Passenger traffic

In December 2011, passenger traffic at Aéroports de Paris increased strongly by 9.2% compared to December 2010. Paris airports handled a total of 6.9 million passengers, including 4.7 million at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (+9.0%) and 2.2 million at Paris-Orly (+9.5%). Excluding the impact of the snow disruption in December 2010, traffic increased by 5.4%.  

  • International traffic (excluding Europe) increased by 5.1%. All destinations recorded an increase, except for the Middle East (-1.9%): the French Overseas Departments and Territories (+16.3%), Latin America (+8.1%), North America (+5.2%), Africa (+4.3%), Asia-Pacific (+2.4%). 

  • European traffic (excluding France) grew by 12.5%, driven by the Schengen area (+12.0%).Great Britain and Ireland were up by 16.8%.  

  • Traffic within France increased by 11.5%. 

  • The number of connecting passengers increased by 24.0%, resulting in a connecting rate of 25.8% against 22.7% in December 2010.  

2011, a record year in terms of passenger numbers

Aéroports de Paris saw record traffic with 88.1 million passengers served at Paris airports, up 5.7% YTD. Excluding the impact of exceptional events in 2010 (volcanic ash and snow disruption), traffic increased by 3.7%.

2011 is also a record year for Paris-Charles de Gaulle with 61.0 million passengers. The previous record was 2008 with 60.9 passengers served. With 27.1 million passengers, Paris-Orly airport achieved its second best performance since the record year of 1996 with 27.4 million passengers served.

The number of connecting passengers grew by 8.6%, resulting in a connecting rate of 23.7% against 23.2% for the year 2010.

In number of passengers December 2011 %

change*		 January to December 2011 % change*
Paris-CDG 4,715,613 +9.0% 60,970,551 +4.8%
Paris-Orly 2,141,186 +9.5% 27,139,076 +7.7%
ADP 6,856,799 +9.2% 88,109,627 +5.7%

* compared to the same period of the previous year

Traffic by markets

Markets Dec. 2011/

Dec. 2010		 % total traffic Jan-Dec. 2011/

Jan-Dec. 2010		 % total traffic
EUROPE        
France +11.5% 19.7% +7.2% 18.9%
Europe +12.5% 39.3% +8.4% 42.2%
Of which SCHENGEN +12.0% 30.5% +8.6% 32.8%
 

OTHER INTERNATIONAL

Of which		 +5.1% 41.0% +2.2% 38.8%
Africa +4.3% 12.0% -2.9% 11.2%
North America +5.2% 8.9% +5.9% 9.8%
Latin America +8.1% 4.0% +5.6% 3.2%
Middle East -1.9% 4.6% -6.5% 4.3%
Asia/Pacific +2.4% 6.7% +7.9% 6.4%
French Overseas Territories +16.3% 4.9% +7.6% 3.9%
TOTAL +9.2% 100.0% +5.7% 100.0%

All traffic data expressed in revenue passengers (including direct transit passengers).

Aircraft movements

The number of aircraft movements grew by 7.6% in December 2011 year on year (with +7.6% at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and +7.6% at Paris-Orly).

In December 2011, the passenger load factor stood at 76.0% compared to 74.3% in December 2010.

  December 2011 %

change*		 January to December 2011 % change*
Paris-CDG 39,928 +7.6% 506,888 +3.0%
Paris-Orly 17,900 +7.6% 228,534 +6.0%
ADP 57,828 +7.6% 735,422 +3.9%

* compared to the same period of the previous year

In  2011, the number of aircraft movements increased by 3.9% and the passenger load factor stood at 76.9% against 76.1% in 2010.

Financial Release December 2011 Traffic figures:
http://hugin.info/145257/R/1577940/492123.pdf


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