With the coronavirus crisis, the Paris airports of Roissy and Orly are suffering a sharp drop in attendance.

Augustin de Romanet, CEO of ADP, estimated on Europe 1 that a total reopening of the terminals would not take place before 2023.

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The return to normal in the airline industry will take several years.

This is the message passed by Augustin de Romanet, the CEO of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), on Monday in the program

La France Bouge

sur Europe 1. The manager even believes that the Parisian terminals will not reopen in full until the horizon 2023, due to the coronavirus crisis.

"Throughout the year 2021, we may be led to close certain terminals. I hope that in 2023 all of them will be open," he said on our antenna.

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In October, the total traffic of ADP, which directly or indirectly manages more than twenty airports in the world, was down 56.8% compared to October 2019, with 9.1 million passengers welcomed (-61.3% since the start of the year).

"It will take 4 to 6 years to return to the level of traffic in 2019"

ADP will still take advantage of the coronavirus crisis to carry out work to bring several terminals into compliance, in particular at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.

"Some terminals will have to be closed for technical reasons, in order to be able to put in place new, more sophisticated baggage detection systems required by the European Commission. For example, in 2023 we will probably have to close Terminal 2AC and concentrate everything on Terminal 1. We postponed this work (due to the coronavirus) ", detailed Augustin de Romanet.

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More broadly, the boss of ADP does not expect a return to normal for at least 4 years.

"The Covid episode will create a sort of notch for air transport of 4 to 6 years. It will take 4 to 6 years to return to the level of traffic in 2019", he concluded.