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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 was opened in 1974, and is located in Roissy-en-France, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of Paris and is named for World War II leader and French President Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), whose initials form its IATA airport code.
The station opened on 30 May 1976, two years after the opening of the airport, as the northern terminal of the SNCF's "Roissy Rail" project (Roissy was the original name of the airport) which would connect the station to Gare du Nord in Paris with trains departing every 15 minutes and making the trip in 19 minutes. [2]
Terminal 2E, Satellite 3 (Hall L) opened in 2005 and Satellite 4 (Hall M) in 2012. A museum opened within the airport in 2013 in Terminal 2E, Hall M. In Orly, a development project voted in 2012 plans to merge the airport's south and west terminals with the construction of an 80,000 m2 building to create one great terminal. [7]
Parts of the Charles de Gaulle International Airport (France's largest and busiest airport) are located in Mauregard, including Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. The large airport property (over 8,000 acres (3,200 ha)) straddles land in three départements and six communes, with the Roissy-en-France commune providing its alternate name of Roissy Airport.
English: Map of the terminal area of Berlin-Tegel airport. This current layout differs strongly from the expansion that was originally planned in the late 1960s, see: TXL - initally planed expansion Deutsch: Siehe: Terminalplan TXL
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Routing: CDG Airport Terminals 2E/2F – CDG Airport Terminals 2A/2C/2D – CDG Airport Terminal 1 – Porte Maillot/Palais des Congrès – Etoile/Champs-Elysées – Eiffel Tower; Travel Time: 45 to 60 minutes; Frequency: every 30 minutes; Hours of operation: 05:30 to 23:30
This project could have two possible purposes: to serve Roissy airport from Paris (as an alternative to the CDG Express); or to be the beginning of a western line linking Creil to Meaux, Marne-la-Vallée and Melun. It has also been proposed to complement the Interconnexion Est with an LGV Interconnexion Sud or LGV Interconnexion Ouest.