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Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), also known as Roissy Airport, is the main international airport serving Paris, the capital of France.Opened in 1974, it is 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]
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.
CPH: Copenhagen Airport railway station, Tårnby, Denmark, located under the airport's Terminal 3; D. DUS: Düsseldorf Airport station, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg railway line (SkyTrain people mover). E. EWR: Newark Liberty International Airport Station, Newark, New Jersey, United States (2 km or 1.2 mi from the airport via monorail) F
The first line, which connects the three airport terminals, train stations, and parking lots, opened on 4 April 2007. The second line, which connects Terminal 2 to two satellite terminals, opened on 27 June 2007. Since 2015, the two lines have been operated by Transdev every day from 4:00 AM to 1:00 AM with bus services running during system ...
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری, pronounced [mehˈrɒn kæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, [2] was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized.
In just days, Kansas City will have a new gateway to the metro area with the opening of the new $1.5 billion single terminal at Kansas City International Airport.
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]