| Paris-Orly Airport Aéroport de Paris-Orly |
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| IATA: ORY – ICAO: LFPO | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aéroports de Paris | ||
| Serves | Paris | ||
| Location | Seven cities in Essonne and Val-de-Marne | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 291 ft / 89 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 02/20 | 2,400 | 7,874 | Concrete |
| 06/24 | 3,650 | 11,975 | Bituminous concrete |
| 08/26 | 3,320 | 10,892 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 25,203,969 | ||
| Source: French AIP[1] French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] Statistics[3] |
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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, 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) south[2] of Paris, France. It has flights to cities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Southeast Asia. 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 traffic, with 25,204,000 in 2010.[3]
Orly Airport extends over 15.3 square kilometres (5.9 sq mi) 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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Orly Airport has two terminals: West and South.
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Aigle Azur | Agadir, Algiers, Annaba, Bamako, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Djanet, Djerba, Funchal, Lisbon, Oran, Ouagadougou, Porto, Setif, Tamanrasset, Tlemcen | South |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Tamanrasset, Tlemcen | South |
| AirAsia X | Kuala Lumpur | South |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel | South |
| Air Burkina | Ouagadougou | South |
| Air Caraïbes Atlantique | Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Martin, Port-au-Prince | South |
| Air Europa | Alicante, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South | West |
| Air France | Ajaccio, Basel/Mulhouse, Bastia, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Calvi, Cayenne, Clermont-Ferrand, Figari, Fort-de-France, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice, Pau, Perpignan, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse | West |
| Air France operated by Air Corsica | Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari | West |
| Air France operated by Airlinair | Berne, Lyon Seasonal: Limoges |
West |
| Air France operated by Brit Air | Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Lorient, Lourdes/Tarbes, Lyon, Montpellier, Pau, Perpignan, Quimper, Rodez, Strasbourg | West |
| Air France operated by CityJet | London-City, Nantes | West |
| Air Ivoire | Abidjan | South |
| Air Mali | Bamako | South |
| Air Malta | Malta | West |
| Air Méditerranée | Oran, Palma de Mallorca, Tunis Seasonal: Bodrum Charter: Agadir, Málaga, Marrakech, Oujda, Tangier |
South |
| Airlinair | Agen, Aurillac, Brive, Castres, Lannion | South |
| Airlinair operated by Chalair Aviation | Annecy, Caen, La Rochelle | South |
| Alitalia | Milan-Linate | West |
| Alitalia operated by Air One | Milan-Linate | West |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | West |
| Corsairfly | Antananarivo, Dakar, Fort-de-France, Mauritius, Miami, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Saint-Martin Seasonal: Dzaoudzi, Montréal-Trudeau |
South |
| Cubana de Aviación | Havana, Santiago de Cuba | South |
| EasyJet | Athens, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest [ends 24 March 2012], Faro, Milan-Linate, Naples, Nice, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Toulouse Seasonal:Brindisi, Cagliari [begins 4 July 2012], Dubrovnik, Mykonos, Olbia, Palermo, Rhodes [begins 3 July 2012] |
South |
| EasyJet operated by EasyJet Switzerland | Geneva, Venice-Marco Polo | South |
| Europe Airpost | Barcelona, Errachidia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malta, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Fiumicino, Tangier, Vienna, Zurich Chartered Seasonal: Almería, Banjul, Ibiza, Lampedusa, Ouarzazate, Rabat, Zakynthos |
South |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton | West |
| Hex'Air | Le Puy | South |
| Iberia | Madrid, Tenerife-South | West |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Albacete, Badajoz, Burgos, Ibiza, León, Madrid, Salamanca, Valladolid, Zaragoza | West |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | South |
| Jet4you | Agadir, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Oujda, Rabat | South |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki [begins 20 April 2012], Oslo-Gardermoen | South |
| OpenSkies | Newark | South |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen | South |
| Royal Air Maroc | Agadir, Casablanca, Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Rabat, Tangier | South |
| SATA International | Funchal | South |
| Syrian Air | Aleppo, Damascus | South |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto | West |
| Transavia.com France | Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Bodrum, Canée, Catania, Djerba, Féz, Funchal, Granada, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza [begins 30 May 2012], Izmir, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luxor, Marrakech, Monastir, Mykonos, Oujda, Palermo, Porto, Rhodes, Santorini, Seville, Taba, Tangier, Tenerife-South, Tozeur Charter: Cap Skiring, Dakar, Ivalo Seasonal: Reykjavik-Keflavik [10] |
South |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Sfax, Tozeur, Tunis | South |
| Twin Jet | Bergerac, Périgueux | West |
| Vueling | Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao [begins 25 March 2012], Florence [begins 26 March 2012], Ibiza, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Fiumicino, Seville, Valencia, Zurich | West |
AOM French Airlines had its head office in Orly Airport Building 363 in Paray-Vieille-Poste.[11][12][13] After AOM and Air Liberté merged in 2001,[14] the new airline, Air Lib, occupied building 363.[15]
Orly Airport is connected to the A106 autoroute (extension of the A6 autoroute).
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.
As a result of the Battle of France in 1940, Orly Airport was used by the occupying German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield, stationing various fighter and bomber units at the airport throughout the occupation.[16] As a result, Orly was repeatedly attacked by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force (USAAF), destroying much of its infrastructure, and leaving its runways with numerous bomb craters to limit its usefulness by the Germans.
After the Battle of Normandy and the retreat of German forces from the Paris area in August 1944, Orly was partially repaired by USAAF combat engineers and was used by Ninth Air Force as tactical airfield A-47. The 50th Fighter Group flew P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber aircraft from the airport until September, then liaison squadrons used the airfield until October 1945.[17]
The American United States Army Air Force 1408th Army Air Force Base Unit was the primary operator at Orly Field until March 1947 when control was returned to the French Government. (The United States Air Force leased a small portion of the Airport to support Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at Rocquencourt). The Americans left in 1967 as a result of France's withdrawal from NATO's integrated military command, and all non-French NATO forces were asked to leave France.[18]
On 3 June 1962, Air France Flight F-BHSM, a chartered Boeing 707 named the Chateau de Sully, bound for Atlanta, U.S., crashed on take off with 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-Galeão. 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).[19]
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 on board.
On 13 January 1975, several men, including Ilich Ramírez Sánchez AKA Carlos the Jackal, made an unsuccessful Rocket-Propelled Grenade 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 JAT McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which had just disembarked passengers from Zagreb. The men tried again on 19 January, again without success when police spotted the terrorists and opened fire with a submachine gun.
On 20 May 1978, three terrorists opened fire on El Al passengers in the departure lounge. All three terrorists were killed, along with one policeman and three French tourists were also injured.[20]
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.