Snorkeling in Guadeloupe: Réserve Cousteau, Petite Terre, Les Saintes

The reason Americans skip Guadeloupe is the reason it belongs on your list: the whole place is organized for the French. The long-haul routes point at Paris, the menus and road signs are in French, the boat fleets are sized for mainland-French families on long holidays, and there is no mega-resort strip. The result is a reef economy with real competition, honest euro prices, and water that sees a fraction of the Anglophone traffic its quality deserves. I grew up in Puerto Rico, on an island run in one language for visitors arriving in another; the arrangement works fine once you know how it is organized.

Guadeloupe organizes itself. The archipelago is shaped like a butterfly, and the two wings sort the entire trip. Basse-Terre, the western wing, is the volcanic one — high, wet, green — and its west coast sits in the lee of the trade winds, which is why the calmest reef water in the archipelago, the Réserve Cousteau, is there. Grande-Terre, the eastern wing, is low limestone, and its south coast is lagoon country — the family water at Sainte-Anne and the marina at Saint-François where the Petite Terre boats leave. Decide which wing you sleep on and the rest schedules itself. Guadeloupe also tops the same volcanic arc as Dominica, one island south — the two pair naturally.

Where the sites are

Site	Where	Getting in	Cost	What it is for
Réserve Cousteau / Pigeon Islands	Off Malendure, Basse-Terre west coast	Boat, kayak or guided snorkel from the beach	Boat from €25; the reserve itself is free1	The best reef in the archipelago
Malendure beach	Bouillante, Basse-Terre	Shore, dark sand	Free	Green turtles over seagrass2
Petite Terre	12 miles off Saint-François3	Licensed boats only, ~200 visitors/day4	€110–170 + €2 tax45	Lemon sharks, eagle rays, iguanas
Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin	The lagoon between the wings	Half-day boats from Sainte-Rose	€506	Mangrove, barrier reef, the lagoon
Sainte-Anne / Bois Jolan	Grande-Terre south coast	Shore, sand	Free	Children’s first mask7
Pain de Sucre, Les Saintes	Terre-de-Haut, ferry from Trois-Rivières	Shore, after a hilly 2 km walk8	Ferry from ~€17 each way9	Sea-fan reef in 4–15 ft

What the heat years did here

Every page about Caribbean reefs owes you this section now, and almost none carry it.

NOAA measures accumulated heat stress in degree heating weeks, and the 5 km satellite cell containing the Pigeon Islands logged a peak of 19.20 DHW on 26 October 2023, then 20.21 on 10 November 2024.¹⁰ On NOAA’s own scale, mortality of multiple coral species becomes likely above 12, severe mortality in over half of corals above 16, and near-complete mortality in more than 80% of corals above 20.¹⁰ The reserve’s water crossed that last line in November 2024, in the second consecutive catastrophic year — the same two seasons that hit Dominica’s reefs next door. 2025 peaked lower at 11.81, and 2026 has been clean: zero accumulated heat stress since 21 January, through early August — the first genuinely quiet year since 2022.¹⁰

So set your expectations the honest way. The staghorn and elkhorn thickets that made the Coral Garden famous have been through two years of heat that the scale says kills most coral, and what you will find is a reef in recovery, not the 1990s postcard. What did not bleach: the fish, which are dense here because the fishing ban has had time to compound; the turtles; the sponges and gorgonians; and the volcanic terrain itself. Guadeloupe still clears the bar — judge its water, life density and prices against the rest of the Caribbean, not against its own past — but you deserve the number, and the number is 20.21.

The Réserve Cousteau, from the beach at Malendure

Two scrubby islets sit less than a mile off Malendure’s dark-sand beach, and around them is the marine heart of Guadeloupe National Park — no fishing under prefectoral decree, mandatory mooring buoys, and the dense fish life that years of protection buy.¹¹¹ Jacques Cousteau put this patch of water on the map, and a bronze bust of him sits on sand at 40 feet — visible from the surface on a clear day, a freedive to touch, and the reason half the boats out there carry divers.¹

Ignore the divers. The Coral Garden, along the eastern side of the islets, runs from a few feet below the surface down a gentle slope to about 40 feet — all of it inside a snorkeler’s depth band: parrotfish, angelfish, barracuda, turtles, and the archipelago’s best coral structure without a tank on your back.¹

