The Chairman and CEO of the Aéroports de Paris group was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Thursday August 8, 2024.
Published
Reading time: 26 min
Augustin de Romanet, CEO of the ADP group, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Thursday August 8, 2024. Flying taxis, airport management during the Olympic Games… He answered questions from Marie Bernardeau and Bérengère Bonte.
Flying taxis: “Human lives will be saved”
The project to fly electric flying taxis “will be postponed for a few weeks” with “the hope of flying” these machines “above the Seine before the reopening of Notre-Dame”announces Augustin de Romanet. It is a “real brake”recognizes the CEO of the ADP group.
The promoters of electric flying taxis have in fact given up on testing them during the Games, due to a lack of certification of the engines.
Criticized for their environmental impact, these taxis are nevertheless “an innovation that is set to grow, as it is carbon-free, silent and extremely flexible” he assures. Taking the example of festivals, Augustin de Romanet compares them to ambulances, which can “have difficulty moving among the party-goers.” He adds that a “volocopter is a machine that only needs a flat platform of 24 meters in diameter, human lives will be saved.”
The “double kiss cool effect” of the Games
“Today we have at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Orly almost the same traffic as if there were no Olympic Games.“, says Augustin de Romanet. “You have more spectators and athletes, naturally, but on the other hand fewer people who come as tourists. We are exactly on the traffic forecasts that we had announced at the beginning of the year.”
But he expects “a double kiss cool effect” with these Games. The phenomenon has been visible “in cities like Athens, London… And given the extraordinary side of these Olympic Games in Paris, the number of tourists who should come in 2025 will be greatly increased” he concludes.
Find the entire “8h30 franceinfo” from Thursday August 8, 2024: