Still 15 % of flights canceled this Monday – Liberation
After a final complicated day, it’s time for returning to normal at Orly airport. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the « Full of the flight program » will be provided in the coming days.
Monday, May 19 will therefore have been the last cancellations for passengers at Paris-Orly airport, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) Having asked Sunday evening It is up to airlines to cancel 15 % of their flights for this day, due to an air traffic control breakdown on Sunday and not yet resolved.
The fault of a breakdown that affected airport traffic on Sunday afternoon, causing the cancellation of 40 % of flights from 4 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. « Following the dysfunction noted in the air traffic control system of the Tour de Paris-Orly this Sunday, May 18, the situation is in the process of improving but nevertheless requires the maintenance of a regulation of air traffic », said the DGAC in the morning.
On Sunday, approximately 130 flights were canceled, according to Aéroports de Paris (ADP). Thousands of passengers who were to take off from Orly or land there saw their flight canceled at the last minute, sometimes even when they were already installed on the plane. « We were on the plane, all seated and surrounded, ready to leave, when they made us disembark and collect our luggage … then struggle », told AFP, Azgal Abichou, 63 -year -old business manager.
Paris-Orly airport, located 10 kilometers south of the French capital, saw more than 33 million passengers pass in 2024, half less than Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, located about twenty kilometers to the north, according to figures published by ADP.
Update Monday May 19 with the restoration of trafficking