There is no gate and no ticket. The reserve charges nothing; every euro you spend is the boat, and the beach at Malendure is a floating marketplace of ways to get out there.¹ I spent over ten years in the Key West charter business, and I can read this kind of waterfront in about four minutes: a pontoon, a rotation schedule, half a dozen operators selling versions of the same half-mile crossing at different margins. Here is what each version buys, priced as of 8 August 2026:

• The guided snorkel trip is the best value in the reserve. Les Heures Saines, the shop at the Rocher de Malendure since 1987, runs a randonnée palmée — a guided snorkel with the guide in the water, not waving from the deck — at €39 for adults, €29 for children.¹² A guide in the water is the difference between swimming over a reef and having it explained to you, and at this price you take it. There is also a bookable guided snorkel tour of the reserve with flotation provided for children, which solves the mixed-confidence family problem cleanly.
• The glass-bottom boat is for the group that will not all swim. Les Nautilus runs the classic trip from the Malendure pontoon: 1 h 15 to 1 h 30 over the reserve with commentary, a slide off the back, and a 30-minute swim stop — €25 for adults, €13 for children of 4 to 12, free under 4.¹³ One warning: they do not hand out snorkel gear.¹³ Bring your own mask or the swim stop is just a swim — our travel snorkel gear guide covers sets that pack flat.
• The kayak is the budget route and an honest workout. Rentals on the beach run about $25–30 for a half day; you paddle the half mile, tie to a buoy, and snorkel off the boat.¹ Wind funnels down off Basse-Terre’s ridges, so the paddle back can be twice the work of the paddle out — start early, and if you have never handled a kayak in wind, spend the same money on the guided trip instead.
• You can also skipper yourself. License-free small boats are a normal French rental category, and there is a rent-a-boat option for the reserve if you want the islets on your own clock. Use the buoys; anchoring on coral here is banned.¹¹

Take the first rotation of the morning, whatever you book. The west coast is the lee shore, but by early afternoon the thermal breeze builds chop and the light goes flat; the first boats get glass and slanting morning light, and the difference on a reef at 15 feet is not subtle. That is how a lee coast works everywhere I have ever run boats.

The free version of Malendure is genuinely good. Green turtles graze the seagrass meadows straight off the beach — the meadow starts about 30 m out and runs to 200 m, in 7 to 12 feet of water.² The first 25 meters are murky over dark sand; push through them, then stop swimming. A grazing turtle ignores a floater and flees a chaser — the stillness discipline that fills a spearfisher’s cooler is exactly what parks a turtle in front of your mask for ten minutes. Stay north of the boat lanes; the taxis and dive RIBs run all day and they are not looking for you.²

Petite Terre: the day trip that needs booking first

Twelve miles off Saint-François, two flat islets behind a coral bar hold a national nature reserve that fixes the thing wrong with most “swim with sharks” days: nothing here is baited, and almost nobody is allowed in.³ The reserve admits roughly 200 visitors a day through a short list of licensed operators; landing is allowed only on Terre-de-Bas, boats moor on assigned buoys at 3 knots, and jet skis and kites are banned.⁴¹⁴ In high season the good boats sell out weeks ahead — book Petite Terre before you book anything else in your week.⁴

What the quota protects is worth the trouble. Juvenile lemon sharks patrol the lagoon’s first few meters of water — you will see them from the beach, let alone the mask — with spotted eagle rays common in the channel between the islets, green turtles over the mid-lagoon grass, and barracuda on the bar. The channel runs a current, manageable for anyone comfortable in the water, and nothing in the lagoon is deeper than about 20 feet.³ Ashore, a third of the world’s population of the Lesser Antillean iguana lives on these two islets,¹⁵ and the walking trail runs to an 1840 lighthouse.⁵ Give the sharks the turtle treatment: hold still and let them work their circuit. A three-foot juvenile lemon over sand is a photograph, not a problem.

