Montpellier airport regained his health this summer. Traffic has not returned to its 2019 level, but the numbers are still good. More 30% compared to last summer. More than 400,000 passengers welcomed in July and August. Over the first 8 months of the year, we reached almost 1 million 200,000 passengers.
“To compare with the year 2019, which remains the reference year (and that of record traffic for us), we achieve no less than 92% of the number of passengers handled over the first 8 months” says Emmanuel Brehmer, Chairman of the Management Board of Montpellier Méditerranée Airport. “We are therefore slightly above our own forecasts, and above the average for French airports.”
It must be said that today, Montpellier airport is 36 destinations provided by 12 different companies And it is always the connections with Paris that are acclaimed, this represents almost half of the traffic, 44.6% to be precise. Since the connection with Orly has been provided by Transavia, a Low Cost subsidiary of Air France with very attractive prices, a new clientele is taking the plane to reach the capital. “As for business trips that require a round trip during the day, I persist in saying and repeating that the air solution is the only one that is really viable” adds the airport manager
On the other interior lines, Nantes, Lille, Brest and Caen are doing very well, on the other hand the connections to Corsica Bastia and Ajaccio lose passengers compared to last summer. In Europe, Basel in Switzerland is a big hit, with 4 times more holidaymakers than last summer, a big success also for amsterdam.
Scandinavia has filled up: Copenhagen, Stockholm but also the new link with Oslo. Greece, Athens, Heraklion, and Santorini doubled its number of passengers. On the southern shores of the Mediterranean, it is Fes Casablanca and Nador in Morocco which have been the most attractive.
The winter program at Montpellier airport will come into force on October 30 with 24 destinations, In France :
Brest, Caen, Lille, Nantes, Paris Orly, Paris Roissy, Rennes, Strasbourg
In Europe and North Africa:
Algiers, Oran, Madrid, Seville, Athens, Rome, Luxembourg, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Nador, Amsterdam, Lisbon, London Gatwick, Basel-Mulhouse, Tunis
Finally, it should be noted that Montpellier airport has been designated France’s favorite airporta survey of the Holidu holiday site in particular for its cleanliness, its organization and its warm atmosphere