Orly

Air France and SNCF have just confirmed the launch of the "Train + Air" TGV service between Bordeaux Saint-Jean and Massy TGV stations. Massy TGV provides fast access to Orly airport. The first TGVs will start operating on 15 December, the date of the second phase of deconfinement. Passengers...

Last spring, Air France undertook to suspend its operations on domestic routes. This decision applies to routes where rail offers an alternative within 2.5 hours. While CDG has its own TGV station integrated into Terminal 2, Orly passengers must go to Massy TGV station at...

The situation remains difficult for air traffic departing from Paris. So says the ADP Group in its latest traffic analysis. In October, the two Paris hubs of Orly and Roissy-CDG welcomed 2.3 million passengers. This represents a fall in traffic of 75.6 % compared with...

Le Bus Direct" coach services between Paris and its airports have been suspended since April. This decision follows the collapse of air transport due to the covid-19 crisis. The routes are unlikely to be resumed, according to their operator Keolis, in an announcement to AFP on Friday 14 August. Formerly known...

It was an election with the flavour of a plebiscite. With a turnout of 82.63% and 90.37% in favour, the SNPL, the majority union of Air France pilots, finally validated on 12 August the plan to reorganise the domestic network proposed by the management of the Air France-KLM group, after months of negotiations....

COVID-19 weighed heavily on the Air France-KLM group's results in the first half of 2020. The number of passengers carried collapsed (-62% in the first half of 2020) while capacity fell by 53% for the group (including -89% in the second quarter alone). [link-block prefix="See also:" post="90597"] The losses are therefore...

Air France is gaining momentum at Orly by resuming services to Nice as well as Biarritz and Montpellier. On the latter two routes, however, it will have to rely on the return of EasyJet. This August, EasyJet is launching a regular service between Paris airport and Biarritz and Montpellier. The decision...

Transavia had the honour of reopening the ball at Orly. 13 years after its very first flight - already to Porto - and above all 13 weeks after the closure of the Paris airport, the French airline took off for the Portuguese airport, and relaunched the machine to the south of Paris. For the occasion, as for a...

26 June will mark the reopening of Orly airport, which has been closed since the end of March. Terminal 3 will welcome 130 daily flights instead of the 650 flights on the platform as a whole. Services will be provided to Corsica, a dozen Schengen countries including Portugal and Greece, as well as the French overseas territories, i.e. the...

Between 1 and 14 March, the estimated fall in passenger traffic and the number of aircraft movements accelerated at the Paris airports, according to ADP, with an estimated decline of 29 % for the combined traffic of the two airports. But the decline has since accelerated, with the authorities estimating that air traffic...

The total capacity of the Air France and KLM entities is now down by 90%. This measure is scheduled to last for two months, although the group will have the option of adjusting capacity as the situation develops. During this period, one of the key measures is the grounding of Air France...

New measures were unveiled over the weekend to counter the spread of the coronavirus in France. In addition to the closure of all "places open to the public which are not essential to the life of the country", decreed by the Prime Minister on Saturday evening, measures relating to transport are gradually coming into force. Elisabeth Borne and Jean-Baptiste...

It was one of the events awaited by business travellers on the Air France network at the start of 2020, particularly for their business trips from Orly to business destinations such as New York or Algiers: on Thursday 16 January, the airline's brand new lounge opened its doors in Terminal 3 at...

That was thirty years ago, and what was then the Orly West terminal was home to Lufthansa flights to Germany, among others, while Hungarian Malev's planes took off for Budapest from Orly Sud. Lufthansa moved to Roissy at the end of the 80s, Malev has disappeared. From next summer, the planes...

The Worldwide by easyJet connecting service has existed since 2018 at half a dozen of the airline's bases, including Amsterdam, Berlin Tegel, Edinburgh, London-Gatwick and Milan-Malpensa. As announced by La Tribune a few days earlier, the airline will be launching a 'self connect' service at Orly, the main innovation of which is the delivery of baggage...

After Miami and Montreal, Corsair is continuing its offensive on the North American market. The airline made it official on Tuesday: it will be flying daily to New York from 10 June 2020. Corsair's brand-new Airbus A330-900 NEO, configured in three classes including a new 20-seat Business class, will leave Orly airport at...

According to information provided by the court-appointed administrator, fourteen takeover bids for Aigle Azur were submitted by midday on Monday 9 September. And, as the new Secretary of State for Transport mentioned that morning in an interview with Le Parisien, Air France, Easyjet, Vueling and also Lionel Guérin and...

It had been expected since the announcement made at the end of January: the airline will be transferring all its operations from Paris CDG to Paris Orly airport from 22 April. Timetables remain unchanged, however, with flights to Newark taking off from the South terminal at 10:30 (arriving at 13:00) and 14:25 (arriving at...