After Lyon-Saint ExupéryNice-Côte d'Azur airport also posted record results. Last year's results, 13.85 million passengers were welcomed here, marking an important traffic growth of 4.1 %. This is the eighth consecutive year that the Côte d'Azur hub has improved its performance. However, the Nice hub has scheduled fewer thefts than in 2017. The increase in the number of passengers, most of whom are European, is in fact due to fill rate 99 % during the summer period. In addition, flights from Nice-Côte d'Azur airport served 17 new destinations this summer and 12 this winter.
rethink the prevailing ultra-centralised model
Buoyed by these good results, the airport's managers now even intend to compete with Paris, or at least offer a viable alternative: " Our strategy is clearly to offer passengers a high-quality, competitive stopover, to as many destinations around the world as possibleexplains Dominique Thillaud. We are convinced that the increase in air traffic and the saturation of French skies justifies rethinking the predominant ultra-centralised model, as is already the case in all the major European countries. Not only does this make sense from an economic point of view, but it also environmental because it will reduce distances travelled and turnaround times "adds the Chairman of the Management Board of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur.
To keep pace with the increase in passenger numbers over the last few years, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport announced last June that it was planning to build aterminal extension 2. It will eventually have six additional aircraft stands to accommodate medium-haul and long-haul aircraft. Two gates will also be added to terminal 1. Available since mid-December, the Nice tramway service to the airport will make France's second-largest airport more accessible.
