FRANCE. Aéroports de Paris (AdP) posted a -0.5% year-on-year decrease in passenger traffic for July, but said international traffic remained “dynamic”.
Paris airports handled 8.5 million passengers in the month with some 6 million using Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (+0.8%) and 2.5 million moving through Paris-Orly Airport (-3.3%).
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Total traffic for the year-to-date has shown solid growth over a strong 2007 |
AdP said that the slowdown in traffic stemmed primarily from the domestic market (-3.7%) and Europe (-1.4%). It noted: “These traffic segments were penalised by the economic context observed in Europe and by the strong rail competition on the domestic market.”
Traffic on Schengen routes fell by -1.6%. The British and Irish markets recorded a decrease of -4%.
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Note the strong long-haul result – important for duty free in particular |
Conversely, traffic on other international routes (except French Overseas Territories and Departments) remained dynamic, AdP said, with a +3.2% year-on-year increase. The North and Latin American markets rose by +7%.
The African market decreased by -0.2% while a +2.4% increase was recorded on routes to and from Asia and the Middle East.
“This growth in international traffic constitutes a very high performance taking into account a significant comparison basis (+8.1% increase in July 2007) on these destinations,” noted AdP.
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