[keiferski]

Most of the major airports in France have train stations built-in. For example, you can fly to Paris airport then take a train directly to Lyon; no need to go into the center of Paris first. It’s really not much different from changing flights.

[renaudg]

Paris CDG and Lyon LYS are the only airports in France I can think of with a built-in mainline train station. And the schedules are much less convenient than those in city-centre stations.

[keiferski]

This hasn’t been updated in nine years but it seems to confirm that there are only two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airport_railway_stati...

But I suppose the majority of overseas travelers coming into France by air with the intention of connecting to a smaller city do so via Paris or Lyon. As European travelers seem to enter by car or go directly to their destination. At least that’s my impression from reading a few articles about tourism in France.

[renaudg]

Yes and no, IIRC the second busiest airport in France is actually Nice (NCE) on the French Riviera.

[keiferski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i...

Looks like the two Paris airports together get 10x the traffic of Nice.