Press release April 2012

Passenger traffic in 2012: 2.3 million passengers (+13.4%) for the first 4 months of 2012. The
month of April scored the highest monthly traffic increase for 5 years, with 736,841 passengers
(+19.1%)

Passenger traffic: 2011 was heavily impacted by the events of the Arab Spring, but 2012 has got off to a spectacular start with an increase in passenger traffic of 13.4% for the first 4 months of the year. 

After traffic increases of 6.7% and 9.5% for the months of January and February 2012 respectively, mp airport went on to achieve the strongest growth in traffic for a European airport in the month of March (in the category of airports with 5 to 10 million passengers): +15.8%. In April,
traffic rose by a record-breaking 19.1%. This was the biggest monthly increase in traffic in 5 years, since terminal mp2 opened and transformed mp airport.

In the month of April, traffic growth was boosted as much by domestic flights (318,342 passengers, +16.4%) as by international flights (403,196 passengers, +21.7%).

The main drivers were the start-up of new Air France destinations and the return, in force, of Ryanair. Together, these two airlines now operate 62 routes out of mp airport compared to the 36 routes that they operated at the same time last year. Passenger traffic at mp airport should therefore exceed the 8-million-passenger mark for the first time in its history in 2012.

These new routes offer the inhabitants of Marseille and Provence an unprecedented range of
destinations on direct flights (138 direct routes). They also, for the first time in the history of the
Marseille-Provence region, open the doors to large numbers of tourists from hitherto untapped
markets: Russia, the Lebanon, Denmark, Turkey, etc.

On top of the major developments at Air France and Ryanair, further traffic has been generated by new services introduced by airlines such as Vueling (Barcelona), TwinJet (Pau) and Jet4you (Agadir and Marrakech), plus increased offerings from Air Transat (Montreal and Quebec) and Air Austral (Reunion).

Contact:
Loïc CHOVELON
Head of Promotion & Communication
Aéroport Marseille Provence – CCIMP, BP 7, 13727 Marignane Cedex, FRANCE
chovelon@mrs.aero
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