Decarbonationbiodiversity and boosting public land transport. This has become the growth niche for Paris airports of Orly and Roissy CDG under the leadership of the ADP Group/Aéroports de Paris. In fact, the terminals as we know them today will not change fundamentally. The only changes planned are some extensionswhich will provide a high level of comfort for users. On the other hand, the ADP group is working on increasing the density of public transport at CDG, Orly and Le Bourget.
Accompanying growth rather than anticipating it at CDG
A Roissy-CDG, ADP wants to keep pace with the growth in traffic over the coming decades, however slight it may be. In fact, the Group estimates that growth in passenger traffic has been halved since Covid and should remain at levels between 1% and 1.5 % increase per year.
This moderation is due to the airline industry's decarbonisation programme, which should result in fare increases for passengers. The foreseeable transfer to rail of domestic and intra-European air routes will also moderate growth..
- Modest growth
ADP estimates that by 2035, Roissy-CDG to handle 88 million passengers. This represents a leap of 16% compared with 2019. Prior to Covid, the ADP group was forecasting more than 100 million passengers.
In 2050, ADP is now talking about 105 million passengersThis represents an increase of 38% compared with 2019. This compares with a pre-Covid estimate of 168 million passengers. Growth is likely to be somewhere between these two estimates.
To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, ADP will also be adjusting capacity in the terminals.In particular, by better integrating them into one another. The aim is to improve passenger comfort with easier transfers from one terminal to another and air/rail connections.
One of the first "major projects" will be the creation of a new boarding lounge to the east of Terminal 2E to provide contact access for six wide-body aircraft. This will eliminate the need for bus journeys, which are incompatible with environmental objectives. This boarding lounge should welcome its first passengers in 2030. To facilitate connections, ADP plans to extend the automatic metro line to terminal 2G and this new boarding hall. Another new departure lounge will also be created to the west of Terminal 2A. with the possibility of bringing 5 aircraft into contact.
The main international border crossings will be overhauled by means of better-sized buildings to improve the quality of service.
Terminal 1, a new border crossing areaThe construction of a new underground rail link between the historic terminal and the international departure lounge is currently being studied. At Terminal 2E, the arrivals border crossing will be transferred to a new building offering a better experience. ADP will also invest in new baggage handling facilities.
- Boarding rooms (jetties) in the North
Beyond 2035, CDG could be equipped with three new satellites in the form of a pier. They will be located between the north of Terminal 2B and the east of Terminal 1. They will offer total capacity of 24 million additional passengers. This gives the airport a total capacity of 112 million passengers.
The first boarding lounge in the north should open around 2035. ADP is also considering the creation of a second automatic metro dedicated to connections in the international zone. It should link all the terminals, from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2G.
A train/plane junction building will be created between the CDG2 station and Terminal 2E.. It will make it easier for passengers to get from the station to the terminal. It will be accompanied by the creation of a a genuine multimodal stationable to accommodate 45 million passengers by 2050 compared with the current 15 million. The station will bring together the CDGVal, the RER B, the future Airport Express, line 17 of the metro and the TGV high-speed trains at a single point..
Finally, in terms of biodiversity and transforming the platform into a low-carbon structure, ADP will develop renewable energy production and distribution capacity (geothermal, photovoltaic). The airport authority will also be stepping up its supply of low-carbon biofuels and hydrogen. The group will be "renaturating" artificial areas and plans to preservation of at least 25% of biodiversity on airport surfaces.
Consultation with the public in 800 municipalities around CDG began on 8 April and is due to end on 8 July.
Orly: strengthening the role of the multimodal station
A OrlyPassenger flows are already heading towards the multimodal transport station.. It will strengthen its position as a passenger distribution centre between terminals and public transport.
The station connects the new metro line 14the future metro line 18 and a bus station of national importance. In the longer term, ADP is working on an exclusive right-of-way light rail system. It would link all the terminals to one future TGV station at Pont de Rungis.
The future rail structure, currently being planned, aims to develop TGV services to the south of Paris to reduce saturation at Paris-Montparnasse station. It would eventually play the same role as the CDG TGV station, by developing air-rail intermodality. This would further reduce the share of air travel in domestic journeys.
Terminal side, Orly should gain a new boarding pier in sector 2 to provide direct access to aircraft. The new structure will make it possible to have 90% contact aircraft by 2035 without, however, creating additional aircraft parking positions.
Le Bourget revitalises around its future metro station
Paris-Le Bourget business airport now awaits the future opening of metro station 17Le Bourget Airport.
The latter will the link between the aeronautical cluster at the historic Paris-Le Bourget airportThe station will also be close to the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, the Le Bourget exhibition centre and the residential areas of Le Blanc-Mesnil. The station will welcome nearly 25,000 passengers every day.
Last year saw the completion of the tunnels and foundations. Construction of the station's surface building has just begun. The Grand Paris Express company estimates that the line will enter service in 2027. Finally, it will make it possible to offer a direct rail link to the Villepinte Exhibition Centre and Roissy-CDG airport.
(To be continued: the interview with Anthony Martin, Executive Chairman of Paris-Beauvais airport)
