Talk:Charles de Gaulle International Airport

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[edit] Runway 1 Closure

Runway 1 has been closed recently. Unfortunately, the details are in French and I can't read them. Here's the press release if anyone wants to add this info to the page: http://www.dgac.fr/html/actu_gd/region_parisienne/travaux_roissy/Depliant_TravauxCDG.pdf

I can translate the mentioned PDF file, but is it worth doing it now, as the works were planned to be ended 15 months ago? — Kanġi Oĥanko (talk) 13:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Someone mixed the longitude and latitute... One is at the place of the other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sprotch (talk • contribs) 02:36, 16 November 2004

[edit] Rabbits

Something just for fun...we could mention the hundreds of rabbits (or are they hares?) that occupy the grass surrounding the runways at this airport. It's quite a sight to see. --Feitclub 05:36, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

I dunno, it's a problem lots of airports have. I can think of LHR and ORD for starters. The real problem it causes is that rabbit predators (birds) hang around, and get ingested into jet engines. There was a recent incident with an AA MD-80 a couple months ago here at ORD--the engine exploded. But it's definitely not unique to CDG. -Joseph (Talk) 06:18, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

[edit] Time travel

When operation at CDG started on 8 March 1974, how can it be that already on 3 March 1974 a fully loaded passanger airline crashed after starting from CDG? --Abdull 12:24, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

  • I noticed that too, but my (very limited) online research doesn't seem to list any alternate date when the field opened. I'll keep an eye out and update the section if I come across anything. Yvh11a 03:22, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I have reinstated the following content which was removed by the user 80.178.154.44:

[edit] Hall E (Terminal 2E)

The user has a history of adding nonsense (a series of d and j characters) to the article. quig 16:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I believe Terminal 2E may have reopened. I have a ticket for early next year (2006) showing that I land there.

In summer or fall 2006, all of Air France's U.S.-bound flights were moved to Terminal 2E. Someone should review the destination list. Rove312 23:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Privatisation

I have heard that Roissy and Orly will be privatized in a near future. Is this true? If it is true, could anybody write anything? J-C V 11:55, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Name

What is the source for the article name "Charles de Gaulle International Airport"? The english version of the airport site http://www.aeroportsdeparis.fr/Adp/en-GB/Passagers/ calls the airport "Paris-CDG", or "Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport", most airlines refer to it as "Paris Charles de Gaulle", the airport code is CDG, so where does the word "International" come from? The article should be just named "Charles de Gaulle Airport" or "Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport", with suitable re-directions from other names. TiffaF 06:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

The use of the word "international" is very much an American usage. Smaller cities in the US often call their airport "international airport". We should research to see if the name is actually Charles de Gaulle International Airport. I think it's not. The word "international" is not used in the French name. Archtransit (talk) 19:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History

The history section of this article contains very little actual history of the airport. It mainly lists planes to and fro the airport that had something special happening to them. Perhaps those should be listed under their own heading. Under the history heading should come such information as why was decided on another airport near Paris; issues involved in planning; who were the contractors; why it took so long to develop the thing; who did the offical opening; and in what years it reached passenger and cargo peaks. The anecdote of the refugee that's been living in the airport should go into the trivia section. AbCarter 11.24 PM, 19 october 2006 (CET)

[edit] Problem

Bravo Air Congo appears on the most recent copy of the EU's list of banned airlines; however, it's name still appears on this list as an airline using CDG.

Braditude 18:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nasseri

Does anyone know where Nasseri came from, and why he was hospitalized? Basketball110 (talk) 16:37, 22 December 2007 (UTC)