Air passenger traffic in France 2023

The passenger traffic at French airports underwent a significant decline during 2020. The number of air passengers recorded in France dropped from 11.6 million in January 2020 to around 140,000 in April 2020. While passenger numbers began recovering in the following months and years, January figures have not exceeded those of 2020, since the start of the pandemic.

Number of passengers carried at French airports from January 2020 to December 2023

Characteristic	Passenger numbers
2023-12	12,015,958
2023-11	10,955,780
2023-10	14,492,577
2023-09	14,810,762
2023-08	16,631,726
2023-07	16,451,054
2023-06	14,800,398
2023-05	14,606,336
2023-04	13,252,849
2023-03	11,207,884
2023-02	10,203,560
2023-01	10,268,367
2022-12	11,382,029
2022-11	10,286,428
2022-10	13,130,776
2022-09	13,047,693
2022-08	15,204,350
2022-07	15,007,442
2022-06	13,187,026
2022-05	12,679,354
2022-04	11,131,522
2022-03	8,956,095
2022-02	6,893,358
2022-01	5,654,865
2021-12	7,652,387
2021-11	7,797,203
2021-10	8,499,148
2021-09	7,971,676
2021-08	9,965,622
2021-07	8,613,403
2021-06	4,634,796
2021-05	2,826,669
2021-04	1,761,799
2021-03	1,788,461
2021-02	1,708,526
2021-01	2,814,119
2020-12	2,895,755
2020-11	1,345,175
2020-10	3,456,138
2020-09	3,820,073
2020-08	5,746,232
2020-07	4,043,385
2020-06	896,617
2020-05	229,023
2020-04	141,251
2020-03	5,397,724
2020-02	11,125,495
2020-01	11,627,143

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

France

Survey time period

January 2020 to December 2023

Supplementary notes

The Air transport domain contains national and international intra and extra-EU data.

Passengers carried: all passengers on a particular flight (with one flight number) counted once only and not repeatedly on each individual stage of that flight. All revenue and non-revenue passengers whose journey begins or terminates at the reporting airport and transfer passengers joining or leaving the flight at the reporting airport. Excludes direct transit passengers.

Data coverage corresponds to Section PAS_CRD of AVIA_PAOC.

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