Traffic at the Paris airports continued to recover in July, that of Orly, specialized in short and medium haul as well as overseas, even exceeding that of July 2019, its manager announced on Wednesday.
Some 9.8 million passengers passed through the platforms of the Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG) and Orly airports in July, which registered an increase in attendance of 7.5% in one year, Groupe ADP said in a statement. .
Traffic stood at 92.8% of its level in July 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic caused the fall of the air sector. With 3.2 million people, the number of passengers to or from Orly in July reached 103.1% of its 2019 level. For Roissy-Charles De Gaulle, the proportion was 88.5%, with 6.6 million passengers.
Traffic to France falls 8.8%
While traffic leaving Paris airports for countries in the Schengen area or abroad is back to its July 2019 level, traffic to France is down 8.8% in one year and 26.1 % compared to 2019. In long-haul destinations, traffic to Africa exceeded its level of three years ago (111.7%), while that of Asia-Pacific, which takes longer to recover, is only 73, 2% of its July 2019 level.
The ADP group manages, directly or through holdings, about thirty airport platforms around the world, from New Delhi to Santiago de Chile passing through Amman. In this area, traffic reached 98.6% of its 2019 level, driven by Indian airports.
Source: BFM TV
