Flight compensation from Paris Orly Airport
- IATA ORY — 13 km south of Paris, the capital's second airport and its busiest for domestic routes.
- Terminals were renumbered Orly 1 to 4 in 2019 and now form one connected building.
- A night curfew closes the airport from 23:30 to 06:00, and annual movements are capped by law.
Paris Orly was the capital's main airport until CDG opened, and it still handles around 30 million passengers on French domestic, overseas département, North African and short-haul European routes. Air France, Transavia France and Vueling are the biggest operators, alongside long flights to Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion. Tram T7, the Orlyval shuttle to the RER B and the extended metro line 14 all reach the terminals.
Your passenger rights
As an EU departure point, Orly falls squarely under EC 261/2004. One quirk is worth knowing: flights to Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion are legally intra-Community even though they run for more than 6,000 km, which caps compensation at €400 rather than the €600 long-haul rate. Short routes to Nice, Toulouse or Madrid sit at €250, and the three-hour test is always applied to your arrival, not your departure.
Tips for claiming
The 23:30 curfew shapes disruption at Orly: an aircraft that cannot leave before the cut-off is often cancelled outright or diverted to CDG, and a diversion obliges the airline to carry you on to Orly at its own cost. Keep any taxi or coach receipts from that transfer. Because late-evening rotations here are tight, ask for written confirmation of whether the flight was cancelled or merely delayed — the entitlements are not identical.
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