Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) (French: Aéroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle), also known as Roissy Airport (or just Roissy in French), in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France's largest airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic. It is located within portions of several communes, 25 km (16 mi) to the northeast of Paris. The airport serves as the principal hub for Air France. In 2011, the airport handled 60,970,551 passengers and 512,293 [Jan–Oct] aircraft movements, making it the world's seventh busiest airport and Europe's second busiest airport (after London Heathrow) in...