Hubs and low cost airlines benefit French air transport
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Growth rates posted by France's hub airports in 1998 contributed to the 6.7% gain in the country's 1998 passenger traffic to 116.8 million. In 1998, France's Montpellier airport recorded a growth rate of 8.6%, Basle- Mulhouse-Freiburg, 13.3%, Paris Charles de Gaulle, 9.4%, Nice, 9.7% and Clermont Ferrand, 22.3%. Meanwhile, smaller French airports, such as Beauvais, were benefited from the entry of low cost airlines into the French market.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 1999
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Mediterranean airports plan ahead
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Nice Airport projects that it will handle over nine million passengers in 2000, which would equal its maximum capacity. The important trend to have surfaced in the past five years is the growth of international traffic at a rate double the rate of domestic traffic. This major change has been attributed to the start of hub operations by Air Littoral in 1997 and the effect of the operations of low-cost carriers.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 2000
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Aeroport Montpellier Mediterranee
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Aeroport Montpellier Mediterrannee has maintained a 7% growth rate in the past five years. Passenger traffic amounted to 1.64 million in 1999. The airport intends to increase its share of the leisure traffic in the Mediterranean region. It projects annual passenger traffic to reach 3 million by 2015. The airport authority is considering other means to increase its traffic and has launched an expansion plan.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 2000
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