Domestic traffic posted its strongest growth since the beginning of the year: +13.7% for 250,000 passengers. The services benefited from excellent seat-occupancy rates. Routes such as Bastia (+35.6%), Strasbourg (+32.7%), Marseille (+28%) or Lyon (+13.6%) contributed greatly to this performance. With Hop! Air France celebrating 20 years of the Bordeaux-Paris shuttle and announcing that it will continue after the opening of the high-speed rail service between the two cities, Orly posted its monthly growth record in November with a 13.7% rise in traffic.
International flights continued to show a clear growth trend with +7.1% for over 138,000 passengers. Ranking top for the fastest growing major destinations in November were the services to Spain: Palma (Volotea and Vueling) +69%, Madrid (Iberia and Iberia Express) +56.6% and Barcelona (easyJet and Vueling) + 48.5%. North African destinations such as Marrakesh and Algiers recorded very good results, +30.5% and +14.6% respectively; an encouraging trend coinciding with the launch of a new Air Arabia route to Fes. Intercontinental hubs are showing similar upturns: Madrid (Iberia and Iberia Express) +56.6%, Lisbon (TAP and easyJet) +21.6%, Paris Charles de Gaulle (Air France) +13.7%, Brussels (Brussels Airlines and easyJet) +9.4% and Amsterdam (KLM and easyJet) +1.7%.
Low cost activity continued to show very strong gains with a 15.1% rise in traffic for 140,000 passengers per month. The operator easyJet recorded the strongest growth in terms of volume with 96,600 passengers (+13.4% in traffic), thanks in particular to its flights to Bristol and Berlin, operating for the first time during the winter.
November also afforded an opportunity to announce the arrival of a new route for the summer 2017 schedule: Frankfurt with Lufthansa as from 2 April 2017.
08/12/2016