Before the venue, there is the arrival. Which carrier lands at which terminal, how the alliances divide Charles de Gaulle, and how to secure discounted fares for everyone flying in to your event.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle concentrates the long-haul network and the three global alliances, while Paris-Orly, closer to the south of the city, serves mainly domestic, overseas French and European routes. Knowing the terminal before the brief is written lets you place welcome desks, time transfers and choose between a central venue and one near the airport.
CDG · OrlyTwenty-six carriers international planners ask us about most often, with their Paris terminal.
Key dateWhat changes for joining instructions sent to attendees of events held next spring.
Group travelThe airline programmes that let organisers offer reduced fares to their event.
Relocation · Long staysWhere to check, route by route, which airline accepts the animal and on what terms.
Terminals as published by Paris Aéroport on 16 September 2026. Allocations move with the seasons and works programmes, so confirm them in the joining instructions sent a few days before the event.
| Airline | Alliance | Paris airport & terminal | Home hub |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air France | SkyTeam | CDG 2E, 2F, 2G · Orly 3 | Paris |
| KLM | SkyTeam | CDG 2F | Amsterdam |
| Delta Air Lines | SkyTeam | CDG 2E | Atlanta |
| Korean Air | SkyTeam | CDG 2E | Seoul |
| China Eastern Airlines | SkyTeam | CDG 2E | Shanghai |
| Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) | SkyTeam | CDG 2B | Copenhagen |
| Lufthansa | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | Frankfurt, Munich |
| United Airlines | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | United States |
| SWISS | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | Zurich |
| Singapore Airlines | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | Singapore |
| ANA | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | Tokyo |
| Turkish Airlines | Star Alliance | CDG 1, CDG 3 | Istanbul |
| EgyptAir | Star Alliance | CDG 1 | Cairo |
| Air Canada | Star Alliance | CDG 2C | Canada |
| American Airlines | oneworld | CDG 2A | United States |
| British Airways | oneworld | CDG 2C | London |
| Cathay Pacific | oneworld | CDG 2A | Hong Kong |
| Japan Airlines | oneworld | CDG 2E | Tokyo |
| Qatar Airways | oneworld | CDG 1 | Doha |
| Iberia | oneworld | CDG 2B, CDG 3 · Orly 1 | Madrid |
| Finnair | oneworld | CDG 2B | Helsinki |
| Emirates | — | CDG 2C | Dubai |
| Etihad Airways | — | CDG 1 | Abu Dhabi |
| LATAM | — | CDG 2A | São Paulo |
| easyJet | — | CDG 2D · Orly 1 | Europe |
| Transavia | — | Orly 3 | Paris-Orly |
Source: Paris Aéroport airline directory (parisaeroport.fr), read on 16 September 2026. The terminal names above are those in use until 15 March 2027.
A delegation arriving on Air France at 2E and another landing on Lufthansa at Terminal 1 are, for all practical purposes, at two different airports: the CDGVAL shuttle links them, but with luggage and a welcome desk to find, the connection easily takes half an hour. For an event gathering attendees from several continents, the table above is therefore less a curiosity than a planning document, since it decides how many meet-and-greet points to staff and where the coaches should wait.
Paris Aéroport has announced that from 16 March 2027 the current terminal names at Charles de Gaulle will be replaced by a simple numbering from 1 to 7, and that the car parks next to each terminal will be renamed to match the terminal they serve. For an event scheduled after that date, joining instructions, transfer briefs and signage prepared months in advance should use the new names, which we recommend checking against the airport's own tables once they are published, rather than the letters attendees may remember from previous trips.
The major airline groups run programmes through which an organiser registers an event and then passes a discount code to attendees, who book their own tickets at a reduced fare. Air France KLM Global Meetings & Events advertises discounts of up to 15% on flights to a registered event, with bookings open from any destination on the group's network, and rewards the organiser with award tickets based on the number of flights actually taken. Star Alliance offers a comparable programme for its member airlines under the name Conventions Plus. Eligibility, minimum attendance and the applicable discount depend on the event and are confirmed by the airline at registration, which is why it is worth starting the process as soon as dates and venue are fixed, so that the code can appear in the very first invitation.
When most of the audience lands on the same morning and leaves the following day, the time lost between Roissy and central Paris weighs on the programme, and a venue close to the airport often serves the brief better than a prestigious address in the city. Our selection of event venues near Paris CDG airport covers that case, while the meeting time zone planner helps set session times that remain reasonable for attendees who have just crossed several time zones.
Relocating executives, speakers on extended assignments and attendees who combine an event with a longer stay in France sometimes travel with their animal, and the question quickly becomes the deciding factor in their choice of flight. Airline rules differ on whether a dog or cat may travel in the cabin, in the hold or as air cargo, they vary by route and by aircraft, and the entry requirements of France must be matched with those of the country the traveller will return to.
For these cases we refer planners and travellers to MyDogCanFly, a sister publication of B2B VENUES LLC and, to our knowledge, the only reference that brings all of this information together, sourced and verified, for more than 100 airlines. For a given route, its tool indicates which carriers accept the animal in the cabin, in the hold or as cargo on a direct flight, and it sets out the conditions for entering the destination country as well as those for returning home. The airline-by-airline pet policies link every rule to the airline's own published source.
For an event in Paris, two pages answer most of the questions: the Air France pet travel policy, since the national carrier operates the largest number of routes into Charles de Gaulle and Orly, and the entry requirements for bringing a dog or cat into France, which set out the documents and conditions checked on arrival.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle. It handles the long-haul network and the carriers of the three global alliances, while Paris-Orly mainly serves domestic, overseas French and European routes, including Transavia and part of the Air France, easyJet and Iberia operations.
Not all of them. Most of the Star Alliance carriers listed above use Terminal 1, but Air Canada operates from Terminal 2C. SkyTeam carriers are concentrated in Terminals 2E and 2F around Air France, and oneworld carriers are spread across 2A, 2B, 2C, 2E and Terminal 1.
According to Paris Aéroport, the terminals at Charles de Gaulle will from that date be numbered simply from 1 to 7, and the car parks will be renamed after the terminal they serve. Joining instructions for events held after that date should use the new names.
Yes, when the organiser registers the event with an airline programme. Air France KLM Global Meetings & Events advertises discounts of up to 15% for attendees of registered events, and Star Alliance runs its own Conventions Plus programme. Conditions are set by the airline at registration.
MyDogCanFly compiles sourced pet travel rules for more than 100 airlines and shows, for a given route, which carriers accept the animal in the cabin, in the hold or as cargo, together with the entry conditions of the destination country and the rules for returning home.