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Traffic at Paris’ two major airports Charles de Gaulle and Orly returned to 90 per cent of pre-Covid levels during the first half of 2023 as they gear up for next year’s Olympic games in the city.
Results from Paris Aéroport, which runs both airports as well as Le Bourget, show that total passengers numbers rose by 25.7 per cent year-on-year to 47.1 million during the first six months of the year.
Orly’s recovery continues to be ahead of Paris’ main hub Charles de Gaulle at 95.8 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, while CDG is still 12.5 per cent behind 2019 traffic. During the six-month period, Orly catered for 15.3 million passengers while traffic at CDG reached 31.8 million.
Paris Aéroport is owned by Groupe ADP, which also runs airports in several other countries such as Turkey, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, North Macedonia, India, Indonesia and Chile.
Augustin de Romanet, who is chairman and CEO of Groupe ADP, said that traffic at Paris Aéroport’s airports was expected to reach 93 per cent of 2019’s levels during 2023.
De Romanet also talked about the challenges facing the two airports next year as Paris gets ready to host the Olympic games.
“During summer 2024 especially, the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games will start and end in our airports for many people: it is a wonderful challenge for the whole airport community, as well as for our territories, and a unique opportunity to demonstrate our expertise and commitment,” he added.
Groupe ADP catered for total traffic of 155.4 million passengers across all its global operations – a 30 per cent increase on the first half of 2022 and an overall recovery rate of 97.3 per cent on 2019’s figures.
The company achieved a net profit of €211 million during the first half of 2023, up by 32 per cent from €160 million in the previous year.
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