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Rungis
Rungis () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, in the ''département'' of Val-de-Marne. It is best known as the location of the large wholesale food market serving the Paris metropolitan area and beyond, the ''Marché d'Intérêt National de Rungis'', said to be the largest food market in the world. The name Rungis was recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 1124 as ''Rungi Villa''. Economy Rungis is the home base for the headquarters of the Système U supermarket cooperative, Corsair International (previously Corsairfly) and HOP! airlines, and MGA Entertainment's France division. Prior to its disestablishment, Air Liberté was headquartered in Rungis.''World Airline Directory''. Flight International. 26 March-1 April 1997.44 Airlinair previously had its head office in Rungis. In 2013 Airlinair merged into HOP! Transport Rungis is located . (7.2 miles) from the center of Paris and from Orly Airport, at the junction of the A6 and RN7. Rungis is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rungis – La Fraternelle (Paris RER)
Rungis () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, in the ''département'' of Val-de-Marne. It is best known as the location of the large wholesale food market serving the Paris metropolitan area and beyond, the ''Marché d'Intérêt National de Rungis'', said to be the largest food market in the world. The name Rungis was recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 1124 as ''Rungi Villa''. Economy Rungis is the home base for the headquarters of the Système U supermarket cooperative, Corsair International (previously Corsairfly) and HOP! airlines, and MGA Entertainment's France division. Prior to its disestablishment, Air Liberté was headquartered in Rungis.''World Airline Directory''. Flight International. 26 March-1 April 1997.44 Airlinair previously had its head office in Rungis. In 2013 Airlinair merged into HOP! Transport Rungis is located . (7.2 miles) from the center of Paris and from Orly Airport, at the junction of the A6 and RN7. Rungis is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marché D'Intérêt National De Rungis
The Rungis International Market (french: Marché International de Rungis) is the principal market of Paris, mainly for food and horticultural products, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs. It is the second largest wholesale food market in the world. The first one is La Central de Abastos, located in Mexico city, with 327 ha. From its origins in the 10th century to the mid-20th century, the central market of Paris was located in the centre of the city, in a 10-hectare area named Les Halles. That became too small to accommodate all of the business demand, and, in 1969, the market was transferred to the suburbs. Rungis was selected because of its easy access by rail and highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-access ... and its proximity to Orly Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A6 Autoroute (France)
The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, ''Motorway of the Sun'', (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris. The motorway is favoured by holidaymakers as it is the main link to the South of France and the French Riviera. At 455 km long it is France's third longest autoroute after the A10 autoroute and the A4 autoroute. The A6 motorway used to be prone to severe traffic jams around Fourvière Tunnel near Lyon prior to the opening in 1992 of and in 2011 of the |
Système U
Système U is a French symbol group retailers cooperative, comprising about eight hundred independent hypermarkets and supermarkets, headquartered in the Parc Tertiaire SILIC in Rungis, France. It owns the trademarks Hyper U, Super U, Marché U and Utile, which are used by its members. It had a pre-tax turnover of 12.7 billion euros in 2002 and 13.8 billion in 2003, rising to 15.6 billion euros in 2007; this makes the company the sixth largest retail group in France. It is directly descended from the ''Pain Quotidien'' ('daily bread') cooperative which was founded in western France in 1894. It arranged a strategic alliance with the larger E.Leclerc E.Leclerc (informally simply Leclerc, ) is a French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine. E.Leclerc was established on 1 January 1948 by Édouard Leclerc in Brittany. E.Leclerc currently has more than 720 ... supermarket group in 1999. The sub-brands There are four brands found withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Airport
Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, south of Paris, France. It serves as a secondary hub for domestic and overseas territories flights of Air France and as the homebase for Transavia France. Flights operate to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. Before the opening of Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Even with the shift of most international traffic to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly remains the busiest French airport for domestic traffic and the second busiest French airport overall in passenger traffic, with 33,120,685 passengers in 2018. The airport is operated by Groupe ADP under the brand Paris Aéroport. Since February 2018, the CEO of the airport has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airlinair
