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Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle
Roissy Airport
Aeroports de Paris logo.svg
Aeroport de Roissy.JPG
IATA: CDG – ICAO: LFPG
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner/Operator Aéroports de Paris
Serves Paris
Location 25 km (16 mi) NE of Paris
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 392 ft / 119 m
Coordinates 49°00′35″N 002°32′52″E / 49.00972°N 2.54778°E / 49.00972; 2.54778 (Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)Coordinates: 49°00′35″N 002°32′52″E / 49.00972°N 2.54778°E / 49.00972; 2.54778 (Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
Website http://www.aeroportsdeparis.fr/ADP/en-gb
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08L/26R 4,215 13,829 Asphalt
08R/26L 2,700 8,858 Concrete
09L/27R 2,700 8,858 Asphalt
09R/27L 4,200 13,780 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft movements 559,812
Passengers 61,851,998
Source: French AIP[1]
Airports Council International[2][3]

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 main 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)[1] to the north-east of Paris. The airport serves as the principal hub for Air France.

In 2008, Charles de Gaulle Airport handled 60,851,998 passengers[3] and 559,812 aircraft movements[2], making it the world's fifth busiest airport in terms of passengers and Europe's busiest (world's 5th busiest) airport in terms of aircraft movements. In terms of cargo traffic, the airport is the busiest in Europe and the world's 6th busiest, having handled 2,280,049 metric tonnes of cargo[4].

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[edit] Location

Charles de Gaulle Airport extends over 32.38 km2 (12.50 sq mi) of land. The choice of this vast area was made based on the limited number of potential relocations and expropriations and the possibility to further expand the airport in the future. It straddles three départements and six communes:

Management of the airport is solely under the authority of Aéroports de Paris, which also manages Orly, Le Bourget, Marsa Alam in Egypt and several smaller airports in the suburbs of Paris.

[edit] History

Aerial view of Terminal 1
Terminal 1 old check in point
Terminal 1 new check-in

The planning and construction phase of what was known then as Aéroport de Paris Nord (Paris North Airport) began in 1966. On 8 March 1974 the airport, renamed Charles de Gaulle Airport, began service. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design of a ten-floor high circular building surrounded by seven satellite buildings each with four gates. The main architect was Paul Andreu, who was also in charge of the extensions during the following decades.

The grassy lands on which the airport is located are notorious for rabbits and hares, which can be seen by airplane passengers at certain times of the day. The airport organises periodic hunts and captures to keep the population to manageable levels.[5]

[edit] Corporate identity

The Frutiger typeface was commissioned for use in the airport and implemented on signs throughout the building in 1975. Initially called Roissy, it was renamed for its designer Adrian Frutiger.

Until 2005, every P.A. announcement made at Terminal 1 was preceded by a distinctive chime, nicknamed "Indicatif Roissy" and composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1971. The chime can be heard in the Roman Polanski film Frantic. Although the chime was officially replaced by the "Indicatif ADP" chime in late 2005 there has recently been unconfirmed reports that Indicatif Roissy has since occasionally returned.

[edit] Collapse of Terminal 2E

Terminal 2E, with a daring design and wide open spaces, was CDG's newest addition. On 23 May 2004, not long after its inauguration, a portion of Terminal 2E's ceiling collapsed early in the day, near Gate E50, killing four people.[6] Two of the dead were reported to be Chinese citizens and another Czech. Three other people were injured in the collapse. Terminal 2E had been inaugurated in 2003 after some delays in construction and was designed by Paul Andreu. Administrative and judicial enquiries were started. Andreu also designed Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport, which collapsed while under construction on 28 September 2004.

Before this accident, ADP had been planning for a public stock offering in 2005 with the new terminal as a major attraction for investors. The partial collapse and indefinite closing of the terminal just before the beginning of summer seriously hurt the airport's business plan.