The trade-offs, priced as of 8 August 2026: the day runs €110–170 per person depending on the boat, plus a €2 port tax at Saint-François, nearly always with lunch, gear and a guided island walk included.⁴⁵ Catamarans cross in comfort in about an hour and a half; the fast boats do it in 40–50 minutes and bounce, because the crossing is open Atlantic — if your stomach argues with boats, take the sail and sit aft.⁴ Awak is the operator I would start with — catamaran, 7:45 departure, €110 adult / €100 child with kayaks and snorkel gear aboard¹⁶ — and basing yourself in Saint-François the night before turns a 6 a.m. cross-island drive into a five-minute walk to the marina.

Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin: read this before you book the lagoon

Between the butterfly’s wings sits a 15,000-hectare lagoon behind 25 km of barrier reef — the longest in the Lesser Antilles — most of it two to five meters deep, fringed by mangrove and scattered with islets.¹⁷ It is a Ramsar wetland inside the national park, and it is where the brochures have fallen furthest behind the rules.

What a lagoon day actually is now: a half-day boat from Sainte-Rose — Gwadaventure runs 8:30 and 13:00 departures at €50 adult / €30 child — threading the mangrove channels, a snorkel stop on the barrier reef, a wreck to swim over, and the swim off Caret from the boat.⁶ Take the 8:30; the lagoon is a mirror before the breeze fills in. And book it for what it is: a naturalist’s morning — mangrove nurseries, rays over the grass, the reef’s outer bar — rather than a coral spectacle. If your week has one boat-day in it, spend it at the Cousteau reserve or Petite Terre; if it has three, this is a fine third.

Les Saintes: Pain de Sucre, and why you should sleep there

Les Saintes are the little island cluster off Basse-Terre’s southern tip, and the crossing is trivial: CTM Deher runs about 25 minutes from Trois-Rivières to Terre-de-Haut, from around €17 each way, with multiple rotations a day across a four-boat fleet.⁹ That makes Pain de Sucre an easy day trip — but hold that thought.

Plage du Pain de Sucre is the best shore snorkel in the archipelago. Enter anywhere off the little beach and work the rocky arms of the bay — the right side is the one that matters, where sea fans crowd the rock in 4 to 15 feet of water with sponges, flamingo tongues and the full Caribbean parade of reef fish.⁸ The center of the bay is seagrass and moored boats; skip it, and watch for urchins wherever you put a foot down.⁸ Getting there from the ferry dock is a hilly 2 km — about 40 minutes on foot — and the beach has no facilities, so carry water.⁸ Scooter rental exists in the village and is priced like the island monopoly it is.

Stay the night. The day-trip crowd compresses Pain de Sucre into the 10-to-3 window; sleep on Terre-de-Haut and you get the reef at 8 a.m. with nobody in it, plus Anse Crawen 700 m further down the same track and the wreck and fringing reef at Anse Mire by the dock for a second morning.⁸ Hotels on Terre-de-Haut run from simple to boutique — Bois Joli sits a six-minute walk from Anse Crawen — and an overnight in the Saintes is the single upgrade I would make to any Guadeloupe week. Terre-de-Bas, across the channel, keeps a quieter card: the sheltered cove at Grande Baie, where turtles are regulars.⁸

The lagoon coast: Sainte-Anne and Bois Jolan

Be clear-eyed about Grande-Terre’s south coast: it is the family coast, not the reef coast. The lagoons at Plage de Sainte-Anne, La Caravelle next door and Bois Jolan a few minutes east are reef-protected, calm and shallow, with small fish over grass and the odd urchin — decent snorkeling by the standards of a beach day, nothing that competes with the west coast.⁷ That is not a complaint; it is a use case. This is where a six-year-old learns that a mask works, in warm waist-deep water with a beach bar in wading distance. Base a family at Sainte-Anne, do the lagoon mornings there, and save the boat money for the two days that deserve it: the Cousteau reserve and Petite Terre. For what the kids should wear in water this shallow and sunny, see what to wear snorkeling.

When to go

Sea temperature at the reserve, from the NOAA satellite record for the cell containing the Pigeon Islands (2023–2026 means):¹⁰

Month	°F	Month	°F
January	81	July	84
February	81	August	85
March	81	September	86
April	82	October	86
May	83	November	85
June	84	December	83

February to April is the answer. Guadeloupe’s dry season — the carême — runs January to April, with sun, short-lived showers and the year’s most comfortable air.²¹ It matters more here than on a flat island because of Basse-Terre’s rivers: west-coast visibility is hostage to what washes off a rainforest volcano, and the dry months are when the water runs clean. The water is 81–82 °F — a rash guard is plenty.

