Originally Posted by
San Gottardo
As I have a flight from ORY coming up I tried once more to understand the layout of the airport and any logic that might exist behind gate usage.
What I think understood and where I have questions:
- A gates: used by Iberia, TAP, Vueling, Air Malta, and a very small number of AF flights operated by HOP regional planes (e.g., Toulon). Got it ^
- B gates: located in the Northern "headhouse",the place where AF has always had its Navette operations. Used by Air France for domestic flights, both Navette and not, on Airbus planes. All domestic destinations except some - but not all - flights to Corsica. Air Corsica also has all of its flights here. Got it ^
- C 14-20: these gates are non-Schengen, located in the Southern "headhouse". They used to be used by AF for long haul flights as well as BA/OpenSkies/LEVEL. Now they don't seem to be used any more at all ?
- C11-12, C21-27: these are Schengen gates. Used for all Air Europa flights and a very small number of AF flights (some HOP regional jets, and some mainline flights to Corsica). But where are these gates physically located? They can't all be bus gates, so which jetty gates do these gates correspond to?
- D gates: these are non-Schengen gates, located in the newly constructed building between what used to be Orly Ouest and Sud. They used by Air France long haul, LEVEL, Pegasus, and Transavia non-Schengen flights. Got it ^
- E gates: these are Schengen gates, some of which are the same as the D gates but dual-use and located in the newly constructed building, plus some gates in the Western part of what used to be Orly Sud. Got it ^
- F gates: these are non-Schengen gates, basically the gates that always used to be non-Schengen gates of Orly Sud, with all the occupants that were always there: Corsair, Air Caraibes, FrenchBee, Air Algerie, etc. ^
- What I am also missing: which gates does easyjet use?
One of the keys to making sense of the new Orly layout is to forget about thinking that the land-side (Orly 1, 2, 3, 4) has any strict alignment with the airside (Gates A, B, C, D, E, F). Some do, some don't.
Which still leaves quite a bit of confusion, so if anyone has found out how this works I'd be curious to hear more about it. Thanks
Almost right! In fact Air Europa and EasyJet stays at Orly 2 and the C gates (i don't know if EasyJet operates any non-schengen flights from Orly).
All AF/XK flights move away from C-gates, with AF/XK Corsica flights moving to Orly 3 and E-Gates, as well as AF flights to NTE and LYS (dont ask me why exactly these two). The remaining domestic AF flights are in Orly 1 A & B gates. Transavia also uses E gates for Schengen flights, making Orly 3 Schengen an almost pure AFKL Group affair (only 2-3 DY flights remain at E Gates with Orly 4 Check-in)
As for C gates, the schengen jettys C11 and C12 correspond to the old Hall 3 schengen shed (later connected to and made part of Hall 4), while C21, C22 and C23 are jetways located in Hall 4 but that could be used by heavies from Hall 3 when needed. The remaining C Schengen gates are bus gates.
Here is an image from Paris Aeroport showing the distribution of airlines:
Also this image does make it seem like Orly 2 (ex-Hall 3/4) will be converted into a pure Schengen terminal:
I hope this helps clear up ever so slightly the confusions, even though it does remain rather confusing
