Aéroport d'Orly: station history
Served by: metro line 14.
Did you know?
The terminus of line 14, inside Orly airport, at Paray-Vieille-Poste (Essonne), the station entered service in June 2024 as part of the Grand Paris Express. When it opened, it was the southernmost station of the Paris metropolitan network, the first in the Essonne and the first beyond the inner suburbs. It is designed as a double station, which is also to host the terminus of line 18: its future platforms, hidden by a temporary wall, are on the arrival-platform side of line 14.
Anecdote
The bas-relief by the artist Vhils, made with François Tamisier, chief architect of the ADP Group, is composed of azulejos and depicts Greater Paris, its monuments and faces, while illustrations by Edmond Baudoin decorate the platforms, below the station name. Its two 120-metre platforms are lined with walls rising to the ceiling. In 1961, the architect Henri Vicariot had planned an « Orly-Sud » station under the terminal that was never started, which fed the legend of a ghost station. Orlyval is an interchange.
Around Aéroport d'Orly
- Aéroport d'Orly, 180 m away — Paris's historic second airport, in continuous operation since the 1930s, now home to modern terminals.