[3] The company L’aéroport de Paris was created as a établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial in 1945.

Le Bourget launched the first edition of the Paris Air Show in 1953 and switched to business jet operations in 1976.

In 2008, Aéroports de Paris and Schiphol Group signed a strategic partnership that involved buying 8% of each other's shares to seal the deal.

[4] In 2008, French conglomerate Vinci also bought 3.3% of Aéroports de Paris, calling the airport operator "the heart of its strategic aims".

Aéroports de Paris opened the new Hall M in Terminal 2E in July 2012 (7.8 million passengers/year capacity) which contains 65,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, a museum, and Air France's largest business lounge.

[8] From 2006 to 2015, the number of fine food restaurants grew from 1 to 20 in Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport, and style fashion brands from 6 to 20.

ADP Management was created as a fully owned subsidiary in 1991 to consolidate the group's growing participations in airports and other industry-related assets.

[16] In November 2015, the group's CEO Augustin de Romanet announced ADP's strategic programme Connect 2020.

The plan includes a major overhaul of the company's branding organization:[17] The rebranding shift became effective in April 2016.

[18] Following the announcement of the Connect 2020 plan, the passenger brand Paris Aéroport was applied to Parisian international airports (Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget).

[19] ADP Ingénierie was created in 2000 as a fully owned subsidiary to provide large-scale engineering for airport-related development projects.