Fixed compensation
Do not assume it is automatically due. The cause, applicable passenger-rights regime and the airline's response all matter.
Paris-Orly runway works · ongoing September 2026
Paris-Orly runway closure: flight cancellations, transfers and passenger rights
Paris-Orly is operating with temporary airside capacity constraints while major runway and airfield works continue through the 2026 travel season. Reporting based on Groupe ADP information says around 3,000 flights are being cancelled or transferred to Paris Charles de Gaulle during the works, with Runway 4 closed from August until December. The programme affects different airlines and dates differently, so passengers should rely on their own booking and operating airline rather than assuming every Orly flight is disrupted.
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Use your actual itinerary and operating airline to check which passenger rights may apply. It takes you from this incident briefing to a flight-specific assessment.
Check my affected flight →What happened
Groupe ADP previously warned that Paris-Orly would face temporary airside capacity constraints during summer 2026 and through year-end because of planned work on taxiways, aircraft stands and one runway, with airlines making temporary schedule reductions or transfers to Charles de Gaulle. In June, reporting citing Aéroports de Paris said roughly 3,000 flights would be cancelled or transferred while Runway 4 is closed, with works running from 10 August until 17 December. easyJet said it had been asked, like other Orly airlines, to cancel flights during the affected period and that some of its schedule changes applied through 24 October.
Operational conditions can change quickly. Check the airline and airport for live status before travelling.
Compensation is only one part of your rights
For journeys within EU261 scope, planned schedule changes and disruption caused by airport infrastructure works do not create an automatic right to fixed compensation. Notice timing matters: a cancellation communicated more than 14 days before departure is generally outside the EU261 fixed-compensation rule, while a later cancellation still requires a flight-specific assessment of the cause, notice and airline response. Refund or rerouting rights and, where applicable, care obligations are separate from fixed compensation. Passengers should not assume either entitlement or ineligibility solely because the airport is undergoing works.
Refund or rerouting
A cancellation can create travel-remedy rights even where an extraordinary circumstance prevents fixed compensation.
Care and expenses
Where the applicable rules provide a duty of care, reasonable meals, accommodation or transport can remain separate from compensation.
What to do now
Check the operating airline before travelling and confirm whether your flight still departs from Paris-Orly or has been moved, retimed or cancelled. Keep the original booking, every schedule-change message, the airline's stated reason, any rerouting offer and itemised receipts for reasonable expenses. If your flight is cancelled close to departure, record when you were first notified because the notice period can matter to an EU261 assessment.
Check the facts of your flight
AeroDue separates the cause, itinerary and operating airline so passengers do not confuse an airport-wide incident with an automatic compensation result.
Check my affected flight →Sources used for this briefing
Groupe ADP — 2026 Orly capacity constraints and planned airside works
The Local France — around 3,000 Orly flights cancelled or transferred during runway works
Your Europe — EU air passenger rights
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