# Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)

> Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), FR · IATA: CDG · ICAO: LFPG · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `CDG` |
| ICAO | `LFPG` |
| City | Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise) |
| Country | FR |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 119 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| Cargo Rank | #1 |
| GPS | 49.01280, 2.55000 |

## Description

FedEx marked 25 years of its European hub at Roissy in 2025 and added a dedicated 22,200 m² facility - a roughly €30 million investment - for heavyweight and special freight; the site remains the integrator's largest sorting plant outside the United States. It is one reason Paris-Charles de Gaulle (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) keeps trading the title of Europe's leading cargo airport with Frankfurt: around 1.75 million tonnes of freight and mail crossed CDG in 2025, after some 1.9 million in 2024. Air France-KLM markets belly and freighter capacity from CDG under the Martinair Cargo brand, while freighters from Qatar Airways Cargo, China Cargo Airlines and Etihad Cargo - which doubled its Boeing 777F service via Abu Dhabi to twice weekly as of 21 July 2026 - add main-deck lift. The Cargo City zone concentrates forwarders, handlers and customs working around the clock. On the passenger side, CDG serves about 70 million travellers a year as the home base of Air France and ranks among Europe's three busiest airports. Forwarders value the location 25 kilometres northeast of Paris on the A1 and A3 motorways; a TGV station inside the terminal ties the airport into France's high-speed rail network, and RER line B reaches the city centre. CDG also anchors the French road feeder system - most air cargo from regional airports between Bordeaux and Strasbourg arrives in Roissy by truck. Opened in 1974 and named after General Charles de Gaulle, the airport's circular Terminal 1 remains an architectural icon of the seventies.

---

*Freight Academy — Airport Profile: [https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/charles-de-gaulle-international-airport-cdg](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/charles-de-gaulle-international-airport-cdg)*

*Markdown mirror: [https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/charles-de-gaulle-international-airport-cdg](https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/airports/en/charles-de-gaulle-international-airport-cdg)*

*LLM-Summary (JSON): https://www.freight-academy.com/api/v1/airports/charles-de-gaulle-international-airport-cdg/llm-summary*