Busiest airports in France by total passenger traffic

List of Airports in 2010

Rank Airport Town/City Code IATA Total
passengers 2010
Annual Growth Change 10/09
1 Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris CDG 58,164,612 0,4%
2 Paris Orly Airport Paris ORY 25,203,969 0,4%
3 Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice NCE 9,603,014 2.3%
4 Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport Lyon LYS 7,979,228 3.4%
5 Marseille Provence Airport Marseille MRS 7,524,886 3.2%
6 Toulouse Blagnac Airport Toulouse TLS 6,405,906 2.0%
7 Basel-Mulhouse International Airport Mulhouse BSL, MLH or EAP 4,129,186 7.1%
8 Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport Bordeaux BOD 3,663,702 10.5%
9 Nantes Atlantique Airport Nantes NTE 3,031,556 14.3%
10 Beauvais-Tillé Airport Beauvais BVA 2,931,796 13.1%
11 Roland Garros Airport La Réunion RUN 1,970,575 12.6% 2
12 Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport Pointe-à-Pitre PTP 1,948,813 5,9% 1
13 Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport Fort-de-France FDF 1,680,647 2.4% 1
14 Faa'a International Airport Faaa PPT 1,183,273 4.0%
15 Montpellier Airport Montpellier MPL 1,180,448 3.6% 1
16 Lille - Lesquin Airport Lille LIL 1,170,693 1.9% 3
17 Ajaccio - Campo dell'Oro Airport Ajaccio AJA 1,114,573 2.2%
18 Strasbourg Airport Strasbourg SXB 1,060,705 4.3% 3
19 Bastia Poretta Airport Bastia BIA 1,007,408 0.4% 1
20 Biarritz Airport Biarritz BIQ 989,622 2.1% 2

Source: http://www.aeroport.fr/fichiers/stats_2010.pdf

List of Airports from 2007 and 2008

Rank Airport Town/City Code IATA Total
passengers 2008
Total
passengers 2007
Rank
2007
Change 08/07
1 Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris CDG 60,874,681 59,922,177 1 +1,6%
2 Paris Orly Airport Paris ORY 26,209,703 26,440,736 2 -0,9%
3 Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Nice NCE 10,382,566 10,399,513 3 -0.2%
4 Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport Lyon LYS 7,924,063 7,320,952 4 +8.2%
5 Marseille Provence Airport Marseille MRS 6,965,933 6,962,773 5 +0.03%
6 Toulouse Blagnac Airport Toulouse TLS 6,349,805 6,162,288 6 +3%
7 Basel-Mulhouse International Airport Mulhouse BSL, MLH or EAP 4,257,169 4,269,124 7 -0.25%
8 Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport Bordeaux BOD 3,519,000 3,463,205 8 +2.8%
9 Nantes Atlantique Airport Nantes NTE 2,731,563 2,589,890 9 +5.47%
10 Beauvais-Tillé Airport Beauvais BVA 2,484,635 2,155,633 10 +15.3%
11 Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport Pointe-à-Pitre PTP 2,020,042 1,960,912 11 +3%
12 Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport Fort-de-France FDF 1,673,610 1,695,741 13 -1.3%
13 Roland Garros Airport La Réunion RUN 1,654,105 1,594,805 14 +3.7%
14 Faa'a International Airport Faaa PPT 1,379,832 1,511,340 15 -8.7%
15 Strasbourg Airport Strasbourg SXB 1,329,000 1,733,050 12 -23.3%
16 Montpellier Airport Montpellier MPL 1,256,391 1,286,875 16 -2.4%
17 Ajaccio - Campo dell'Oro Airport Ajaccio AJA 1,072,768 1,025,119 18 +4.6%
18 Biarritz Airport Biarritz BIQ 1,028,006 930,880 19 +10.4%
19 Lille - Lesquin Airport Lille LIL 1,014,704 1,051,758 17 -3.5%
20 Bastia Poretta Airport Bastia BIA 933,695 860,046 20 +8.6%
21 Brest Bretagne Airport Brest BES 874,747 850,433 21 +2.9%
22 Pau Pyrénées Airport Pau PUF 817,511 763,018 22 +7.1%
23 Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport Tarbes-Lourdes LDE 678,897 444,258 26 +52.8%
24 Toulon-Hyères Airport Toulon TLN 629,412 646,053 23 -2.6%
25 Grenoble Airport Grenoble GNB 474,083 469,658 25 +0.94%

Source : http://www.aeroport.fr/fichiers/stats_2007.pdf

See also