In February 2005, the results from the administrative inquiry were published. The experts pointed out that there was no single fault, but rather a number of causes for the collapse, in a design that had little margin for safety. The enquiry found the concrete vaulted roof was not resilient enough and had been pierced by metallic pillars and some openings weakened the structure. Sources close to the enquiry also disclosed that the whole building chain had worked as close to the limits as possible, so as to reduce costs. Paul Andreu denounced the building companies for having not correctly prepared the reinforced concrete.

On 17 March 2005, ADP decided to tear down and rebuild the whole part of Terminal 2E (the "jetty") of which a section had collapsed, at a cost of approximately €100 million.[7] The reconstruction will replace the innovative concrete tube style of the jetty with a more traditional steel and glass structure. During reconstruction, two temporary departure lounges have been constructed in the vicinity of the terminal that replicate the capacity of 2E before the collapse. The terminal reopened completely on 30 March 2008.

[edit] Terminals

Terminal 2 Hall F. Wide open spaces characterise Terminal 2.

The Airport has three terminals. Terminal 1[8] is the oldest. Terminal 2[9] was originally built exclusively for Air France, since then it had been expanded significantly and now also hosts other airlines. The third terminal (T3, formerly T9) hosts charter and low cost airlines.

Terminal 1 has a single main building for check-in and baggage reclaim with 7 satellites for arrivals and departures. Each satellite can handle about 5 aircraft at any given time. Underground walkways with moving sidewalks connect the satellites to the main building. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design which is maintained today even though interior sections of the building have been renovated and modernised.

The RER station for Terminal 1,[10] Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, is at a distance from Terminal 1 must be reached using the free CDGVAL automatic light rail system (Véhicule Automatique Léger (VAL); previously, shuttle buses were used.

Terminal 2 today consists of multiple terminals joined together by ground-level or below ground passageways. The seven terminals consist of 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and the separate 2G. Terminal 2G is located 2.5 km (1.6 mi) away from the terminals 2A-2F and a bus ride is needed for transfer. Terminal 2 also has an RER and TGV station, Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV, below the common area linking halls 2C-2F.

Terminal 3 has a single hall. It is located 1 km (0.62 mi) from Terminal 1, but the walking path is 3 km (1.9 mi) long. The RER and CDGVAL trains are at a distance of 300 m (980 ft) on foot.

Started on 4 April 2007, CDGVAL links all the three terminals (except hall 2G), although there is only a single station for Terminal 2, near the rail station, so the walk distance to the more distant halls 2A-2B is more than 500 m (1,600 ft) (and both CDGVAL and bus is needed to reach 2G from Terminal 1).

FIDS at the airport

[edit] Expansion plans 2007-2012

Apart from the reconstruction of Terminal 2E, two major terminal extensions are underway as of 2008.

The completion of 750 m (2,500 ft) long Satellite 3 (or S3) to the immediate east of Terminals 2E and 2F provides further jetways for large capacity airliners, specifically the Airbus A380. Check-in and baggage handling are provided by the existing infrastructure in Terminals 2E and 2F. Satellite 3 was opened in part on 27 June 2007 and fully operational in September 2007. A similar in size and scope Satellite 4 is planned to open in 2012 to provide additional capacity.[11]

Construction began on a new terminal building, Terminal 2G, to the east of the S3 construction site in September 2006 with the first stone of the new building itself laid in March 2007. This terminal was in operation in March 2009. It is connected to the Terminal 2 complex by shuttle buses and eventually an extension of the CDGVAL shuttle train service. 2G is used for passengers flying in the Schengen Area (and thus has no passport control) and handles Air France regional and European traffic and provides small capacity planes (up to 150 passengers) with a faster turn-around time than is currently possible by enabling them to park close to the new terminal building and boarding passengers primarily by bus, or walk on the ground. Its bus connection is outside the security area and a security check is needed also for transfer passengers. At least 20 minutes must be planned as time when getting from another terminal to the 2G departure area.

Future use of Terminal 2 by Air France constantly evolves thanks to the development and opening of the S3 complex and the new 2G section of Terminal 2. On 30 March 2008, the reopening of Terminal 2E was completed allowing maximum passenger activity and full airport services. Air France operations are now concentrated at Terminals 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and 2G and it has ceased operating from Terminals 2A and 2B.

