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Orlyval

Year opened

1991

Last extension

1991

Rolling stock

VAL 206

Stations served

Length

7.3 km (4.5 mi)

Average interstation

3,650 m

Journeys made

2,500,000 (per annum)

Paris public transport
Métro lines
	line 1	line 7bis
	line 2	line 8
	line 3	line 9
	line 3bis	line 10
	line 4	line 11
	line 5	line 12
	line 6	line 13
	line 7	line 14
RER lines
	line A	line D
	line B	line E
	line C
Suburban rail (Transilien)
	Saint-Lazare	Nord
	La Défense	Est
	Montparnasse	Lyon
Airport shuttles
	CDGVAL	Orlyval
Bus
	Bus (RATP)	Noctilien
	Bus (Optile)
Tramway
	Tramway T1	Tramway T2
	Tramway T3	Tramway T4
Other
Montmartre funicular

Orlyval is a small automatic metro which runs a shuttle service to Paris's Orly Airport from the RER network, with which it connects at Antony station on line RER B.

An Orlyval shuttle arriving at the Orly - Sud station

It was opened on October 2, 1991, the second line to use the VAL automatic metro.

The construction was controversial: the competing proposal for a public transport link to the airport involved a railway line integrated to the RER network, which would have allowed trains from various origins to serve the airport. The shuttle option was seen as the least integrated with the rest of the network. However, the small size of the VAL allowed to build the stations, in particular Orly - Ouest, at the same level and very close to the terminals.

Initially it was run privately by Matra, but because construction and operating costs were too high to generate profits, the line was later passed over to the publicly owned RATP. It remains, however, the only public transport link in the Paris region on which the Carte Orange travel pass is not valid.