Orly

This is the question that regularly stirs the political and media spheres when Paris and the Ile-de-France region are discussed: how do residents, tourists and business travellers get around the capital, how satisfied are they, and how much room is there for improvement? With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games just around the corner, the...

The idea was put forward last spring by Valérie Pécresse, President of the Ile-de-France region and of IDF Mobilité: a special fare will apply to travel to Orly airport via the extension of line 14 once it is brought into service in June 2024. The fare will be €11.50 per journey in a...

The Train + Air service gives passengers a single reservation for their entire journey, combining rail and air. Above all, it guarantees them a seat on the next flight or train in the event of delays, free of charge. Last year, the service even entered the digital age, with...

Orly is currently the most dynamic airport in Paris. The airport recorded 24.72 million passengers in the first three quarters of 2023. This represents an increase of 14.5% over one year. But above all, it represents an increase - albeit modest - of 0.3% compared with the same 9 months of 2019, the last...

The news came on Wednesday, in a completely official statement from the airline: Air France will indeed be leaving Orly. The timetable drawn up by Air France management has made 2026 the pivotal year for turning this page in history. By this date, the airline plans to operate all its flights...

Meeting as an inter-union group at the end of August, the eight main French trade unions announced their intention to make Friday 13 October a day of action on pay, gender equality and environmental protection. This cross-industry strike action is likely to cause a great deal of disruption in French skies between Thursday evening and Saturday...

The arrival of the winter season will see an increase in long-haul routes on the Transavia network. These include routes to Africa and the Middle East, but also, for the first time, to the Gulf - in particular Dubai. To Africa, the low-cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group will be launching services to Cape Town at the end of October...

Like the athletes preparing to compete at Paris 2024, the authorities in charge of transport are stepping up their preparations. And in the absence of a training programme, French aviation now has an action plan. This was unveiled on Monday, with Clément Beaune and Olivia Grégoire taking the opportunity to visit Orly. An airport...

Air France, Air Liquide, Novotel, Sécuritas, Suez: these are just some of the 33 signatories of the alliance unveiled this week by the ADP Group. This "Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance" is designed to position the Paris airport at the forefront of the sector's environmental transformation. Justine Coutard explains the approach as follows: "With the creation of the Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance,...

Reconciling the filming of a blockbuster or the next hit series with the normal running of an international airport: it's not an impossible task... Provided you bring together a cast of specialists. This is the role of Paris Aéroport Studios, set up by the ADP Group. Here we meet Céline Bianchi, who is in charge of the project for the airport...

Since the beginning of 2023, Aéroports de Paris (ADP Group) and the Border Police (PAF) have entered a new era together: one of cooperation that aims to be both qualitative and quantitative. On the latter point, a new tool has been put in place, with a brand new...

With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Tuesday 28 March, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to...

Updated on 24 March at 1pm While industrial action against pension reform has been causing disruption in French skies since the start of the week, it is expected to continue until at least 27 March. And not just at Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence, the two airports which have seen the most disruption...

Updated on 20 March at 4.30pm The disruption caused by industrial action against pension reform is continuing in the transport sector. A strike by air traffic controllers on Monday 20 March prompted the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) to ask airlines to reduce their flight schedules at Paris-Orly...

Updated on 14 March at 6.30pm. The first few days of the week saw traffic return to normal on the Paris metro, although there were still slight disruptions on the RER and Transilien lines. But what will happen on Wednesday 15 March, when a new call for a general strike has been issued by the...

(Article updated on 28/02) Azul is Brazil's third largest airline on domestic routes, accounting for 25% of all airlines in the country. It is now turning its attention to the international market. From its base at Sao Paulo Viracopos International (Campinas), the carrier flies to Florida, Uruguay and...

So it's going to be another complex day for mobile professionals. The strike against pension reform is leading to a new strike action on 7 February. RATP is expecting major traffic disruption on the Paris metro. Almost all lines will be affected on Tuesday, with the exception of lines 1, 14...

A tweet from Fnaut Ile-de-France, the transport users' association, has once again put the spotlight on the Orly TGV station project. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, also "liked" the tweet. Unlike previous projects, which placed the station as close as possible to or even underneath the southern Paris airport,...

On Thursday 15 December, Transavia France announced the reinforcement of its 2023 summer schedule. The low-cost subsidiary of the Air France group will be launching 7 new international routes. From its Paris-Orly base, the airline is offering flights to four new destinations for the first time. Paphos (Cyprus) will benefit from one flight a week...

Vueling has just announced two new routes departing from Paris Orly this winter, as well as the extension of the Orly-Asturias route launched this summer. The latter route will continue to be served twice weekly. Vueling also plans to launch two further weekly flights from Asturias (Spain) to Amsterdam on 30 October. The flights will be...