Traffic at Paris airports recovered slightly in April after being affected by the strike against the pension reform, without returning to the trajectory of the beginning of the year, according to figures published on Wednesday. The Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG) and Orly facilities saw 8.2 million passengers through last month, or 86.5% of traffic for the same month in 2019, their manager, Groupe ADP, said. in a press release.
This ratio represents a slight improvement compared to March, when the strikes of air traffic controllers opposed to the pension reform caused the loss, according to ADP calculations, of 390,000 passengers on the two platforms, falling to 85.4% of its pre-pandemic traffic after reaching 89.3% in January and 92% in February. The data for April, the month in which the disturbances linked to the strike continued, nevertheless marks an improvement of 17.8% in one year, while many European companies and airports expect a very active summer, close to or above the levels of 2019.
Between 87% and 93% of 2019 passenger volume this year
ADP, which directly manages or through holdings about thirty airport platforms around the world, from New Delhi to Santiago de Chile passing through Amman, has almost recovered (97.9%) its passenger traffic from April 2019.
After two years of losses due to the pandemic, the group, of which the French State is a 50.6% shareholder, is largely green again in 2022, with 516 million euros of net profit. It estimates that it will be able to recover or even exceed the number of passengers received before the crisis this year on all its platforms around the world. For its Ile-de-France airports, it has set its targets between 87% and 93% of passenger volume in 2019.
Source: BFM TV