Terminal 3 is not directly connected to the others, and there is a more than five-minute walk from the tram station.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Terminal 2E Departure Lounge
Air France Boeing 747-400 at Paris-CDG leaving for Montréal-Trudeau.
Airlines Destinations Terminal / Hall
Adria Airways Ljubljana 1
Aegean Airlines Athens 1
Aer Arann Isle of Man [begins 20 February] 1
Aer Lingus Cork, Dublin 1
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2E
Aeroméxico Mexico City 2E
Afriqiyah Airways Tripoli 1
Aigle Azur Annaba, Hassi Messaoud, Oran 2B
Air Algérie Algiers 2B
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca 3
Air Austral Nouméa, St-Denis de la Réunion, Sydney 2A
AirBaltic Riga, Vilnius [begins 18 December] 1
Air Canada Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver [seasonal] 2A
Air China Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong 1
Air Europa Málaga, Valencia 2D
Air France Antananarivo, Bangalore, Brazzaville, Conakry, Cotonou, Delhi, Douala, Havana, Kinshasa, Lomé, Mumbaï, Pointe-à-Pitre [seasonal], Punta Cana, Saint-Martin, Santo Domingo, Yaoundé 2C
Air France Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bologna, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Figari [seasonal], Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lisbon, Munich, Nantes, Oslo-Gardermoen, Prague, Stuttgart, Turin, Vienna 2D
Air France Abidjan, Amman, Atlanta, Bamako, Belgrade, Beijing-Capital, Boston, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Chicago-O'Hare, Dakar, Damascus, Detroit, Dubaï, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kiev-Boryspil, Lagos, Libreville, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Malabo, Manchester, Mexico City, Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, N'djamena, New York-JFK, Newark, Nouakchott, Osaka-Kansai, Port Harcourt, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan 2E
Air France Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Naples, Nice, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo, Warsaw 2F1
Air France Algiers, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Bangui, Beirut, Bogotá, Bucharest-Henri Coanda, Cairo, Caracas, Casablanca, Djibouti, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul-Atatürk, Luanda, Mauritius, Montréal-Trudeau, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire, Rabat, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Toronto-Pearson, Tunis 2F2
Air France Brest, Pau 2G
Air France operated by Airlinair Bristol, London-Heathrow [seasonal] 2E
Air France operated by Airlinair Rennes 2G
Air France operated by Brit Air Newcastle upon Tyne, Zagreb 2E
Air France operated by Brit Air Bilbao, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Genoa, Pisa, Strasbourg, Trieste 2G
Air France operated by CityJet Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh 2E
Air France operated by CityJet Florence, Zürich 2G
Air France operated by Régional Aberdeen, Manchester 2E
Air France operated by Régional Asturias, Basel/Mulhouse, Bremen, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Ljubljana, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Pau, Pisa, Verona, Vigo 2G
Air India Delhi, Mumbai 2F2
Air Madagascar Antananarivo, Nosy Be [seasonal] 2A
Air Malta Malta 2D
Air Mauritius Mauritius 2F2
Air Méditerranée Agadir, Amman, Athens, Bamako, Dakar, Djerba, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Reykjavík-Keflavík, Luxor, Malta, Marrakech, Monastir, Oran, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Shannon [seasonal], Tunis, Varna 3
Air Moldova Chisinau 1
Air Seychelles Mahé 2F2
Air Tahiti Nui Los Angeles, Papeete 2A
Air Transat Calgary [seasonal], Montréal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver [seasonal] 3
Alitalia Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino 2F1
All Nippon Airways Tokyo-Narita 1
American Airlines Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK 2A
Arkia Israel Airlines Tel Aviv 1
Armavia Yerevan 2C
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 1
Austrian Airlines Vienna 2D
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 2B
Belavia Minsk 2B
Blue Line Almeria, Bourgas [begins 24 March], Er-Rachidia, Heraklion [seasonal], Mallorca, Málaga, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Tangier [seasonal], Zanzibar [seasonal] 3
