Orly Airport
international airport serving Paris, France
Paris Orly Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Orly, pronounced [aeʁɔpɔʁ də paʁi ɔʁli]; IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO) is one of two international airports serving Paris, France, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in and named after Orly, 13 kilometres (8 mi; 7 nmi) south of Paris.
The airport served as the secondary hub for Air France until March 2026, handling many flights to domestic and overseas French territories. Most of these services have transferred to Charles de Gaulle Airport, with domestic routes from Orly handed over to the airline's low-cost subsidiary, Transavia France. Public service obligation (PSO) routes from the airport to Corsica continue to be operated by Air France. Orly operates flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and North America.
Before the opening of CDG in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Even with the shift of most international traffic to CDG, Orly remains the busiest French airport for domestic traffic and the second busiest French airport overall in passenger traffic, with 34,928,909 passengers in 2025. It is served by Aéroport d'Orly station of the Paris Metro.
Location
Orly Airport covers 15.3 km2 (5.9 sq mi) of land.
“Orly Airport” enters the record as international airport serving Paris, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orly, Airport and international can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q223416. VIAF identifies the subject as 141860532. The Library of Congress control number is n50002364. Authority coordinates are 48.723, 2.379. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2026, 1974 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “Orly Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.