Airports in France
France has 49 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 17 of them large. The busiest are Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG, 72.0 million passengers, Eurostat, 2025), Paris-Orly Airport (ORY, 34.9 million passengers, Eurostat, 2025) and Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE, 15.2 million passengers, Eurostat, 2025). Paris has more than one airport; a city code (PAR for Paris) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| CDG – JFK | 5,850 km | 1,852,909 |
| NCE – ORY | 677 km | 1,596,967 |
| MAD – ORY | 1,028 km | 1,585,160 |
| LIS – ORY | 1,438 km | 1,545,371 |
| CDG – YUL | 5,540 km | 1,361,014 |
| BCN – CDG | 858 km | 1,291,815 |
| ORY – TLS | 572 km | 1,273,925 |
| CDG – DXB | 5,245 km | 1,268,474 |
| FCO – ORY | 1,092 km | 1,185,444 |
| OPO – ORY | 1,202 km | 1,139,251 |
| BCN – ORY | 826 km | 1,129,008 |
| AMS – CDG | 399 km | 1,125,321 |
| CDG – LHR | 348 km | 1,121,802 |
| CDG – NCE | 694 km | 1,106,876 |
| ORY – PTP | 6,756 km | 1,091,799 |
| CDG – MAD | 1,063 km | 1,052,407 |
| ALG – CDG | 1,369 km | 1,047,213 |
| CDG – IST | 2,217 km | 1,010,453 |
| FDF – ORY | 6,854 km | 955,856 |
| ORY – RUN | 9,339 km | 940,791 |
Air fares in France
Consumer prices for flights in France moved −1.0% over the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, and +1.7% in August 2026 alone on a year earlier.
The price index for flights bought by households (domestic and international together), not a fare on a route.
Eurostat, HICP (prc_hicp_minr, ECOICOP ver. 2: 07.3.3 passenger transport by air), moving 12-month average and annual rate of change. Eurostat has no responsibility for the results of any re-use. Sources