While many rankings assess the quality of airports, the Ector ranking looks at their accessibility. The valet service is based on four criteria to classify 50 largest international airports in terms of passenger traffic: the distance of the airport from the city centre, the availability and price of transport, car park capacity and the quality of valet parking. According to the rankings published on 22 October, the airport at Phoenix Sky Harbor in the United States came first in the rankings with a score of 9.2/10. The airports of Benito Juarez in Mexico and Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta complete the podium. At the back of the pack are two top business destinations: London Gatwick on page 46e place, while the two Tokyo airports - in this case Haneda and Narita - ranked 47e and 50e.
19th place for Paris-CDG
Madrid Barajas (5e), Istanbul Atatürk (6e) and Barcelona El Prat (7e) are responsible for representing Europe in a Top 10 dominated by North America and India. It remains to be seen what effect the transfer of activity within the new stamboulian airportexpected in the coming weeks...
In France, the Roissy-CDG is the only French ambassador in this list. The Paris hub barely made it into the top 20 (19e place), mainly because of its distance from the city centre and the high cost of transport to get there. However, Ector has not forgotten its domestic market, as it is a made in France company. ranking of the ten largest french airports. Nantes Atlantique dominates the national podium, ahead of Toulouse Blagnac and Paris Orly.
In France, travellers cover an average of 21 kilometres to get to an airport from the city centre and the price of a car park for a week is on average 145 euros. Yet, according to the study carried out by Harris Interative for Ector in September 2017, 43 % of travellers prefer to get to the airport by private vehicle and only 25 % use public transport.
