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
2017 Orly Airport attack 2017 Orly Airport attack The March 2017 Île-de-France attacks were a pair of terrorist attacks by the same individual in Garges-lès-Gonesse, an outer suburb of Paris, and at Orly International Airport near Paris on 18 March 2017. The attacker, a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, was shot dead after attempting to seize a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport under Opération Sentinelle. At Orly Airport, the attacker shouted that he wanted to kill and die in the name of Allah. the attack is officially regarded as an act of terrorism. The first attack took place at 06:55