REPORTAGE
"It is true that without planes, it is an idyllic neighborhood!" After three months off, it's time to resume at Orly airport. A very gradual recovery, since only terminal 3 reopens. Concretely, 70 flights are planned this Friday, or 10% of the traffic. Good news for a sector very affected by the coronavirus crisis, but much less for the 500,000 local residents who were used to the songs of birds instead of reactors.
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"We lived it as a period that we dared not even imagine"
It was indeed a real auditory parenthesis for the inhabitants of Sucy-en-Brie, in Val-de-Marne, about fifteen kilometers as the crow flies from the big sister of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle. Sleep an hour more, have lunch in the garden without the conversation being interrupted every three minutes ... everyone got a taste of it in this town of just over 25,000 inhabitants. "We lived it as a period that we dared not even imagine", confirms at the microphone of Europe 1 Luc Offenstein, vice-president of the defense collective of the residents of Orly airport.
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"When there are no more planes, we realize that we are in a beautiful city"
"I've been thinking for years that we can't continue to live under planes like that, it's unbearable. But when there are no more planes, it's something else, we realize that 'we are in a beautiful city. " So the locals only hope for one thing, "that it will never be the same again". For its part, the airport management promises a very slow recovery and indicates that a maximum of 125 daily flights are planned for July.
If we are far from the pre-coronavirus rate of an airplane every three minutes from 6 am to 11 pm, 365 days a year, the inhabitants know that the parenthesis is coming to an end.