Luxury Transfers, Effortless Journeys
Luxury Transfers, Effortless Journeys
The practical Orly airport guide: which of the four terminals you actually land in, how they connect, how long the drive into Paris really takes, and where a chauffeur can meet you. Written by the team that works Orly every day.
Orly sits 13 km south of Paris, against the A6. Charles de Gaulle sits 25 km north east. That single fact decides which airport suits you: if you are staying on the Left Bank, in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th or 15th, or heading for Versailles or the Loire, Orly is the shorter and calmer run.
It is also a smaller airport to walk. Since 2019 the four terminals sit under one roof, joined by the Orly 3 junction building, so a change of terminal is a walk rather than a shuttle ride. There is no equivalent of the CDGVAL, and none is needed.
What Orly does have is a traffic profile that catches people out. It handles a dense wave of short and medium haul departures from early morning, and the A6 into Paris carries the whole southern suburb at the same hours. A 7 am landing and a 7 pm landing are two different journeys.
Terminal maps and live information are published by Paris Aéroport, and public transport routes to Orly airport are detailed by Île-de-France Mobilités.
Four terminals, one building. The old names, Orly Ouest and Orly Sud, disappeared in 2019 and you will still hear them from taxi drivers.
Part of the former West terminal, arranged over two levels with arrivals and baggage reclaim on level 0 and departures on level 1. Gates A and B.
The other half of the former West terminal, sharing the same arrivals level as Orly 1. Gates C. Between them the two hold twenty-three jet-bridge stands, some sized for wide bodies.
Not really a terminal in its own right but the building that ties the other three together, with around 5,000 square metres of shops, restaurants and lounges. Gates D and E lead through to the Orly 4 departure area.
The 1961 steel and glass building, six floors, arrivals and services on level 0 and airside departure gates E and F on level 1. Fifteen jet-bridge gates sized for wide bodies, which is where the long haul sits.
The practical consequence: whichever terminal your ticket says, you can walk to any other. Give us the number anyway, because arrivals halls are at opposite ends of a long building and we would rather be at the right door.
Journey times as they stand in September 2026. Orly is the closest of the Paris airports, which flatters every option on this list.
| Option | Time to central Paris | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Metro line 14 | around 25 min | Direct to Châtelet since 2024, roughly every six minutes, last trains around half past midnight and an hour later on Friday and Saturday. Genuinely good, if you are travelling light. |
| Orlyval then RER B | 35 to 45 min | The older route, an automatic shuttle to Antony then the RER. Two changes with luggage, and largely made redundant by line 14. |
| Tram T7 | 45 to 55 min | Slow, and it drops you at Villejuif to pick up metro 7. Fine without bags, awkward with them. |
| Official taxi | 25 to 40 min | You queue at the rank. No name board, no help with luggage, and the car you get is the car at the front. |
| Ride hailing app | 25 to 40 min | Pickup is in a designated area rather than at arrivals, so you go and find the car. The driver takes the job minutes ahead and can cancel. |
| Private chauffeur | 25 to 40 min | Met inside arrivals with a name board, flight tracked, 60 minutes of free waiting, luggage handled, and the price agreed before you fly. |
Drive times from Orly airport, door to door, outside peak: Left Bank 25 to 40 minutes, Champs-Élysées and the 8th 35 to 50, La Défense 40 to 60, Versailles 30 to 45, Disneyland Paris 50 to 70, CDG 55 to 80. Rates for each are on the Orly transfer page.
As at every Paris airport, kerbside waiting is controlled. The meeting point is inside the building, at the exit of your baggage hall.
Flight number and terminal, 1, 2, 3 or 4, as printed on the boarding pass.
Arrival tracked live. Early, late or diverted, the pickup moves with it at no cost.
Your chauffeur waits on level 0 at the exit of the baggage hall, with a name board.
Luggage assistance included. The car is a short walk away, never left at the kerb.
Route chosen on live traffic, because the A6 decides how this journey goes.
Orly Ouest became Orly 1 and Orly 2. Orly Sud became Orly 4. The names changed in 2019 but they are still in circulation, particularly on older booking confirmations and with taxi drivers.
Yes, roughly half the distance. Orly is 13 km south, Charles de Gaulle 25 km north east. For the Left Bank the difference is stark. For La Défense or the north of the city it narrows, because the ring road takes back what the distance gave.
No. Since the Orly 3 junction building opened in 2019 the four terminals are connected under one roof and you walk between them. Allow about ten minutes end to end, more with heavy bags.
Nothing on your side. We track the flight and move the pickup. Sixty minutes of waiting after landing are included, which covers baggage on any Orly arrival comfortably.
Yes, and it is a common request when a connection falls between airports. Orly to CDG runs 55 to 80 minutes and crosses the whole city, so it needs planning rather than improvising. Le Bourget is quoted on request.
If the fare and the schedule are similar, take Orly airport for anything south or central and CDG for anything north, for La Défense, or for a long haul connection. On a Friday evening the choice matters more than the airline.
Price agreed before you fly. Flight tracked, met inside arrivals with a name board, 60 minutes of free waiting, luggage handled. All four Orly terminals, every hour of the day.
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