FRANCE. Aéroports de Paris (AdP) has reported a +3.3% increase in passenger traffic for May 2010 compared to the previous year.
Traffic at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport rose by +3.5% to 5.2 million and at Paris Orly volumes grew by +3.0% to 2.3 million.
International traffic (excluding Europe) grew by +5.3%. Except Latin America (-1.7%), all market sectors recorded growth: Africa: +5.7%, North America: +5.5%, Middle East: +13.8%, Asia Pacific: +4.4%, and French overseas territories: +0.3%.
European traffic (excluding France) grew by +2.3%. Traffic within the Schengen area increased by +2.8%. The Great Britain and Ireland market dropped by -8.5%, affected by British Airways strikes and the impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud at the beginning of the month.
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Traffic within metropolitan France rose by +1.9%.
The number of connecting passengers decreased by -4.3%, resulting in a connection rate of 22.1% (against 23.5% in May 2009).
For the first five months of the year, passenger traffic decreased by -3.1% compared to the same period of 2009. The number of connecting passengers declined by -6.6% resulting in a connecting rate of 23.8% (against 24.6% for the first five months of 2009).
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