serve southeastern and eastern France respectively.

The airlines

The runways

Paris-Orly Airport has three runways with a programming capacity of 76 movements per hour in 2018. Runway 1 is suitable for wide-bodied
aircraft and can accommodate diverted A380s. In 2016, there were 234,453 aircraft movements at Paris-Orly airport.

The airport has 104 aircraft parking stands, including more than fifty in contact with the terminals.

Access to the airport

Investment program

Increase the capacity of Paris-Orly to accommodate up to 32.5 million passengers in 2020:
• New international boarding lounge East Pier opened in 2016,
• Junction building (Orly 3) between Orly 1-2 and Orly 4,
• New baggage handling.