Blue1 Helsinki, Kittilä [seasonal; begins 19 December] 1
Bmibaby East Midlands 1
British Airways London-Heathrow 2A
British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia Billund 2A
Brussels Airlines Brussels 1
Bulgaria Air Sofia 2B
Bulgarian Air Charter Burgas [seasonal], Varna [seasonal] 1
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong 2A
China Eastern Airlines Shanghai-Pudong 2F2
China Southern Airlines Guangzhou 2E
Cimber Sterling Billund 3
Continental Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Newark 1
Croatia Airlines Dubrovnik [seasonal], Pula [seasonal], Split [seasonal], Zagreb 1
Cyprus Airways Larnaca, Thessaloniki 1
Czech Airlines Prague 2D
Delta Air Lines Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, Minneapolis/St. Paul [seasonal], Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City 2E
EasyJet Agadir [begins 9 February], Ajaccio [seasonal], Barcelona, Bastia, Belfast-International, Biarritz, Bristol, Casablanca, Catania [begins 9 February], Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Helsinki [begins 8 February], Ibiza, Kraków, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Luton, Madrid, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Porto, Tangier, Venice-Marco Polo 2B
EasyJet Switzerland Geneva 2B
EgyptAir Cairo, Luxor 1
El Al Eilat-Ovda, Tel Aviv 2A
Emirates Dubaï 2C
Estonian Air Tallinn 1
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa 2A
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 2A
EVA Air Taipei-Taoyuan 1
Finnair Helsinki 2D
Flybe Belfast-City, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Jersey, Manchester, Southampton 1
Gabon Airlines Libreville 1
Georgian Airways Tbilisi 2B
Gulf Air Bahrain 2C
Hamburg International Enontekiö, Funchal, Marrakech 1
Hewa Bora Airways Kinshasa 3
Iceland Express Reykjavík-Keflavík 3
Icelandair Reykjavík-Keflavík 1
Japan Airlines Tokyo-Narita 2E
Jat Airways Belgrade 2B
Jet2.com Leeds/Bradford 3
Jet4You.com Agadir [seasonal], Casablanca [seasonal], Marrakech [seasonal] 3
Kenya Airways Nairobi 2F2
KLM Amsterdam 2F1
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon 2E
Kuwait Airways Kuwait, Rome-Fiumicino 1
LOT Polish Airlines Kraków, Warsaw 1
Lufthansa Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Milan-Malpensa, Munich 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Nuremberg 1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich 1
Luxair Luxembourg 2D
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur 1
Malév Hungarian Airlines Budapest 2D
Meridiana Cagliari, Milan-Linate, Palermo 3
Middle East Airlines Beirut 2F2
Montenegro Airlines Podgorica, Tivat 2B
Niki Vienna 3
Northwest Airlines Atlanta [begins 28 March] 2E
Nouvelair Monastir 3
Olympic Air Athens 1
Oman Air Muscat 2A
Onur Air Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk 3
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Lahore 1
Qatar Airways Doha 1
Rossiya St Petersburg 2C
Royal Jordanian Amman, Aqaba 2A
SATA International Funchal 1
Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino 1
Scandinavian Airlines System Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda 1
Singapore Airlines Singapore 1
Sky Airlines Antalya 3
Smart Wings Prague 3
SriLankan Airlines Colombo 1
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 1
TAAG Angola Airlines Luanda 2F2
TACV Sal 1
TAM Airlines Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos 2A
TAP Portugal Lisbon, Porto [seasonal] 1
TAP operated by Portugália Porto [seasonal] 1
TAROM Bucharest-Henri Coanda 2B
Thai Airways International Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi 1
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir 3
Turkish Airlines Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk 1
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil 2B
United Airlines Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles 1
US Airways Charlotte [seasonal], Philadelphia 1
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent 2B
Vietnam Airlines Hanoï, Ho Chi Minh City 2C
Vueling Airlines Madrid
Windjet Catania, Forli, Palermo 3
XL Airways France Cancún, New York-JFK [seasonal], Phuket, Punta Cana, Antalya, Catania, Djerba, Figari, Heralklion, Palermo, Rovaniemi [begins 20 December], Split [all seasonal] 2A
Yemenia Sana'a [resumes 19 December] 1

