Orly

The Canton of Orly (French: canton d'Orly) is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Orly.It consists of the following communes: Ablon-sur-Seine Orly Villeneuve-le-Roi

Varig Flight 820 was a flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 11, 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The plane, a Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing on onion fields about four kilometers from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a fire in a lavatory. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors (ten crew members and one passenger).

Orly – Ville is a station in Paris' express suburban rail system, the RER. It serves the commune of Orly, in the Val-de-Marne department.

Paris Store or Paristore is an Asian supermarket situated in France in the region of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Roubaix, Strasbourg, Toulouse, and Tours. It has more than 20 branches, including one in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, situated near Tang Frères, another supermarket selling Asian food.

The canton of Thiais is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Thiais.It consists of the following communes: Chevilly-Larue Rungis Thiais

Thiais–Orly station is an underground station on Line 14 of the Paris Métro. It is part of the Grand Paris Express project. The station is located in the town of Thiais, on the outskirts of Orly Airport. It opened on 24 June 2024 as part of the southern extension of Line 14 from Olympiades to Aéroport d'Orly.

Pont de Rungis–Aéroport d'Orly is an RER station in Thiais, in the départment of Val-de-Marne. The station is served by RER C trains, some of which terminate at the station. The station is connected to both terminals of Paris-Orly Airport by the ADP (Aéroport de Paris) shuttle bus service. It is proposed that the Paris Métro Line 14 be extended towards the Orly Airport, and the Line 14 will have a stop at Pont de Rungis. The extension is foreseen to open around 2024.

Thiais (French pronunciation: [tjɛ] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.3 km (6.4 mi) from the center of Paris.The name Thiais comes from Medieval Latin Theodasium or Theodaxium, meaning "estate of Theodasius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. The Austrian writer Joseph Roth, exiled due to his opposition to the Nazi regime, lived at Thiais at the end of the 1930s and is buried at the local cemetery. The tomb of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin is also there. Expatriate American journalist and novelist William Gardner Smith died there in 1974.

The canton of Choisy-le-Roi is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Choisy-le-Roi.It consists of the following communes: Choisy-le-Roi Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (partly)

Paris Orly Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly (IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO), is an international airport located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, 13 km (8.1 mi) south of Paris, France. It serves as a secondary hub for domestic and overseas territories flights of Air France and as the homebase for Transavia France. Flights operate to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. Before the opening of Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1974, Orly was the main airport of Paris. Even with the shift of most international traffic to Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly remains the busiest French airport for domestic traffic and the second busiest French airport overall in passenger traffic, with 33,120,685 passengers in 2018. The airport is operated by Groupe ADP under the brand Paris Aéroport. Since February 2018, the CEO of the airport has been Régis Lacote.

The 1978 Orly Airport attack was a shoot-out that took place on 20 May 1978 in the Paris Orly Airport, France as three terrorists armed with submachine guns opened fire at the El Al boarding gate. The terrorists were also reportedly carrying grenades and plastic explosives in the shoot-out that lasted for 25 minutes. Two people including one police officer were killed before the three terrorists were shot and killed by French police and Israeli security guards. Five people waiting to board a nearby Iberia flight to Malaga were wounded. The airport was evacuated for about three hours after the attack. According to Israeli sources the group behind the attack was a unit headed by Abu Nidal which cooperated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The Orly Airport attack was the 15 July 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport in Paris, by the Armenian militant organization ASALA as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide. The explosion killed eight people and injured 55.