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Paris Orly Airport reopens with limited service after three-month lockdown

Orly is the French capital's second-largest hub after Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) north of Paris

Paris Orly Airport
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(FILE PIC) Paris Orly Airport | Photo: Wikipedia

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The Paris Orly Airport has reopened with limited service after nearly three months of shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first flight took off from the airport, 13 km south of Paris, at 6.25 a.m. Friday, Xinhua news agency quoted France 24 as saying.

A Transavia plane bound for the Portuguese city of Porto was sprayed by water cannons from the airport fire brigade vehicles in a so-called "water salute" ceremony before taking off, said the report.

Closed to commercial passenger traffic since April 1, the airport was expected to handle 70 flights of a dozen airlines carrying nearly