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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.
A flight information display system screen at Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2 showing flight arrivals. International airports have commercial relationships with and provide services to airlines and passengers from around the world.
A gate is an area in an airport terminal that controls access to a passenger aircraft. While the exact specifications vary from airport to airport and country to country, most gates consist of a seated waiting area, a counter and a doorway leading to the aircraft.
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Side-by-side arrivals and departures on a single level is the simplest option for small airports that do not use the jet bridges; Side-by-side arrivals and departures on two levels uses a street-level car traffic at the landside interface, with elevators and lifts bringing the passengers to and from the upper (boarding) level with jet bridges;
In 1987, the French government decided to build a TGV station at the airport, and in 1989 airport managers agreed to allow the construction of a joint TGV and RER station under Terminal 2, with the RER tracks being extended east and south of this original station. The new station, Aeroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV, opened on 24 November 1994.
It serves as a secondary hub for domestic and overseas territories flights of Air France and as the homebase for Transavia France. Flights operate to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, South America and North America. Before the opening of CDG in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris.
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