- The Prime Minister announced on Thursday the end of the travel limit to more than 100 km.
- Nice Airport will go from 4 to 20 destinations served on Monday.
With the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, traditionally, the month of May marks a boom in attendance at Nice airport. “During this period, a normal year, we have up to 45,000 passengers per day. There, with all the cancellations, we hardly reach 1,000 people a day, ”points out Isabelle Baumelle, director of operations and company development.
Placed in hibernation since the containment measures, with its very rare flights (to Paris CDG, Ajaccio, Bastia and London) concentrated on a single terminal, the third airport in France is preparing to restart ... smoothly, while the Prime Minister announced this Thursday the end of the travel limit to more than 100km.
To Europe but not beyond for the moment
"We will go back to 20 destinations from Monday," said the manager. Lyon (Air France), Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes (easyJet and Volotea), Figari, Calvi (Air Corsica) but also Frankfurt (Lufthansa), Brussels (Brussels Airlines), Geneva, Zurich (easyJet, Swiss), Vienna, Sofia, Budapest and Krakow (Wizz Air) will again be served. A little openness towards Europe, even if Edouard Philippe announced this Thursday that the internal borders would not be reopened until June 15 "without fortnight and if the situation allows", but not yet to the rest of the world.
Within Europe, the epidemic is slowing down: France will be in favor of reopening the internal borders of Europe from June 15 if the health situation allows, without fortnight for travelers from European countries . # deconfinement
- Edouard Philippe (@EPhilippePM) May 28, 2020“We already know that Air Canada will not be there all summer. Like Air China, United Airlines and Delta Airlines to China and the United States. On the rest, we have visibility over a fortnight or three weeks maximum. The companies follow very closely and adapt to government announcements in each country. And what will also be decisive in the scaling up is demand. "
85% of partially unemployed employees
Pending an expected acceleration for July, the Nice airport will recall "only a small part of its staff", placed so far at 85% in partial unemployment. And review your goals. "With April, among other things, less than 2% of regular flights, we expect annual attendance to drop by 50%," says Isabelle Baumelle. The platform, which had beaten its passenger record in recent years, expected 15 million passengers in 2020 before the crisis.
And in the longer term? No certainty on the Nice tarmac but, according to specialists, the air sector should not regain its cruising speed for three years. The companies are all impacted. Easyjet, which has one of its French bases in Nice, announced on Thursday that a third of its workforce worldwide will be cut.
The Riviera platform has in any case put the package to reassure passengers while the epidemic of new coronavirus. On May 7, it launched an unprecedented measure for an airport using a UV disinfector robot usually used in hospitals. Automatic hydroalcoholic gel dispensing terminals, “air and surface purifiers” in the sanitary facilities have also been installed. The filters in the ventilation network also benefited from an increase in power. They are the same as "those used in hospitals," says the airport.
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