Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport , also known as Roissy Airport, in the Paris area, is one of the world principal aviation centres, as well as France 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 514,059 aircraft movements, making it the world sixth busiest airport and Europe's second busiest airport (after London Heathrow) in passengers served. It also is the world tenth busiest and Europe busiest airport in aircraft movement. In cargo traffic, the airport is the fifth busiest in the world and the second busiest in Europe after Frankfurt Airport, having handled 2,087,952 metric tonnes of cargo in 2011. On 1 March 2011, Franck Goldnadel was appointed as the director of the airport. |
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