{"id":121150,"date":"2023-11-07T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=121150"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:29:15","slug":"the-european-airport-a-ridiculous-131-miles-from-the-city-it-claims-to-be-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/world-news\/the-european-airport-a-ridiculous-131-miles-from-the-city-it-claims-to-be-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The European airport a ridiculous 131 miles from the city it claims to be in"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People are just realising how far a famous airport is away from the city it supposedly represents, and they are flummoxed by the distance.<\/p>\n

Planes land a whopping 131 miles away from the capital of a major European country – about 10 miles more than the distance between London and Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Officially titled Chalons Vatry Airport, the airport is often branded as Paris Vatry Airport, including on its official website, and by Ryanair – who painted it as an ideal gateway to the French capital and Disneyland Paris, reports the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve disembarked at the airport, it takes a further two hours and nine minutes to reach Paris by car.<\/p>\n

The airport\u2019s website – parisvatry.com – has a vague catchphrase at the top, reading ‘so close, so fast’. What it is close to is up for debate, but Champagne and Reims certainly seem closer than Paris.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Locals defend ‘god-awful’ UK airport saying ‘we’ve never had bad experience'[INSIGHT] <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Disgruntled social media user @Fernand90083869 said on Twitter\/X: “How can you call it a Paris airport when the airport is 200km away from Paris?”<\/p>\n

Despite its distance, the airport has a fascinating history. Construction began in 1953 in order to boost NATO\u2019s air power problems during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

When France withdrew from the integrated NATO military structure in 1967, the Americans left the air base and it was used as a French training base until 2000.<\/p>\n

Today, it is open to both international heavy cargo and passenger planes, as well as being a training airport for airlines like Air France and British Airways.<\/p>\n

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