Finding budget flights to and from Paris
Everybody loves Paris. The French capital is one of the world’s top travel destinations and a perennial EuroCheapo fave. Getting to the City of Light remains a primary goal for many visitors to Europe, first-time and veteran alike.
France has no low-cost airlines of note, but there are several budget airlines that serve Paris. Here is an airport-by-airport examination of which low-cost airlines serve which destinations from the three airports of Paris.
This list of destinations reachable by budget airlines from Paris is notable for its geographic range. For many tourists, these links facilitate travel between Paris and other corners of Europe at a price point far lower than anticipated.
Charles de Gaulle, the big daddy (Grande Dame?) of airports in France, sees traffic from several budget airlines (Air Baltic, Blue1, Bmibaby, easyJet, Flybe, Iceland Express, Jet2, Niki, and Vueling) to over four dozen destinations across Europe and northern Africa.
* Air Baltic flies to Riga and Tallinn.
* Bmibaby flies to East Midlands.
* EasyJet flies to Agadir, Ajaccio, Barcelona, Bastia, Belfast, Biarritz, Brest, Bristol, Casablanca, Catania, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Helsinki, Ibiza, Krakow, Lisbon, Liverpool, Ljubljana, London Luton, Madrid, Mallorca, Malaga, Marrakech, Milan Malpensa, Newcastle, Nice, Porto, Prague, Split, Tangier, Toulouse, Venice, and Zagreb.
* Flybe flies to Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Jersey, and Manchester.
* Iceland Express connects Charles de Gaulle to Reykjavík.
* Jet2 flies to Leeds Bradford.
* Vueling connects Charles de Gaulle to Alicante, Granada, Lleida, Madrid, and Santiago de Compostela.
2. Orly
Five budget airlines (Air Berlin, easyJet, Norwegian, Transavia, and Vueling) connect Orly to around 50 destinations.
* Air Berlin flies to Berlin and Dusseldorf.
* EasyJet flies to Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Faro, Geneva, Milan Linate, Mykonos, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palermo, Pisa, Rome Ciampino, Toulouse, and Venice.
* Norwegian connects Paris-Orly to Aalborg, Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stavanger.
* Transavia France flies to Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Catania, Djerba, Féz, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurgada, Izmir, Krakow, Las Palmas, Luxor, Marrakech, Monastir, Oujda, Palermo, Porto, Reykjavík, Rhodes, Seville, Tenerife South, and Tozeur.
* Veuling connects Paris-Orly to Barcelona, Ibiza, Malaga, Rome Fiumicino, Seville, and Valencia.
3. Beauvais
To and from the all-budget airport of Beauvais, three airlines (Blue Air, Ryanair, and Wizzair) connect to over 40 destinations.
* Blue Air flies to Bacau and Bucharest.
* Ryanair flies to Alicante, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Bratislava, Cagliari, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Girona, Glasgow Prestwick, Kaunas, Madrid, Malaga, Marseille, Milan Bergamo, Oslo Rygge, Pau, Pisa, Porto, Reus, Rome Ciampino, Shannon, Stockholm Skavsta, Trapani, Treviso, Valencia, and Zaragoza.
* Wizzair connects Beauvais to Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Timosoara, Warsaw, and Wroclaw.
More information
For more information about airports in Paris, including ground transportation into Paris’ city center, please see the profiles of Charles de Gaulle, Orly, and Beauvais Tille in our flights section.
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I flew RyanAir out of Beauvais a couple of times and I was very happy with the service. Coming from the US, I was amazed that you could fly for so cheap. Of course, make sure you don’t bring any luggage if you want the flight to stay cheap 🙂
There are no “low cost” carriers that I know of from the US to Paris. However, Open Skies (operated by British Air) offers low-cost business flights which are, relatively speaking, “budget for business”: https://www.flyopenskies.com/splash
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Interesting that you say “France has no low-cost airlines of note”. But in the French aviation market the distinction between low-cost airlines, discount regional carriers and legacy airlines is more blurred that it is in North America. French airlines have pioneered discount travel between Europe and Africa and indeed discount carriers like XL France have developed substantial long haul networks: Cuba, Cyprus, Cape Verde, Maldives, etc. Transavia France SAS (which you mention Alex) is a wholly French airline (at least we think). Other carriers of note are Aigle Azur and Brit Air. What is interesting about the French market is that the French have not fallen hook, line and sinker for the “cattle-truck is best” approach to travel.
The following links may be helpful:
XL France http://www.xlairways.fr
Brit Air: http://www.britair.fr
Aigle Azur: http://www.aigle-azur.fr
Transavia France http://www.transavia.fr