Paris's two airports moved 107.0 million passengers in 2025 — nearly matching the 2019 record — with Charles de Gaulle holding its rank as the European Union's busiest airport and Orly growing twice as fast. The Air France hub at CDG is the machine underneath the palace tier.
Charles de Gaulle handled 72.0 million passengers in 2025, up 2.5% — 94.6% of its 2019 record of 76.2 million. It is the busiest airport in the European Union and the third in Europe after Heathrow and Istanbul. 91.8% of its traffic is international; the busiest route is New York JFK, at 1.85 million round-trip passengers.
The hub runs at the edge: 473,798 aircraft movements in 2025, four parallel runways, a connecting rate of 20.7%. Air France is the engine — up to 11 daily New York flights planned for 2026, a new Las Vegas route from April — and the airport's expansion plan targets 85 million passengers by 2030.
Orly moved 34.9 million passengers in 2025, up 5.5% — twice CDG's growth rate — on a short-haul, leisure and domestic mix. The Hampton by Hilton Orly (300 rooms, 2027) is the hotel market's direct answer: airport keys follow the leisure curve.
107 million airport passengers do not equal 107 million tourists, but the flow sets the floor. The record 49.1 million visitors of 2025 arrived mostly by air, and the long-haul mix — US first, then the Gulf and Asia recovering — is what the palace-tier conversion pipeline is priced on. When CDG's 85-million plan lands, every suite on the Right Bank reprices.
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