The wet season, June to November, is also cyclone season,²¹ and the Atlantic’s hurricane season peaks on 10 September.²² Take the flooding seriously even when the storm is not a hurricane: Tropical Storm Fiona crossed Guadeloupe on 16 September 2022 — never a hurricane there — and still dropped 534 mm of rain at Saint-Claude, among the wettest tropical-cyclone events in Guadeloupe’s record, killing one person and cutting roads across Basse-Terre.²³ A September week here can lose every boat day to weather that never makes the US news. And in each of the last three years, the reserve’s peak coral heat stress landed between late October and mid-November¹⁰ — precisely when the water is warmest and the murk is worst. December and January are the compromise if late winter is impossible: dry-season conditions, holiday-season crowds and prices.

Getting there, and the French part

The route map is the tell. Pointe-à-Pitre’s long-haul connections point at Paris — Air France from Charles de Gaulle and Orly, Air Caraïbes and Corsair from Orly — plus Montréal on Air Canada and Air Transat; from the United States, American connects through Miami; otherwise you are changing planes in Paris or Montréal.²⁴ Once you land, it is France: euros, French pharmacy hours, rental cars on the right. Nobody needs fluency — the operators in this guide work with English-speaking guests all season — but the visitor who opens every exchange with bonjour gets a different island than the one who does not.

Island-hoppers: the ferry network that serves Les Saintes also links Guadeloupe to Dominica and Martinique on the L’Express des Îles routes, and our Dominica guide covers those crossings and what waits at the other end. St Lucia, further down the same arc, is a different trip with its own logic — covered here.

Where to stay, by mission

The only criterion is the same one I gave people for a decade in the Keys: sleep near the dock your best day leaves from.

• Bouillante / Malendure — the Cousteau base. Walk to the pontoon, snorkel the turtles at will, take the first boat every morning.
• Deshaies — the prettier anchorage up the same coast, with Grande Anse beach and an easy run down to Malendure. Right if you want village evenings with your reef mornings.
• Sainte-Anne — the family lagoon base on Grande-Terre, an hour-plus from Malendure. Right for mixed groups where the beach matters as much as the boat.
• Saint-François — marina town, the Petite Terre departure point, near Pointe des Châteaux. Right for the night before the reserve trip.
• Terre-de-Haut — the overnight that beats the day trip. Right for anyone who wants Pain de Sucre before the ferries arrive.

Guadeloupe snorkeling FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can you snorkel the Réserve Cousteau, or do you need to scuba dive?+

Snorkel it. The Coral Garden on the east side of the Pigeon Islands starts a few feet under the surface and slopes to about 40 feet, which means the best of the reserve is in exactly the depth band a snorkeler owns. The bronze bust of Cousteau sits on sand at 40 feet — you can see it from the surface on a clear day, and reaching it is a freedive, not a swim. Dive shops sell the reserve hard because a baptême is their margin, but the honest ranking is: guided snorkel trip (about €39) first, glass-bottom boat with a swim stop (€25) for mixed groups, scuba only if you already wanted to dive anyway.

How much does Petite Terre cost, and how far ahead should I book?+

Budget €110 to €170 per person for the day from Saint-François, depending on the boat, plus a €2 port tax. The nature reserve admits roughly 200 visitors a day across a handful of licensed operators and nothing else lands there, so in the December-to-April high season the good boats sell out weeks ahead. Book the boat before you book the hotel. If you want the calmer ride, take a catamaran; if you want more time in the lagoon, take a fast boat and accept a sportier Atlantic crossing.

Can you still visit Îlet Caret?+

You can anchor off it and swim; you cannot set foot on it. The National Park has prohibited landing on Caret — including the tidal sand — since 2023 to let the eroding islet revegetate, with barriers on the sand and fines that start at €135, and no reopening has been announced as of August 2026. Lagoon tours from Sainte-Rose still run and are still worth taking for the mangrove and the barrier-reef snorkel stop; just ignore any brochure photo showing picnics on Caret's sandbar, because that picture is describing a trip that no longer exists.

