A first plane took off Friday at 6:25 am from Orly, after nearly three months of airport closure due to the collapse of air traffic paralyzed by the coronavirus crisis, an AFP journalist found.
The aircraft of the company Transavia was watered by the water cannons of the airport fire engines during a ceremony known as "water salute" before taking off - bound for Porto - from the airport closed to flights commercial on the evening of March 31 following the sudden drop in air traffic. It fell 98% in May at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, where all commercial flights were combined during the peak of the Covid-19 crisis.