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.<\/p>\n
According to its operator Keolis, the lines are unlikely to resume, <\/strong>in an announcement to AFP on Friday 14 August.<\/p>\n Formerly known as \"Cars Air France\", this service offered four routes between the capital and the two Paris airports. The service ran from Orly to Paris Etoile\/Champs-Elys\u00e9es, from CDG to Paris Gare Montparnasse and from Paris to Tour Eiffel. Finally, \"Le Bus Direct\" offered a non-stop service between Orly and Roissy (CDG).<\/p>\n These coach routes were operated without subsidy by Keolis (an SNCF subsidiary), which had signed a specific agreement with A\u00e9roports de Paris (ADP).<\/p>\n Service to Orly was suspended on 1 April<\/strong> when the airport closed, then the one at Roissy six days later<\/strong> for lack of customers. \"We tried to hold on as long as we could, but we had no-one left on our lines\", J\u00e9r\u00f4me Dupont, Director, told AFP.<\/p>\n A reopening had been planned for 15 June. However, this was postponed until July due to a sharp fall in demand. The gloomy economic situation forced Keolis to take the decision to pull out. The urban transport operator is facing a serious crisis and is having to restructure its business.<\/p>\n For travellers, there are always alternative lines operated by RATP and SNCF<\/strong>. They include several bus routes as well as the RER B line linking Orly to Roissy via Paris, as well as the RER C and a tramway line at Orly.<\/p>\n In the future, the airport in the south of Paris should be linked directly by the metro line 14. This line is currently being extended between Olympiades and Orly via Kremlin-Bic\u00eatre, Villejuif and the MIN de Rungis. Entry into service is scheduled for mid-2024.<\/p>\n At Roissy-CDG, construction of metro line 17 between Saint Denis and the hub via Le Bourget is planned for around 2030.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keolis is closing its doors at Orly and Roissy CDG with the suspension of these coach services.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,63],"tags":[1953,1973,2013],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-98455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilite","category-deplacements-urbains","tag-cdg","tag-ratp","tag-orly","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMore public transport in the long term<\/span><\/h2>\n