Groupe ADP de Gaulle Airport officially started its operations in March 1974. In 1976, 20 million passengers flew through the Parisian airports. During the 1980s and 1990s, L’aéroport de Paris, which became "Aéroports de Paris" in 1989 and "Paris Aéroport" in 2016, built new satellites and terminals for the Charles de Gaulle airport (terminal 2, terminal 3). By 1987, traffic in the Parisian airports grew to 40 million. A TGV train station opened within the Charles de Gaulle airport in 1994. Aéroports de Paris became a public company on 20 April 2005, although the French government retained a majority of the company's
Lydd Airport 1971, Air Freight initially continued the former Skyways Air Cargo operation under its own name and, in February 1973, merged with South West Aviation. The closure of Ashford Airport in 1974 resulted in the relocation of Air Freight's headquarters and operating base to nearby Lydd Airport, where it operated using both DC-3's for cargo and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 turboprops for combined passenger and cargo operations across the UK, Channel Islands and Europe (mainly Amsterdam and Paris). During the 1980s the airport was bought by Hards Travel from Solihull, who used the airport (along with Coventry Airport) as its base for