{"id":359917,"date":"2020-06-29T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359917"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:53:42","slug":"paris-orly-airport-reopens-with-limited-service-after-three-month-lockdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/paris-orly-airport-reopens-with-limited-service-after-three-month-lockdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Orly Airport reopens with limited service after three-month lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris Orly Airport has reopened with limited service after nearly three months of shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first flight took off from the airport, 13 km south of Paris, at 6.25 a.m. Friday, Xinhua news agency quoted France 24 as saying.<\/p>\n<p>A Transavia plane bound for the Portuguese city of Porto was sprayed by water cannons from the airport fire brigade vehicles in a so-called &#8220;water salute&#8221; ceremony before taking off, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Closed to commercial passenger traffic since April 1, the airport was expected to handle 70 flights of a dozen airlines carrying nearly 8,000 passengers on Friday. Before the pandemic, the airport had handled a daily average of 600 flights and 90,000 passengers. For now, only the airport&#8217;s Orly 3 sector is operational. Sectors 1, 2 and 4 will reopen later as demand increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris Orly Airport has reopened with limited service after nearly three months of shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first flight took off from the airport, 13 km south of Paris, at 6.25 a.m. Friday, Xinhua news agency quoted France 24 as saying. A Transavia plane bound for the Portuguese city of Porto was sprayed by water cannons from the airport fire brigade vehicles in a so-called &#8220;water salute&#8221; ceremony before taking off, said the report. Closed to commercial passenger traffic since April 1, the airport was expected to handle 70 flights of a dozen airlines carrying nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}