France flights: Paris-Orly (7-day MA)
France flights: Paris-Orly (7-day MA) stood at 589.3 Flights per day on Oct 18, 2026, according to EUROCONTROL – Daily Traffic Variation (IFR flights), States and Airports dashboards. It is one of the indicators in the Daily flights table (Value · Daily), with a complete series running from Jan 1, 2026 to Oct 18, 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Daily flights table
| Indicator | 18-10-2026 | 17-10-2026 | 16-10-2026 | 15-10-2026 | 14-10-2026 | 13-10-2026 | 12-10-2026 | 11-10-2026 | 10-10-2026 | 09-10-2026 | |
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| Paris-Orly | |||||||||||
| Paris-Orly: 7-day moving average | 589.3 | 588.6 | 586.7 | 589.4 | 589.4 | 586.9 | 582.9 | 584.7 | 584.7 | 583.7 | |
| Paris-Orly: flights on the same day one year earlier | 706 | 626 | 704 | 674 | 639 | 648 | 677 | 674 | 593 | 688 |
Understanding france flights: Paris-Orly (7-day MA)
The indicator provides a seven-day moving average of instrument flight rules movements recorded at the secondary capital-region aerodrome, smoothing out high-frequency weekly fluctuations. By averaging daily traffic across a rolling weekly window, the series removes the distinct weekend and mid-week surges typical of leisure-heavy and low-cost carrier operations. This highlights underlying medium-term trends at the facility without the interference of transient weather or scheduling irregularities.
Analysts rely on this smoothed measure to evaluate operational momentum at the secondary gateway free from daily noise. Because the calculation looks backward across the preceding week, rapid changes in flight schedules take several days to fully register. Users must avoid comparing this smoothed facility metric directly against unsmoothed figures when timing specific operational events.
Frequently asked questions
- How does smoothing benefit the traffic analysis of this secondary aerodrome?
- Smoothing eliminates the sharp weekend and mid-week volatility characteristic of leisure-focused carrier schedules.
- Does this moving average respond immediately to localized airport closures?
- Sudden operational halts are distributed across the seven-day window, delaying their full visual impact on the moving average line.
- Why is this aerodrome's smoothed series useful for tracking regional demand?
- It provides a stable medium-term trajectory of point-to-point commercial traffic without the distraction of daily periodicity.