Orly is the one that has suffered the most in these first months of 2023. The major airports serving Paris have suffered from strikes by air traffic controllers against the pension reform, which caused them to lose around 470,000 passengers in the first quarter, their manager said on Monday. , ADP. During the strike movement, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked airlines to give up some 20% of their flights on certain days at Orly, but also at other airports in the region, to bring the number of controllers at their posts and the expected air traffic.
In March alone, in the midst of contesting the reform wanted by President Emmanuel Macron, and passed thanks to the use of 49.3, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly suffered a loss of traffic of 390,000 passengers, or 5.3 % of the 7.4 million travelers actually received, the group said in its monthly traffic press release.
Orly suffered more than Roissy
Passengers who passed through the two major Ile-de-France airports in March represent 85.4% of their traffic in 2019, before the Covid-19 which torpedoed the global air sector. This is a stall in the generally upward trend observed since: the ratio was 89.3% in January and 92% in February. For its Ile-de-France airports, ADP has set its objectives for the year between 87% and 93% of passenger volumes for 2019.
It is logically Orly which suffered the most from the social movement, achieving in March only 86.4% of its passenger traffic in 2019, against 100.7% in February. Roissy also fell, but less markedly, to 84.9% of the figures from four years ago against 88.2% in February.
ADP largely profitable in 2022
Weighed down by this poor performance, ADP, which manages a total of 29 airports in the world, directly or via subsidiaries or partners, from Almaty to Santiago de Chile via Antalya (Turkey) and Delhi (India), also marked the pace on this scope, to 95.6% of passengers in March 2019 compared to 96.7% in February.
After two years of losses due to the pandemic, the group, in which the French state is a 50.6% shareholder, is largely back in the green in 2022, with 516 million euros in net profit. It did not mention on Monday a possible update to its annual traffic goals. When publishing its financial results in February, it estimated that it could regain or even exceed this year the number of passengers received before the crisis on all of its platforms around the world.