The strikes influenced air traffic trends in France in the first quarter. Admittedly, the latter remains positive, with travel demand extremely strong. Nevertheless, it has lost some of its vigour compared with the initial trajectory in the forecasts.
According to ADP GroupTraffic at the two Paris hubs, Roissy CDG and Orly, will increase by 44.6% between the 1st quarter of 2022 and 2023.. Both airports welcomed a total traffic of 21.04 million passengersor 88.7% of 2019 traffic.
Nevertheless, Aéroports de Paris points out that this traffic would have been in up 47.8 % excluding strikesrepresenting 90.7 % of 2019 traffic. As a result of the repeated strikes, the two Paris airports have lost some 470,000 passengers390,000 in March alone.
CDG handled 14.3 million passengers, or 86.9 % of 2019 traffic. Orly recorded 6.7 million passengers, or 92.8 % of 2019 traffic. In March alone, the capital's two hubs recorded increased by 24.3 %, to 7.4 million passengers. But this traffic would have been +30.9 %, adjusted for the effect of strikes.
Although the DGAC has not yet published its first-quarter traffic report on passenger numbers in France, it does note that a fall in air movements in March at Orly, Bordeaux and Toulouse airports.
These three airports were particularly hard hit by the social movements. The total number of movements fell by 4.26% at Orly, 4% at Bordeaux and even 5% at Toulouse.
