Orly Airport

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
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:

• Essonne département (61.7%): communes of Paray-Vieille-Poste (27.4%) (West Terminal and half of South Terminal), Wissous (15.5%), Athis-Mons (13.6%), Chilly-Mazarin (2.8%), and Morangis (2.4%)
• Val-de-Marne département (38.3%): communes of Villeneuve-le-Roi (22.5%) and Orly (15.8%) (half of South Terminal)

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.

Orly Airport has two terminals: west and south. They are linked to Paris by freeways, Air France buses, RATP buses (called OrlyBus) and the Orlyval automatic metro service, which connects to the Antony (Paris RER) station. A tramway link is planned for the near future.

Airlines and destinations

South Terminal

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Agadir, Algiers, Annaba, Bamako, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Djerba, Lisbon, Oran, Porto, Setif, Tlemcen
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf
Air Algérie	Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Setif, Tlemcen
Air Burkina	Ouagadougou
Air Caraïbes Atlantique	Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre
Air Ivoire	Abidjan
Air Méditerranée
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, Halifax [seasonal], Havana, Mauritius, Montréal-Trudeau [seasonal], Nosy Be, Puerto Plata, Pointe-à-Pitre, Port-au-Prince, Punta Cana, Québec City [seasonal], St-Denis-de-la-Réunion, St Maarten, Tel Aviv
Cubana de Aviación	Havana, Santiago de Cuba
EasyJet	Athens, Berlin-Schönefeld, Dubrovnik [begins 12 July], Faro [begins 11 July], 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
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, Las Palmas, Luxor, Marrakech, Monastir, Olbia, Oujda, Palermo, Porto, Rhodes, Sevilla, Tozeur
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir, Sfax, Tozeur, Tunis

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, Lyon, Marseilles, Montpellier, Nice, Pau, Perpignan, Pointe-à-Pitre, Rodez, Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse, Tunis
Air France operated by Airlinair	Berne
Air France operated by Brit Air	Annecy, Barcelona, Basel-Mulhouse, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Lannion, Limoges, Lorient, Lourdes-Tarbes, Perpignan, Quimper, Rodez, Southampton, 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	Burgos, Ibiza, León, Palma de Mallorca [begins July 25], Salamanca, Valladolid, Zaragoza
TAP Portugal	Lisbon, Porto
Twin Jet	Périgueux

Transportation

Orly Airport is connected to the A6 autoroute.

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.

Buses to Paris include:

• the Air France coaches (Cars Air France)
• the RATP Orlybus (direct to Denfert-Rochereau)
• the Jetbus line goes to the Villejuif – Louis Aragon station on Paris Métro Line 7

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.

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.

Accidents and attacks

On June 3, 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 March 3, 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 January 13, 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 July 15, 1983, the Armenian underground organization 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.

Trivia

• Tom Ripley of the Ripliad books and films often uses Orly airport
• The famous science fiction short film La Jetée begins and ends with a violent event on the main terminal at Orly.
• Canadian Rock group 'The Guess Who" released a song called 'Orly' about their stop over here during one of their European trips.
• During the early Sixties, army sergeant Robert Johnson was a guard at the U.S. courier center at Orly Airport, where dispatches arrives to and from Air Force and Army bases in Europe. When having night duty alone, he used to come out of the center and hand KGB contacts envelopes full of documents to photocopy.

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See also

• United States Air Force in France

References

• French Aeronautical Information Publication for LFPO (PDF) - PARIS ORLY
• McAuliffe, Jerome J: U.S. Air Force in France 1950-1967 (2005), Chapter 14, Paris-USAF Operations.

External links

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• Aéroports de Paris (official site) Template:En icon
• Aéroport de Paris - Orly (Union des Aéroports Français) Template:Fr icon
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• Low Cost Airport Transfer/Shuttle to Disneyland Paris Template:En icon