After almost three months of sleep, the airport Orly restarts slowly, but surely. A first plane of the airline company Transavia took off from the tarmac at 6: 25 pm in the direction of Porto. Before takeoff, the aircraft was sprayed with water by fire trucks of the airport during the traditional ceremony of ” water salute “.
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The site is closed to commercial flights since march 31, the evening following the sharp fall in air traffic. The latter has declined from 98 % in may to Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, where all commercial flights have been grouped during the peak of the crisis in the Covid-19. The restart of the traffic will be extremely slow, has already warned ADP. The image of the forecasts of the international air transport Association (Iata), which anticipates the global recovery in first on domestic flights, and on flights with continental, and finally on the intercontinental flights, with traffic that will not return until 2023 at the level of 2019.
70 aircraft movements expected at Orly
Friday, at Orly, a little more than 70 aircraft movements are expected – compared with an average of 600 in normal times – provided by 8 companies (Air Caraïbes, Air Corsica, Air France, Amelia, Corsair, the French Bee, Transavia and Wizzair). These flights will serve including the island of Corsica, some of the countries of the Schengen area and overseas.
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Approximately 8 000 passengers are expected to be less than 10 % of the common traffic of 90 000 passengers per day on average on this airport. The number of movements had to climb up the 173 at the beginning of July, but their progression is still uncertain, related to the unknown of the opening or not of borders, in particular in the Maghreb, and the evolution of the health situation.
partial Reopening
The reopening of the airport will therefore be partial. All flights will be initially grouped in Orly 3, the terminal brand new open there is a little more than a year. And then will re-open gradually Orly 4, 1 and 2. In may, the traffic has fallen from 97.8 % at CDG, with only 200 000 passengers are welcomed.
To give confidence to passengers, airlines and airports have put in place sanitary measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Over 7 000 posters and stickers to mark the distancing physics have been applied to Orly, 150 distributors of gel and 137 plexiglas installed on all check-in counters, banks of check-in and boarding.
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A thermal camera to take temperature of travelers upon arrival to detect any cases of infection by the coronavirus. Almost all the shops Orly 3 will be open as soon as Friday, with a few exceptions, such as a candy store for self-service. Points of cash mobile will be deployed in stores ” duty free “, gift baskets, and cloth were replaced by baskets of metal to be able to be disinfected regularly, as the testers of perfume.
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