Aéroports de Paris: Record traffic in 2011 - Airport HR Expert Platform

Passenger traffic
In December 2011, passenger traffic at Aéroports de Paris increased strongly by 9.2% compared to December 2010. Paris airports handled a total of 6.9 million passengers, including 4.7 million at Paris-
Charles de Gaulle (+9.0%) and 2.2 million at Paris-Orly (+9.5%). Excluding the impact of the snow
disruption in December 2010, traffic increased by 5.4%.

International traffic (excluding Europe) increased by 5.1%. All destinations recorded an
increase, except for the Middle East (-1.9%): the French Overseas Departments and Territories
(+16.3%), Latin America (+8.1%), North America (+5.2%), Africa (+4.3%), Asia-Pacific (+2.4%).

European traffic (excluding France) grew by 12.5%, driven by the Schengen area (+12.0%).
Great Britain and Ireland were up by 16.8%.
Traffic within France increased by 11.5%.
The number of connecting passengers increased by 24.0%, resulting in a connecting rate of
25.8% against 22.7% in December 2010.
2011, a record year in terms of passenger numbers
Aéroports de Paris saw record traffic with 88.1 million passengers served at Paris airports, up 5.7%
YTD. Excluding the impact of exceptional events in 2010 (volcanic ash and snow disruption), traffic
increased by 3.7%.

2011 is also a record year for Paris-Charles de Gaulle with 61.0 million passengers. The previous
record was 2008 with 60.9 passengers served. With 27.1 million passengers, Paris-Orly airport
achieved its second best performance since the record year of 1996 with 27.4 million passengers
served.