Paris-Orly Airport

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For the NATO military use of this facility, see Orly Air Base (Paris). For other uses, see Orly (disambiguation)
Paris-Orly Airport
Aéroport de Paris - Orly

IATA: ORY – ICAO: LFPO
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aéroports de Paris
Location Paris
Elevation AMSL 89 m / 291 ft
Coordinates 48°43′24″N 002°21′46″E / 48.72333°N 2.36278°E / 48.72333; 2.36278Coordinates: 48°43′24″N 002°21′46″E / 48.72333°N 2.36278°E / 48.72333; 2.36278
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 2,400 7,874 Concrete
06/24 3,650 11,975 Asphalt
08/26 3,320 10,892 Concrete

Paris - Orly Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris - Orly) (IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO) is an airport located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, south of Paris, France. It has flights to cities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. Prior to the construction of Charles de Gaulle Airport, 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 terms of passenger boardings.

Orly Airport extends over 15.3 km² (5.9 sq. miles) of land. It straddles two départements and seven communes:

Management of the airport, however, is solely under the authority of Aéroports de Paris, which also manages Charles de Gaulle Airport, Le Bourget Airport, and several smaller airports in the suburbs of Paris.

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[edit] Airlines and destinations

Orly Airport has two terminals: West and South.

[edit] South Terminal

Airlines Destinations
Aigle Azur Agadir, Algiers, Annaba, Bamako, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Djerba, Faro, Lisbon, Oran, Porto, Setif, Tlemcen
Air Algérie Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Tamanrasset, Tlemcen
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf
Air Burkina Ouagadougou
Air Caraïbes Atlantique Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre
Air Ivoire Abidjan
Airlinair Agen, Aurillac, Brive, Castres-Mazamet
Airlinair operated by Chalair Aviation Caen, Cherbourg
Atlas Blue Marrakech, Oujda, Tangier
Compagnie Aérienne du Mali Bamako
Corsairfly Antananarivo, Cancún, Dakar, Dzaoudzi [seasonal], Fort-de-France, Havana, Mauritius, Montréal-Trudeau [seasonal], Nosy Be, Puerto Plata, Pointe-à-Pitre, Port-au-Prince, Punta Cana, St-Denis-de-la-Réunion, St Maarten, Tel Aviv
Cubana de Aviación Havana, Santiago de Cuba
EasyJet Athens, Berlin-Schönefeld, Dubrovnik, Faro, Milan-Linate, Naples, Nice, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Toulouse
EasyJet operated by EasyJet Switzerland Budapest, Geneva
Hex'Air Le Puy
Iran Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Jet4you Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Oujda, Rabat
Karthago Airlines Djerba
Mauritania Airways Nouakchott
MyAir Venice-Marco Polo
Norwegian Air Shuttle Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stavanger, Warsaw [ends 16 August]
OpenSkies New York-JFK, Newark
Royal Air Maroc Agadir, Casablanca, Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Rabat
SkyEurope Bratislava, Prague, Vienna
Syrian Arab Airlines Aleppo, Damascus
Transavia.com Agadir, Catania, Djerba, Funchal [seasonal], Heraklion, Hurghada, Kraków, Luxor, Marrakech, Monastir, Olbia, Oujda, Palermo, Porto, Rhodes, Sevilla, Tozeur
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir, Sfax, Tozeur, Tunis

[edit] West Terminal

Airlines Destinations
Air Europa Alicante, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville
Air France Ajaccio, Basel/Mulhouse, Bastia, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Calvi, Cayenne, Clermont Ferrand, Figari, Fort-de-France, Marseilles, Montpellier, Nice, Pau, Perpignan, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse, Tunis
Air France operated by Airlinair Annecy, Berne, Lannion, Limoges, Lyon, Southampton
Air France operated by Brit Air Barcelona, Basel-Mulhouse, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Lorient, Lourdes-Tarbes, Montpellier, Pau, Perpignan, Quimper, Rodez, Strasbourg
Air France operated by CCM Airlines Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Air France operated by CityJet London-City
Air Malta Malta
Alitalia operated by Volare Airlines Milan-Linate
Clickair Barcelona, Seville, Valencia
Iberia Madrid
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Badajoz [begins 25 July], Burgos, Ibiza, León, Palma de Mallorca [begins 25 July], Salamanca, Valladolid, Zaragoza
TAP Portugal Lisbon, Porto
Twin Jet Périgueux
Vueling Airlines Barcelona, Ibiza, Malaga, Rome-Fiumicino

[edit] Transportation

Road

Orly Airport is connected to the A6 autoroute.

Rail
  • Orly Airport is connected to the RER B train line at Antony (Paris RER) train station by the Orlyval automatic shuttle. Orlyval is free to use between the two Orly terminals (west and south).
  • A shuttle connects Orly Airport to the RER C train at Rungis.
  • A tramway link is planned for the near future.
Buses to Paris include

[edit] History

Originally known as Villeneuve-Orly Airport, the facility was opened in the southern suburbs of Paris in 1932 as a secondary airport to Le Bourget. Before this two huge airship hangars had been built there by the famous engineer Eugène Freyssinet from 1923 on.

[edit] Military use

Main article: Paris - Orly Air Base

During World War II Orly Airport was used by the occupying German Luftwaffe and was repeatedly bombed by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force (USAAF), destroying runways, buildings and hangars.

After the Battle of Normandy, Orly was repaired by the USAAF Ninth Air Force in July and August 1944 and used as tactical airfield A-47. The 50th Fighter Group flew P-47 "Thunderbolts" until September from Orly then liaison squadrons used the airfield until October 1945.

Until March 1947 the American United States Army Air Force 1408th Army Air Force Base Unit was the primary operator at Orly Field, when control was returned to the French Government. Orly was reactivated as a commercial airport on 1 January 1948, however the United States Air Force leased a small portion of the Airport until 1967 as an air transport facility.

[edit] Accidents and attacks

On 3 June 1962, an Air France Boeing 707 charter, the Chateau de Sully, bound for Atlanta, Georgia, crashed during take-off. There were 132 people on-board; 130 of them were killed. The only survivors were two stewardesses seated in the rear of the plane. The charter flight was carrying home Atlanta's civic and cultural leaders of the day. At the time, this was the highest recorded death toll for an incident involving a single aircraft.

On 11 July 1973, Varig Flight 820, a Boeing 707, made a forced landing due to fire in a rear lavatory, incoming from Rio de Janeiro. The aircraft landed 5 kilometers short of the runway, in a full-flap and gear down configuration. However, due mainly to smoke inhalation, there were 123 deaths. Eleven people survived (10 crew, 1 passenger).

On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, otherwise known as the Ermenonville air disaster crashed in the Ermenonville forest after take-off from Orly on a flight to London's Heathrow Airport when an improperly closed cargo door burst open and explosive decompression brought down the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and killed all 346 onboard.

On 31 January 1975, several men, including Ilich Ramírez Sánchez AKA Carlos the Jackal, made an unsuccessful bazooka attack on an El Al airliner. The Boeing 707 was taking off for New York City with 136 passengers. They missed the aircraft, but damaged a Jugoslovenski Aerotransport McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which had just disembarked passengers from Zagreb. The men tried again on January 19, again without success when police spotted the terrorists and opened fire with a submachine gun.

On 15 July 1983, the Armenian underground organisation ASALA bombed a Turkish airline counter in the airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50. The ASALA member Varoujan Garabedian was convicted to life imprisonment for perpetrating the bombing.

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