Paris airports have found 92,3% of their 2019 travelers

Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG) and Orly welcomed 99,7 million passengers in 2023, an increase of 15,1% over one year, underlined Groupe ADP in a press release.

50,6% owned by the French state, the company was targeting passenger traffic for 2023 between 87% and 93% of 2019 levels at CDG and Orly.

The latter, mainly dedicated to short and medium-haul, has exceeded its pre-health crisis activity, at 101,4% of traffic four years ago, while CDG, specialized in long-haul, is remained behind at 88,5%.

Explanation: passengers from or to Asia, even twice as numerous as in 2022, still represent only 68,8% of passenger volumes four years earlier.

Another weak point, French domestic traffic capped last year at 75,2% of pre-crisis attendance, a phenomenon already identified by sector officials and attributed to companies' use of videoconferencing and train travel. on certain routes.

On the other hand, airlines between Paris airports and Africa were full, at 108,3% of 2019 levels, a ratio reaching 100% for North America, 99% for Overseas and 95,5. XNUMX% for Europe.

The recovery rate of 92,3% marks a further improvement for Ile-de-France airports, after the disaster of 2020: the Covid-19 pandemic, border closures and other travel restrictions had torpedoed their attendance, to 30,6% of the previous year.

Kazakhstan record

After a barely better year in 2021 (38,8%), Orly and CDG had found 80,2% of their pre-crisis travelers in 2022, the start of which was again marked by an epidemic wave.

These facilities will not return to their pre-Covid attendance until at least this year, according to ADP, which is counting for 2024 on a range of 90 to 100% of pre-crisis, rising from 95% to 105% by 2025 .

With its facilities in Ile-de-France, the company manages directly or via partners nearly 30 airport platforms around the world, from Antalya (Turkey) to Santiago de Chile via Almaty (Kazakhstan) and New Delhi.

On this scope, the group also met the objectives announced to the market: 336,4 million passengers passed through its airports, or 98,7% of travelers in 2019. It expected between 95 and 105%.

Among the most dynamic airports in its portfolio are Almaty (148,6% of 2019 attendance), Skopje and Ohrid in North Macedonia (117,6%) and Hyderabad (India, 109,1%).

ADP is due to release its 2023 annual financial results on February 15.

Coming out of the red in 2022 after the plunge due to the health crisis which caused it to lose 1,4 billion euros cumulatively in 2020 and 2021, ADP generated a net profit (group share) of 211 million euros between January and June 2023, up 31,8% year-on-year.

The group was targeting for 2023 a gross operating surplus (Ebitda) at least equal to that of 2019, i.e. 1,772 billion euros, and an Ebitda margin of between 32% and 37%.