{"id":129482,"date":"2022-08-19T00:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=129482"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:13:50","slug":"french-airlines-1st-half-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/french-airlines-1st-half-2022","title":{"rendered":"French air transport confirms recovery in the first half of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real improvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/capacites-aeriennes-europe-20220816.html\/\">French air transport<\/a> since the beginning of the year, although June saw a slight fall in traffic. According to DGAC statistics, <strong>French air transport recorded 61.71 million passengers in the first half of the year<\/strong>. <strong>This figure corresponds to 72.2% of traffic for the same period in 2019.<\/strong>. In June, passenger numbers reached the 2019 level of 82.5%. However, this was down on May, which stood at 86.1%.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Overseas traffic almost at 2019 levels<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>However, the underlying trend remains positive<\/strong>. In the first quarter, the level of traffic represented \"only\" 61% of the traffic for the first quarter of 2019. If we look at the evolution of traffic by bundle, <strong>spectacular recovery on domestic routes<\/strong>. The total number of domestic passengers reached 13.16 million, equivalent to 79.1% for the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This traffic is strongly influenced by the very good results on routes between mainland France and the overseas territories and regions. This segment is now only 9 points below the first half of 2019. On the mainland-La R\u00e9union route, traffic over the first six months is even 3% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On domestic routes in mainland France, Paris-Nice was only 12 points below its cumulative passenger traffic for 2019 in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/business-travel-that-is-sometimes-competitive\">Read also: A return to business travel sometimes \"problematic\" according to Concur<\/a><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">International business driven by Southern Europe and Turkey<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The number of passengers on the international segment from mainland France reached 48.06 million in the first half of the year.<\/strong>. It is equivalent to <strong>71.2% from 2019 level<\/strong>. On the<strong>European Union<\/strong> however, the catch-up is higher, at<strong> 78,3%<\/strong> <strong>of the 2019 level<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129487\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-129487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs-300x225-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs-768x576-derived.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs-80x60-derived.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/orly-departs-265x198-derived.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low-cost traffic buoyed business at Orly (Photo: LC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking at trends by country, only one route is currently seeing higher traffic than in 2019. <strong>This brought the total number of passengers to 1.37 million, including Turkey.<\/strong>1.1% higher than in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Among the countries doing better than average internationally are<strong>Spain<\/strong> <strong>where traffic is 87.4% higher than in 2019,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong> <strong>Tunisia at 85.4%, Italy at 77.9% and Canada at 74.5%<\/strong>. Outside Asia, the most disappointing results were for France-United Arab Emirates (63%), France-Brazil (60.8%), France-United Kingdom (58.5%) and France-Germany (57.9%).<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/french-airlines-1st-half-2022\">Read also: French air transport confirms recovery in the first half of 2022<\/a><\/div>\n<p>No surprise there, <strong>the France-Asia route shows the worst traffic performance<\/strong>. In the first six months of 2022, 2.72 million passengers travelled on these routes, i.e.<strong> 42.7% of 2019 level<\/strong>. And this figure also includes traffic to the Gulf region! In detail, the number of passengers on <strong>Japan reached 20.5%<\/strong> to its 2019 level and the <strong>China<\/strong> is even worse, at just<strong> 3,9%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Beauvais soars, but Roissy and Lyon struggle<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Finally, on the airport front, Beauvais has seen the most spectacular turnaround. At the end of June, <strong>the low-cost platform recorded a 6.3% increase in passenger numbers<\/strong> compared with 2019. <strong>Marseille came second with 86.7%<\/strong> of its 2019 level. It is followed by <strong>Nice 79.5% <\/strong>and <strong>Paris-Orly with 78.9%<\/strong>. In July, the Paris airport finally exceeded its 2019 figures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roissy CDG and Lyon, on the other hand, are lagging behind<\/strong>. At the end of June, their combined passenger traffic amounted to only<strong> 68,3% <\/strong>and<strong> 67,3%<\/strong> figures for the first half of 2019. Lyon came last in the top 10 French airports.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #a71f31;\">Could soaring prices now be putting the brakes on demand?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There is, however, some very bad news:<strong> soaring ticket prices<\/strong>This is mainly due to soaring energy prices. But it is also due to inflation and wage increases in a sector under pressure following the departure of many employees. According to the Civil Aviation Authority's air transport price index, <strong>air fares from France rose by an average of 43.5 % in July<\/strong>compared with July 2021. Prices have also jumped by more than a third compared with July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, it is the<strong>he biggest increases on intra-European routes<\/strong>to more than 50%. <strong>Since January 2022, the increase has been 19.3%<\/strong>. With no prospect of moderation over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(Updated on 23\/08\/2022)<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to DGAC statistics, French transport in the first half of 2022 recorded 61.71 million passengers, or 72.2% of the figures for the first half of 2019. At the end of 2021, traffic had only reached 39% of 2019 figures. 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