The situation remains difficult for the air traffic from Paris. This is what the ADP Group in its latest traffic analysis. In October, the two Paris hubs ofOrly and Roissy-CDG welcomed 2.3 million passengers. This represents a drop in traffic of 75.6 % compared with October 2019.
In detail, the fall was as follows 81.7% at CDG with 1.22 million passengers. Orly held up a little better: passenger traffic stood at 1.04 million, a fall of 60,3% compared with the same month last year.
At the end of October, Paris airports handled 30 million passengers
At the end of October, combined traffic at the two airports reached 30 million passengers, down 67.3% compared with the ten months of 2019. Roissy saw 20.5 million passengers (-68.3%) and Orly 9.6 million passengers (-64.8%).
By geographical cluster, unsurprisingly North America and Asia posted the worst performances. Their traffic has fallen by 78.4% and 77.4% respectively since January. European traffic is down 69.5%, while domestic traffic is down 55.4%. Only the DROM-COM (ex DOM-TOM) fared slightly better at -44.3%.
The ADP group is drawing the necessary conclusions: at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, only terminals 2E, 2F and 2AC continue to handle all commercial passenger traffic. At Paris-Orly, the airport operator now only operatesOrly 3. Orly 1 has been closed on 11 November, while operations at Orly 4 were suspended on 18 November.
For 2021, the operator estimates that traffic should fluctuate within a range representing 45% to 55% figures for 2019. Growth is likely to resume from April 2021, followed by an upturn in the summer.
