With just one year to go before Paris hosts the Olympic Games, one of the city's airports suffered an unprecedented breakdown Thursday that led to a mountain of luggage piling up and delayed flights.
A breakdown in the luggage-sorting equipment at terminal four of Orly airport meant that baggage had to be handled by hand.
This photograph taken on August 3, 2023, shows a view of the entrance of the Orly 4 terminal with a sign indicating the other Orly terminals and passangers waiting next to baggage carts stacked with luggage, after a technical incident at the Paris-Orly Airport, in Orly, south of Paris. According to Marc Rochet, head of the French Bee and Air Caraibes airlines using the affected terminal, flights took off with delays between one and three hours -- and without luggage that had been checked in.The luggage in the terminal will be transferred to a secure hangar and then put on following flights.
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