The ADP group, which manages the Paris hubs, has revised its traffic forecasts for 2020 downwards. The second wave of the covid pandemic sweeping across Europe is expected to result in a fall in passenger traffic of between 65% and 70% over the whole of 2020. Previous forecasts were still betting on a "limited" fall to 63% over the full year.
According to the figures released by the Group, passenger traffic fell between January and September by 66.3 % compared with the same period in 2019. This translates into a total of 27.8 million passengers over the first nine months. Turnover has also been halved since the start of the year.
The best resilience for traffic to French overseas departments and territories
By detailing traffic trends over the first three quarters, intercontinental traffic was down 68.0%. North America recorded the sharpest fall, down 76.8 %, followed by Asia-Pacific, down 75.7 %. The Middle East fell by 68.0 %, Latin America by 66.3 % and Africa by 64.5 %.
Only the French overseas departments and territories limit the damage slightly with passenger traffic down 45.1 %.
In Europe excluding France, the fall was 68.4 1TP3Q while domestic traffic fell by 55.6 % between January and September.
The number of connecting passengers fell by 65.4 %. The correspondence rate stood at 23.4 1TP3Q, up 0.9 points on the first 9 months of 2019. The load factor fell by 14.6 points to 72.1 %. The number of aircraft movements (236,433) was down 56.8 1TP3Q.
According to Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO of Aéroports de Paris-Groupe ADP, traffic will not return to its 2019 level, at best by 2024, at worst by 2027... In other words, passenger traffic will be set back five to eight years.
