Paris-Orly Airport
Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne) · France · Europe/Paris
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Airport HistoryEst. 1932
Orly opened in 1932 south of Paris as a secondary field to Le Bourget, and by the 1950s-60s had become France's main gateway for transatlantic travel, including record-setting Pan Am and Air France services. It survived heavy damage and Allied bombing during World War II, when the Luftwaffe and then the US Army Air Forces used it as a military airfield. Orly lost its status as France's flagship airport when Charles de Gaulle opened in 1974, but it remained a major hub for domestic and short/medium-haul European traffic for decades afterward. In 2026, after 80 years at the airport, Air France ended its mainline scheduled service at Orly to consolidate operations at Charles de Gaulle, marking the end of an era for the historic field.
The airport opened south of Paris as a secondary field to Le Bourget, built on land that had housed giant airship hangars constructed by engineer Eugène Freyssinet in the 1920s.
Occupied and used as a combat airfield by the Luftwaffe, Orly was repeatedly bombed by the RAF and USAAF; after the German retreat, US Army engineers repaired it for use as tactical airfield A-47, with the site returned to French government control in 1947.
An innovative steel-and-glass terminal building was inaugurated, later renamed Terminal 4; it helped Orly handle the boom in transatlantic travel through the 1960s.
A Boeing 707 crashed during takeoff on 3 June 1962, killing 130 of the 132 people aboard; at the time it was the deadliest single-aircraft accident on record.
The opening of CDG shifted the bulk of France's long-haul international traffic away from Orly, which was repositioned as a secondary hub for domestic and regional flights.
A new junction terminal building opened in April 2019 as part of a wider modernization of Orly's terminal complex, alongside the renaming of the West Terminal.
The Paris Métro Line 14 extension opened a new Aéroport d'Orly station on 24 June 2024, giving the airport its first direct rapid-transit rail link into central Paris.
After roughly 80 years operating from the field, Air France moved its remaining Orly flights to Charles de Gaulle, consolidating its Paris operations at a single hub.
Compiled from Wikipedia and aviation trade press (Airways Mag, One Mile at a Time, Key.Aero); the March 2026 Air France exit from Orly is a very recent development and should be reconfirmed against airline announcements before publishing.