At the microphone of Europe 1, Augustin de Romanet, President and director of the Paris Airport group (ADP), talks about the closure of Orly airport, which will be effective this Tuesday evening, as well as the consequences of the confinement on the economy of air transport.

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From this Tuesday evening, the airport south of Paris will close its doors. Collateral damage from the containment measures taken to try to stem the Covid-19 pandemic, Orly has seen its flights drastically reduced for two weeks. If in normal times, 640 planes take off and land every day, there were only twenty of them yesterday, says Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO of the Paris Airport Group (ADP).

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Guest of Matthieu Belliard's morning show, Augustin de Romanet also returned to the economic consequences of the coronavirus on his group. "The activity is simply stopped. (...) We calculate the loss of turnover at more than a billion euros for the ADP group," he said at the microphone of Europe. 1.

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