[edit] Cargo airlines

[edit] Ground transport

[edit] RER -- Heavy-rail service to downtown and suburban Paris

CDG is connected to the RER suburban rail network, providing services into central Paris three to four times per hour.

CDG airport is connected to Paris by the RER B suburban route. Normally there are two types of services: 4 times per hour to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse calling at all stations to Cité Universitaire, then Bourg-la-Reine, La Croix de Berny, Antony, Massy – Palaiseau and then all stations to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and 4 times per hour to Massy – Palaiseau (on the Saint-Rémy line), first stop Gare du Nord and then all stations to Massy – Palaiseau. The fast services take about 30 minutes to the Gare du Nord, the stopping services about 35. There are two RER B stations inside the airport:

  • one, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, is located inside Roissypôle (an area with hotels and company offices) next to Terminal 3 and is the preferred way to access Terminals 1 and 3;
  • the other, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV, is located beside the TGV station under Terminal 2.

RER B both serves CDG airport (with a travelling clientele) as well as northern suburbs of Paris. The line, operated by SNCF, suffers from slowness and saturation. For these reasons, French authorities have started two projects: one, CDG Express[12] (opening between 2012 and 2015), will link CDG to Paris Gare de l'Est with trains specifically designed for air travellers; the other, RER B Nord Plus,[13] will modernise and streamline the northern branches of RER B.

[edit] TGV -- French High-Speed Rail

Terminal 2 includes a TGV station on the LGV Interconnexion Est high-speed line. SNCF operates direct TGV services to several French stations from CDG, including Le Havre, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Mans, Lille, Arras, Lyon, Marseilles, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poitiers, Angoulême, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tours and Valence.

[edit] CDGVAL -- Free Light-rail shuttle between terminals

Terminals 1, 2, the Roissypôle / Terminal 3 RER station and parking lots PX and PR are connected by the free CDGVAL automated rail shuttle, replacing free shuttle buses.

[edit] Bus

Roissybus, operated by RATP, departs from terminals 1 and 2 and goes non-stop to Paris, behind the Palais Garnier.

There is a bus and coach station in Roissypôle, next to the RER B station. Buses departing from this station include RATP lines 350 and 351 going to Paris and the bus going to the Parc Astérix.

[edit] Alternative airports

The three other airports serving Paris are Orly Airport, the most important after CDG; Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport, which mainly serves low-cost airlines; and Le Bourget Airport for general aviation (business jets).

[edit] Accidents and incidents

The tail of the burning wreckage of Flight 358
  • On 25 July 2000, a Concorde, Air France Flight 4590 from Charles de Gaulle to John F. Kennedy International Airport, crashed into the farthest hotel of Hotelissimo in Gonesse killing everyone on the aircraft and four people on the ground. Investigations concluded that a tire burst occurred on take off due to metal left on the runway from a previously departing aircraft. The Concorde was on a German charter flight for a tour company.

Other accidents and incidents involving CDG include:

[edit] Criticism

Charles De Gaulle airport was recently named as one of the "World's Worst Airports" by CNN.com's travel guide. It shared this award with (among others) Baghdad International airport, Iraq and Leopold Sedar Senghor international airport in Senegal. It achieved this due to its "baffling layout, rude staff and shabby infrastructure"[14]. In a review by Foreignpolicy.com the airport was rated as one of the five worst in the world. The review states that "...a city this great with an airport this bad is just plain embarrassing. It may not have surface-to-air missiles or feral cats, but visitors to Paris should expect more than the grimy terminals, rude staff, confusing layout, and overpriced food that they’ll find at Europe’s second-busiest hub."[15] Sleepinginairports.net went even further, its readers giving the airport 2.45 stars out of 5, noting that "The biggest problem...seems to be with the unpleasant and unhelpful attitudes of airport personnel"[16]. Some of that websites contributors cited unhelpful staff (specifically to non-french speaking passengers), a problem with homeless people living in the airport facilities, and terrible toilet facilities as reasons behind it being voted the worst in the world.

