Air traffic will be prohibited within a radius of 150 km around Paris on the evening of July 26, 2024, during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, we learned on Monday from the General Directorate of Civil Aviation.
“During the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday July 26, 2024, a strict temporary prohibition zone, with a radius of 150 km and without altitude limit, will be set up around Paris between 7:00 p.m. and midnight,” specified the DGAC to AFP.
It will be necessary to “postpone” or “circumvent”
This measure will therefore interrupt the operations of the two largest French airports, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly, but also Beauvais (Oise), specialized in low-cost flights, at the start of a weekend in full high summer season.
“Apart from emergency services flights and flights which may benefit, exceptionally, from an exemption granted by the Air and Space Force, no flight (neither take-off, nor landing, nor overflight) will not be permitted in this airspace during the mentioned time slot,” insisted the DGAC.
From the same source, “usual users, airlines, professionals and individuals, will be invited to postpone their activity or to bypass this zone during the period in question”.
Other measures announced in 2024
Traffic regulations “will be implemented from 5:00 p.m. on Friday July 26,” the DGAC also explained. Other measures governing air traffic will be put in place during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Currently being developed, they will be clarified in spring 2024, according to the administration.
This assured that “the search for the best balance between maintaining aviation activity and guaranteeing the safety of users and people directs the action of this work”.