Nice Hits Ten Million Passenger Milestone

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport surpassed the ten million passenger milestone in early December only the third time the French facility has passed the milestone in its history. The airport handled 9.60 million passengers last year, the third consecutive year of traffic decline, having hit a record of 10.39 million in 2007.

In fact this year has been one of the most successful periods in the airport’s history with a number of operational and network records being broken. During the Northern Summer 2011 schedules the airport served its highest number of direct destinations (105) with its largest portfolio of airline partners (59). On Saturday July 30 it handled 43,762 passengers, a record for a single day and that month’s total of 1,218,501 passengers was also a monthly record.

Looking forward and despite the current economic environment, 2012 is set to be another positive year for Nice Côte d'Azur Airport as Air France and easyJet open new bases at the airport and major international flag carriers such as Lufthansa, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines introduce new connections to the south of France.