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• Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG) is the largest airport in the Paris region, located 14 miles northeast of Paris, and is Europe's second busiest after London's Heathrow Airport. The official website is called Aéroports de Paris, which includes information for both Charles de Gaulle and Orly Airports; many of the site's pages give information about both airports on the same page - make sure you pay attention to the CDG information when both airports are discussed.Official Site: Key Figures

• Fast Facts

  1. IATA code: CDG
  2. Elevation: 390 feet (119m)
  3. Located in: Roissy, France
  4. Employs: 10,000Official Site: Key Figures
  5. 2007 passengers: 59.9 millionOfficial Site: Traffic 2007
  6. Terminals: Six Cargo TerminalsOfficial Site: Key Figures The potential of our airports
  7. Runways: FourOfficial Site: Key Figures The potential of our airports
  8. Opened: March 8, 1974

• Transportation

  Paris' CDG International Airport offers multiple methods of transportation, both to and from the airport, so that tourists and residents alike have many options available to them in relation to time and budget, including the RAPT rapid transit system and the TGV high-speed trains.

• Pop Culture

  This Parisian hub has appeared in numerous French films, the U2 video for "A Beautiful Day," and became the home for "a man without a country" for over 15 years, whose story was later depicted in Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal starring Tom Hanks.The New York Times: "Waiting for Spielberg" (September 21, 2003)

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