Société Airlinair, simply known as Airlinair, was a French regional airline based in Rungis, France, operating scheduled regional flights (some of which were on behalf of Air France), and aircraft lease services. The airline has set up bases at Paris-Orly Airport and Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport. As an Air France regional partner, it also offered flights from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport Airlinair, along with Régional and Airlinair, was fully merged into HOP! in 2017 after a year of negotiations. History The airline was established in 1998 and started operations in May 1999. It was founded by four principal shareholders including Lionel Guérin and is owned by private investors (80.5%) and Brit Air (19.5%). Since 31 March 2013, all Airlinair flights have been operated under the name HOP!, Air France's regional brand. Airlinair ceased all flight operations in March 2017 after its merger in HOP!. Destinations As of 30 March 2013, Airlinair operates scheduled flights t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsairfly
Corsair International, legally ''Corsair S.A.'' and previously ''Corsairfly'' and ''Corse Air International'', is a French charter airline headquartered in Rungis and based at Orly Airport. It is a subsidiary of German investor Intro Aviation (53%) and TUI Group (27%). It operates scheduled long-haul services to leisure destinations in the French overseas territories, Africa and North America, as well as charter flights to other destinations. History Early years The airline was established in 1981 and started operations on 17 May 1981 as Corse Air International. It was founded by the Corsican Rossi family. In 1990 it was acquired by Nouvelles Frontières, a French tour operator, and the name was changed to Corsair. In 1991, the airline obtained worldwide traffic rights. In 2000, the TUI Group, one of the world's leading tour-operator groups, took over Nouvelles Frontières. In 2004, Corsair aircraft were repainted with the colours of TUI, a blue fuselage with the TUI-logo, li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Liberté
Air Liberté (later known as Air Lib) was an airline in France founded in July 1987. Air Liberté was headquartered in Rungis.''World Airline Directory''. Flight International. 26 March-1 April 1997.44 Air Lib was headquartered in Orly Airport Building 363 in Paray-Vieille-Poste. History Air Liberté began operations in April 1988 with a leased MD-83. It mainly operated to destinations in European and Mediterranean holiday resorts, however it had some intercontinental routes. In 1991, Air Liberte published a joint timetable with French air carrier Minerve (airline) which was operating flights to San Francisco and Papeete, Tahiti as well as to Pointe a Pitre and Fort de France in the Caribbean at the time. A route to Montreal was inaugurated in 1992, and Réunion and the Caribbean were also served by the airline. Unsuccessful routes included one from Toulouse to Dakar and London, which were scrapped in a conflict over slot allocations at Orly. 1996 saw a new route to Nice, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Halles
Les Halles (; 'The Halls') was Paris' central fresh food market. It last operated on January 12, 1973, after which it was "left to the demolition men who will knock down the last three of the eight iron-and-glass pavilions""Les Halles Dead at 200, A Victim of Progress", ''The New York Times'', January 13, 1973, p. 8 and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground and directly connected to the massive RER and métro transit hub of Châtelet–Les Halles. The shopping mall welcomes visitors daily. A major reconstruction of the mall was undertaken in 2010, and the new version of the Forum des Halles was inaugurated in 2018. The 2.5 hectare Canopy was opened on 5 April 2016. In 2017, the Forum des Halles was the second most visited shopping mall in the Paris region with 42 million yearly visitors. History The market of the Little Fields In the 11th century, a market grew up by a cemetery to the northwest of Paris in an area called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut Aéronautique Jean Mermoz
Institut aéronautique Jean Mermoz (IAJM) is a flight training organisation and resourcing services. Professional airline pilots have been trained at IAJM since 1957. Its name is from the French aviator Jean Mermoz. The school is well known for its aviation books. Published in French, since 2016 the books have also been available in English thanks to a partnership agreement with the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French Civil Aviation University). The first English books were published at the Paris Air Show 2017, in partnership with Airbus. The school has an agreement with the aerospace college IPSA for a double-degree Master of Science in aviation / ATPL. One third of French airline pilots have been trained at Institut Mermoz. Course structure The course is in one year. It is during this time that students work to complete the 14 JAA/EASA ATPL theoretical exams. The 14 ATPL exams are as follows: *Principles of Flight *Aircraft General Knowledge – Systems *Aircraft G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RER C
RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south. The line runs from the northern termini Pontoise (C1), Versailles-Château-Rive-Gauche (C5) and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (C7) to the southern termini Massy-Palaiseau (C2), Dourdan-la-Forêt (C4), Saint-Martin d'Étampes (C6) and Versailles-Chantiers (C8). The RER C line is the second-longest in the network, created from an amalgamation and renovation of several old SNCF commuter lines unlike RER A and B which had newer sections owned and constructed by RATP. Each day, over 531 trains run on the RER C alone, and carries over 540,000 passengers daily, 150,000 passengers more than the entirety of the TGV network. It is the most popular RER line for tourists, who represent 15% of its passengers, as the line serves many monuments and museums, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
