In accordance with the aviation business’s annual report, site visitors at French airports has not but returned to ranges earlier than the disaster. In 2023, there have been 198,680,952 business passengers, which is barely decrease by 7.3% than the numbers in 2019. Nonetheless, in comparison with 2022, there was a rise in site visitors by 14.2%, which is nearly 25 million further business passengers.
The report highlights some strong tendencies for 2023. The primary pattern is the growing penetration of low-cost airways within the French market. The second pattern is a decline in home site visitors; the outcomes fluctuate relying on the platforms.
The numerous progress of regional airports and air connectivity in latest occasions owes a lot to the event of low-cost airways. This pattern has been additional emphasised for the reason that disaster, as Thomas Juin, President of the Union of French Airports (UAF), famous. The growth of low-cost airways has performed an important position in making air journey extra accessible and reasonably priced to broader inhabitants segments. The UAF acknowledges that this growth has helped enhance regional connectivity, selling financial progress and tourism. The UAF stays dedicated to working with low-cost airways to make sure that they proceed working safely and effectively whereas assembly the wants of passengers and communities.
Low-cost to Save Site visitors at French Airports
In accordance with the UAF, in France, 43.2% of passengers who arrived at or departed from mainland airports flew with a low-cost airline in 2023, a rise from 35.1% in 2019. Final 12 months, low-cost airways transported 113.8% of their 2019 passenger quantity, whereas conventional corporations solely transported 80.8%.
Ryanair, easyJet, Wizz Air, Vueling, Volotea, Transavia, Eurowings, and different low-cost airways primarily provide quick and medium-haul flights, concentrating on leisure prospects or diasporas. In accordance with Thomas Juin, these corporations have seen their mannequin set up itself in France and Europe, and French regional airports have considerably benefited from their presence.
Site visitors at French airports specializing in low-cost reception has soared, with Beauvais (Oise), a Ryanair base, experiencing 41.6% progress (in comparison with 2019) and Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrénées experiencing 26.5% progress. Over 61.4% of passengers at giant regional airports, which welcome over 1,000,000 vacationers yearly, used these carriers.
Some Airports Rejoice, Some Don’t
Giant regional airports account for over a 3rd of metropolitan site visitors and have proven various outcomes relying on their publicity to home and low-cost site visitors. Paris-Beauvais airport handed the 5 million passenger mark for the primary time this 12 months. Nonetheless, some airports, akin to Breton airports (Brest and Rennes), Strasbourg, and Toulouse-Blagnac, have skilled a decline in site visitors over the previous 4 years resulting from competitors from rail and a shift away from enterprise journey.
Whereas worldwide site visitors has elevated by 20.2% in comparison with 2022, it’s nonetheless beneath 2019 (-2.8%). Then again, home site visitors decreased in comparison with 2022 (-1.7%) and remained 20.8% decrease than in 2019. Greater than half of the metropolitan airports’ site visitors (53.6%) is represented by Parisian platforms, as in 2019. As a result of disrupted long-haul markets, notably in Asia, Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport’s site visitors remains to be down 11.5% in comparison with 2019. Nonetheless, Paris-Orly, focusing extra on short-haul and medium-haul flights, exceeded its 2019 site visitors by 1.4%.
