"Could do better" would certainly be what we think when we see the half-year results for Paris airportspublished by Aéroports de Paris. Admittedly, passenger traffic continues to increase. Over the first six months of 2025, this figure stood at 51,347,180 passengers, an increase of 4.5%.. Growth mainly driven by Orly airport. Passenger numbers rose by 5% to 16.75 million.
On the other hand, things are a little slower at CDG. The Air France hub posted an increase of 4.3% to 34.6 million passengers. More worrying is the fact that Roissy is still lagging behind 2019, the last year before Covid. Traffic in the first half of 2025 is still 4.8% below the same period in 2019. Orly, on the other hand, has exactly the same figure... but in positive territory!
Another area of concern: growth slows in June. With 9.69 million passengers at the two airports, growth was 4.1%. However, CDG stalled with growth of 2.6%. This represents 6.43 million passengers, 7 points down on June 2019.
This mediocre growth is mainly due to geopolitical turbulence in the Middle East, which weighed on intercontinental traffic. In June, traffic to the Middle East fell by 3.5%. At the same time, the slowdown towards North America continues. Passenger numbers in June did rise by 1.9%, but this was the smallest increase of all the intercontinental markets.
On the other hand, national traffic rose unexpectedly by 2.8% in June, returning to 72.7% of the 2019 level. Over the first half of the year, domestic traffic nevertheless fell by 1.4%. Its level is now more than 30% below the pre-Covid period.
