With 1.269. 864 passengers handled in 2020, Pointe à Pitre-Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes airport lost 50% of its traffic and returned to the activity levels of 1988.
The year 2020 had started with stable traffic in January and February (-1,7%) with very promising prospects (arrival of the airlines JetBlue and Air Belgium, good tourism dynamics ...) which made it possible to consider exceeding the threshold of 2,5 million passengers in 2020, recalled the Guadeloupe airport in a press release. But the Covid-19 pandemic, the effects of which reached Europe and the Americas from mid-March 2020, brought "a violent halt to these projections, affecting the various networks, to varying degrees" .
Traffic to the Metropolis down 46%
Towards the metropolis, traffic in Pointe-à-Pitre is down by nearly 46% in 2020 with 813.600 passengers against 1,502 million the previous year. “As a result of the health crisis, airlines have, throughout 2020, had to adapt their programs, often downwards, to the health provisions in force, with the result of a seat supply down by nearly 35%. compared to 2019 ”, underlines the airport. A "significant" decrease in the offer for the three companies Air Caraïbes, Air France and Corsair which operate the link with Paris.
The number of flights fell by a third, from nearly 4100 to just under 2. Finally, Level's stoppage of activity accounts for this decrease, for nearly 700 seats (100.000 flights), ie nearly a quarter of the observed drop in capacity.
At the same time, the load factors are also "significantly below the values observed in 2019", with a decrease of 16 percentage points to 72% against 88% last year. This decrease alone generates a drop of just over 170 passengers, or about a third of the drop in traffic recorded to the Metropolis.
The last fortnight of December saw passenger traffic on this route "return to a favorable trend", with the joint increase in demand and capacity offered by the incumbent operators, thus regaining nearly 82% of the level of traffic recorded on the same period in 2019.
The regional network at 60% of its 2019 level
Traffic to the Northern Islands (Saint-Martin Grand-Case and Saint-Barthélemy) is down by 40%, with just over 116.000 passengers against around 192.000 last year. While traffic to Saint-Barthélemy, a destination subject to fewer restrictions, “remained at around 90% of its 2019 level, even recording an increase in supply in the second half of the year due to redeployments of the fleet. Compagnie Air Antilles ”, traffic to Saint-Martin Grand-Case suffered a significant drop of more than 46%, following the coming into force once again of the compelling reasons for travel at the end of the summer period.
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