Less than 1% ! This is thehe share of passenger numbers at Orly and Roissy airports to have waited more than 45 minutes to pass police border controls in these airports. A good result just revealed by the Direction de la Police aux Frontières in cooperation with the ADP Group. The two institutions have set up a tool for assessing waiting times for passengers.
Sensors in border crossing and security control areas can now count the number of passengers in a queue in real time. These include a real-time measurement tool that updates automatically every five seconds.
Throughout 2023, on almost 34 million passengers on international flights at CDG, 81.8 % waited less than 10 minutes. 15.3 % had to queue between 10 and 30 minutes, 2% between 30 and 45 minutes, and 0.8 % more than 45 minutes.
The result is even better at Orly. Out of almost 14 million passengers on international flights, 90.2 % waited less than 10 minutes. last year. 9.3% had to wait between 10 and 30 minutes, 0.3% between 30 and 45 minutes and less than 0.1 % 45 minutes or more.
More PARAFE automated airlocks
This good result can be attributed to good anticipation of needs at the two Paris hubs. The border police have reinforced the phe PARAFE automated airlock programme. The following are available to passengers 188 automatic passport reading machines at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly by summer 2024. This represents an increase of 55 % compared with 2023. More than 60 nationalities can use the PARAFE airlocks.
ADP has also reinforced its reception teams during peak full stops. During the summer season, 20% of people guided passengers through the queues. That's 1,300 staff at Paris-CDG (+20% compared with summer 2022) and 500 at Paris-Orly (i.e. +20%). The operation will be repeated in 2024 and even expanded with the arrival of the Olympic Games.
