The Aéroports de Paris group hit hard by the economic crisis

Air France aircraft at Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on May 19, 2020 (illustration image). REUTERS / Charles Platiau

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The Aéroports de Paris group (ADP) is at its worst. This is, in essence, what its president, Augustin de Romanet, explains on Sunday June 21 in an interview with the Journal du dimanche. Activity at half mast, abolition of jobs ... The economic crisis did not spare the French firm.

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The observation made, this Sunday, June 21, by the president of the Aéroports de Paris group (ADP) is as synthetic as it is catastrophic . It fits in three sentences and three figures: traffic in Paris airports should be in 2020 "  60% lower than in 2019  ", explains Augustin de Romanet, who speaks of "  historic shock  " , in an interview with JDD . “  We are going to lose more than 50% of our turnover, which could be cut by around 2.5 billion euros. "

According to experts, world air traffic could return to its pre-coronavirus level between 2023 and 2025. This prospect, which gives food for thought on the lessons learned from the crisis, in any case encourages the boss of ADP to consider an "  adaptation of the industrial project  ”of the group, which will go through“  adjustments of the same nature as those of the airline companies  ”. In other words, we must expect staff reductions, to date unquantified.

A return to normal not before 2022-2023

Augustin de Romanet finally mentioned the reopening, Friday June 26, of Paris-Orly airport, closed since the end of March . Primarily, with internal flights to overseas territories or to a few European countries such as Portugal and Greece.

At the beginning of July, Orly should have 130 flights per day instead of 650 usually. The manager hopes that Orly will return to “  normal activity  ” in 2022-2023, while for Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle, which currently receives 20,000 passengers per day instead of the usual 230,000, “  it will be a little longer  ” , he warns.

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