When is the best time to snorkel in Guadeloupe?+

February to April. That is the heart of the dry season — Météo-France's carême — so the rivers on Basse-Terre run clear of the sediment that wrecks visibility, the water sits around 81 °F, and hurricane season is months away. June through November is the wet season and the storm season in one, and it is also when the water runs hottest. September and October are the months to avoid: peak storm risk and the warmest, murkiest water of the year.

Do you need to speak French to snorkel Guadeloupe?+

No, but bring ten words of it. Guadeloupe is France — euros, French menus, French road signs — and the boat fleets are built for visitors from mainland France, not for Americans. The operators who work the Malendure pontoon and the Saint-François marina deal with English speakers constantly and the briefings translate fine; booking pages are the bigger hurdle, and most of the ones on this page have English versions. A bonjour before every transaction is not optional, and it buys you more goodwill here than anywhere else in the Caribbean.

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Sources

Footnotes

1. “Snorkeling the Pigeon Islands, Réserve Cousteau.” Snorkeling Report, checked 8 August 2026, snorkeling-report.com. Islets under a mile offshore, national park protection since 2009, the Coral Garden’s east-side location and 40 ft maximum depth, the Cousteau bust at 12 m on sand, tour pricing from $20–30, and kayak rental from about $25 for three hours. No reserve entry fee appears here or on any operator price list cited on this page, all checked the same day. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. “Snorkeling with sea turtles at Malendure Beach.” Snorkeling Report, checked 8 August 2026, snorkeling-report.com. Seagrass meadow roughly 30–200 m offshore in 7–12 ft, murky nearshore water, boat-traffic caution and the north-end entry advice. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. “Snorkeling in Petite Terre.” Snorkeling Report, checked 8 August 2026, snorkeling-report.com. Twelve miles from Saint-François, the ≤20 ft lagoon and channel, the manageable mid-channel current, juvenile lemon sharks in the first meters off the beach, eagle rays in the channel, and the 15 ft turtle-distance rule. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. “Excursion Petite Terre Guadeloupe : bateaux, tarifs, conseils 2026.” Chouette World, updated February 2026, chouetteworld.com. The ~200-visitor daily cap, 2026 price range €120–170 by boat type, catamaran (~1 h 30) versus speedboat (40–50 min) crossings, and the book-weeks-ahead advice for December–April. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

5. “Petite-Terre en Guadeloupe, le tarif en 2026.” We Love Guadeloupe, checked 8 August 2026, we-love-guadeloupe.com. The €2 port tax, the 148-hectare terrestrial / 852-hectare marine reserve extent, mandatory advance booking, and the lighthouse trail. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. Gwadaventure lagoon half-day listing, Icigo, checked 8 August 2026, icigo.com. €50 adult / €30 child, four hours, 8:30 and 13:00 departures from Sainte-Rose, with mangrove, wreck-snorkel, barrier-reef and Caret swim stops. ↩ ↩²

7. “Where to snorkel in Guadeloupe.” Snorkeling Report, Guadeloupe destination overview, checked 8 August 2026, snorkeling-report.com. The Sainte-Anne, La Caravelle and Bois Jolan lagoons as calm, shallow family water with small fish and urchins. ↩ ↩²

8. “Snorkeling at Pain de Sucre, Les Saintes.” Snorkeling Report, checked 8 August 2026, snorkeling-report.com. Shore entry, the right-hand side of the bay as the best reef in 1–4 m, sea fans and sponges, urchins in the seagrass, the ~2 km hilly walk from the dock, and no beach facilities. Anse Crawen (700 m further), Anse Mire’s wreck and Grande Baie’s turtles per the same publisher’s Guadeloupe overview. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

9. Trois-Rivières–Terre-de-Haut crossings, Direct Ferries, checked 8 August 2026, directferries.com, and CTM Deher, ctmdeher.com. About 25 minutes, from €17, roughly 29 weekly sailings on a four-vessel fleet. ↩ ↩²

10. NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km Degree Heating Weeks and sea surface temperature for the cell containing the Pigeon Islands (16.175 N, 61.775 W), coralreefwatch.noaa.gov; series retrieved 8 August 2026 via PacIOOS ERDDAP. Annual DHW peaks (19.20 on 2023-10-26; 20.21 on 2024-11-10; 11.81 on 2025-10-30; zero accumulation 21 January–6 August 2026), the published mortality thresholds at 12, 16 and 20 DHW, and monthly sea temperature means. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