Charles De Gaulle airport also came under scrutiny during a failed test of airline security. In late 2004 French Police slipped a cell-phone sized package of plastic explosives into a random passenger's luggage to test airline security. The luggage was picked up as containing explosives by one of the Explosives sniffer dogs, however when the Police left the luggage unattended to fetch a second dog to carry out the same test, the bag was collected by its owner without their knowledge. The passenger was not made aware of their unwitting participation in the test, and the Police were unable to trace them. To date the explosives are still missing.[17]

On the 22nd of December 2001, Richard Colvin Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Miami International Airport. He had slipped through airport security with an explosive device hidden within his shoes, which he attempted to detonate in flight. A statement from the FBI noted that there was enough explosives in one shoe alone to blow a hole in the fuselage.[18]

[edit] Trivia

 Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (December 2009)

[edit] Mehran Karimi Nasseri

On 26 August 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri found himself held at Charles de Gaulle airport by immigration. He claimed he was a refugee, but had had his refugee papers stolen. After years of bureaucratic wrangling, it was concluded that Nasseri had entered the airport legally and could not be expelled from its walls; but since he had no papers, there was no country to deport him to either, leaving him in residential limbo. Nasseri continued to live within the confines of the airport until 2006, even though French authorities had since made it possible for him to leave if he so wished.[19] He was the possible inspiration for the 2004 film The Terminal. In July 2006 he was hospitalised and later taken care of by charities; he did not return to the airport.

[edit] Appearances in films and other works

[edit] Photography restrictions

On 7 November 2005, prefectoral decision 05-4979 was issued, relating specifically to Charles de Gaulle airport. The law prohibits photographs being taken for private use of anything moving (e.g. aircraft) or not moving (e.g. buildings) within the "zone reservée" (the restricted area) from the "zone publique" (the public area). Thus, for example, one is prohibited from taking pictures from the glassed-in jetways while boarding or debarking; however, it is OK to take pictures inside one's aircraft or terminal.

[edit] See also

Paris portal

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b LFPG – PARIS CHARLES DE GAULLE (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 19 Nov 2009.
  2. ^ a b Traffic Movements 2008 preliminary from Airports Council International
  3. ^ a b Passenger Traffic 2008 Preliminary from Airports Council International
  4. ^ Cargo Traffic 2008 Preliminary from Airports Council International
  5. ^ "Journal L'Alsace / Le Pays". Alsapresse.com. http://www.alsapresse.com/jdj/97/10/01/IGF/1/article_2.html. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 
  6. ^ "'Fresh cracks' at Paris airport". BBC News. 2004-05-24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3743081.stm. 
  7. ^ Infos en direct et en vidéo, l'actualité en temps réel - tf1.fr[dead link]
  8. ^ Terminal 1 49°00′50.34″N 002°32′30.66″E / 49.0139833°N 2.54185°E / 49.0139833; 2.54185 (Terminal 1, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
  9. ^ Terminal 2 49°00′15.81″N 002°34′36.56″E / 49.0043917°N 2.5768222°E / 49.0043917; 2.5768222 (Terminal 2, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
  10. ^ RER station, Terminal 1 49°00′36.3″N 002°33′35.12″E / 49.010083°N 2.5597556°E / 49.010083; 2.5597556 (RER station, Terminal 1, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
  11. ^ "Fixing de Gaulle Will Lift Air France-KLM". businessweek.com. http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070622_884614.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-25. 
  12. ^ CDG Express
  13. ^ RER B Nord Plus
  14. ^ [1]
  15. ^ [2]
  16. ^ [3]
  17. ^ [4]
  18. ^ [5]
  19. ^ "Between 1988 and 2006, a man lived at a Paris airport.". Snopes.com. July 2, 2008. http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/airport.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 

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