11. “The Cousteau Reserve in Guadeloupe: a marine sanctuary to be preserved.” Les Nautilus, checked 8 August 2026, lesnautilus.fr. Fishing banned by prefectoral decree, mandatory mooring buoys, no-touch and reef-safe sunscreen rules. ↩ ↩²

12. “Cousteau Reserve Malendure: Discovery Dive, Baptême Prices & Shore Snorkel Guide.” Travel Differently, December 2025 price survey published 28 July 2026, traveldifferently.org. Les Heures Saines’ guided snorkel at €39 adult / €29 child with the guide in the water, and the shop’s tenure at the Rocher de Malendure since 1987. ↩

13. Les Nautilus, glass-bottom boat excursion page, prices and itinerary checked 8 August 2026, lesnautilus.fr. €25 adult / €13 child (4–12) / under-4 free; 1 h 15–1 h 30 with a 30-minute swim stop; snorkel gear not provided; departures from the Malendure pontoon. ↩ ↩²

14. “Guide à l’attention des visiteurs de la réserve naturelle.” Petite Terre reserve visitor guide, checked 8 August 2026, petite-terre.com. Landing at the Terre-de-Bas coconut grove only, the mooring-buoy allocation (13 pleasure craft, 5 professional, 9 small craft), the 3-knot lagoon limit, and the bans on jet skis, kites, camping and wildlife feeding. ↩

15. Réserves naturelles de La Désirade et Petite Terre, official reserve site, checked 8 August 2026, reservesdesiradepetiteterre.com. One third of the world population of the Lesser Antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima) lives on the reserve. ↩

16. Awak Guadeloupe, Petite Terre day cruise page, checked 8 August 2026, awak-guadeloupe.com. €110 adult / €100 child (4–11), 7:45 departure from the Saint-François marina, snorkel gear, kayaks, guided island walk and lunch included. ↩

17. “Grand Cul-de-sac marin.” Wikipédia, checked 8 August 2026, fr.wikipedia.org. Barrier reef reaching 25 km — the longest in the Lesser Antilles — the ~15,000-hectare lagoon at 2–5 m depth, marine reserve status since 1987, Ramsar designation in 1993, and the islets’ inclusion in the national park core in 2006. ↩

18. “Le débarquement à l’îlet Caret reste interdit.” Parc national de la Guadeloupe, 17 December 2024, guadeloupe-parcnational.fr. The landing ban including the intertidal zone, the barriers installed on the islet, revegetation works, and the €135–€750 fine ladder. ↩

19. “Ilet Caret : joyau protégé du Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin.” Panamax Excursions, checked 8 August 2026, panamaxexcursions.com. The ban’s most recent renewal through 30 June 2026, and the continued authorisation to moor on buoys off the islet without setting foot on it. ↩

20. “Fermeture annuelle de l’îlet Blanc.” Parc national de la Guadeloupe, 14 April 2026, guadeloupe-parcnational.fr. The annual seasonal closure for nesting seabirds. ↩

21. “Climat.” Météo-France Guadeloupe, checked 8 August 2026, meteofrance.gp. The carême (dry season) from January to April, the hivernage (wet season) from June to November coinciding with cyclone season, and year-round sea temperatures of 26–29 °C. ↩ ↩²

22. “Tropical Cyclone Climatology.” NOAA National Hurricane Center, nhc.noaa.gov. Atlantic season dates of 1 June–30 November and the 10 September climatological peak. ↩

23. Pasch, Richard J. et al. Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Fiona (AL072022). NOAA National Hurricane Center, nhc.noaa.gov. Fiona’s tropical-storm passage over Guadeloupe on 16–17 September 2022, the 534 mm total at Saint-Claude ranking among the wettest tropical-cyclone events on record for Guadeloupe, and the fatality near the Rivière des Pères. ↩

24. “Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport,” airlines and destinations, Wikipedia, checked 8 August 2026, en.wikipedia.org. Air France (CDG and Orly), Air Caraïbes and Corsair (Orly), Air Canada and Air Transat (Montréal), and American Airlines (Miami). ↩