A FIRST ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (ACPD)
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Laurence Bottéga, Océane Moings and Pauline Givernaud are heavily involved in the issues of accessibility and assistance within the Operations Division, and are members of the ACPD. Credit: Sébastien Aubry for Groupe ADP.
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Improving the reception and inclusion of people with disabilities within our terminals is now more than ever a strategic priority for Groupe ADP, in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Games, which will act as an accelerator for change. It is with this in mind that a new body has been created; the Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities (ACPD). The first committee meeting was held on 10 October at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and was attended by ten dedicated members of civil society and disability experts, as well as several members of the Groupe ADP Executive Committee. The aim is to strengthen dialogue with the relevant stakeholders by sharing expectations and involving them in our thinking on the issue of inclusion. The accessibility roadmap, drawn up and rolled out by the Operations Division, in close collaboration with the Paris 2024 project teams and the operational divisions, was presented to them by Laurence Bottéga (DGOE), Head of Service Policy. “The reaction from stakeholders has been fairly positive, but they now want the system to be rolled out as quickly as possible so that they can look forward to an inclusive airport environment that welcomes a multitude of disabilities."
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BAGGAGE: PARIS-CHARLES DE GAULLE SCORES POINTS
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Joint actions with Air France and the recommissioning of the TBF and S3N baggage handling systems have led to very good baggage handling results this summer. Credit: Sébastien Aubry for Groupe ADP.
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Paris-Charles de Gaulle’s baggage handling performance was impressive this summer. The results in terms of delayed/lost baggage in July-August 2023 were markedly better than in 2022, for both local and connecting baggage. Air France has even reported the best performance since its arrival at the airport. “This is the fruit of meticulous collaborative preparatory work with Air France and the mobilisation of the various players in the chain, as well as the actions implemented as part of the baggage robustness plan this summer”, explains Rodolphe Linais, Airport Operations Project Manager in the Baggage Division at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, in charge of the ongoing improvement of baggage processes. In addition, the recommissioning of the TBF and S3N baggage handling systems in the eastern part of the airport and the complete takeover of the TBS4 system have improved the robustness and flexibility of the entire baggage sorting system. On the downside, parts of the baggage handling system in Terminal 1 did malfunction. Thanks to the identification of these malfunctions, solutions will soon be found in terms of working methods and crisis management modes.
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HYDERABAD ACHIEVES
LEVEL 4+ CARBON ACCREDITATION
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Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in India is managed by GMR Airports, a Groupe ADP subsidiary. Credit: GMR Airports for Groupe ADP.
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GMR Hyderabad International Airport has received ACI (Airport Council International) Level 4+ accreditation, the highest level of decarbonisation accreditation for airports, equivalent to carbon neutrality according to the ACA (Airport Carbon Accreditation) rating. This award reflects the airport's commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability. Running on renewable energy and aiming for zero waste, the airport has set itself ambitious targets to achieve net zero internal CO2 emissions by 2030. This effort is further strengthened by investments in sustainable technologies, such as fixed ground power for aircraft, a biodiesel fuel station and the introduction of battery-powered runway vehicles. The airport has also recently teamed up with utility company TSSPDCL to continue operating using renewable energy.
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The number in millions of passengers welcomed by Paris Aéroport in September 2023, i.e. 94.6% of 2019 traffic.
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FUTURE OF WORK: TOWARDS NEW WAYS OF WORKING
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Bertrand Sirven, Chief Communications Officer, is the project's sponsor on the Executive Committee. Credit: Aline Bécue for Groupe ADP.
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A few months ago, Groupe ADP launched an initiative to transform the experience of its employees and to reflect on the future of work. As part of this initiative, brainstorming sessions were held on 10 October, bringing together fifteen employees and experts in the field. The aim of these workshops was to identify the Group's priority issues in terms of ways of working and to propose solutions that could be implemented over the coming months. The initiative was spearheaded by the Communications and Human Resources Divisions, the Innovation department, and sponsored by Bertrand Sirven, Groupe ADP’s Chief Communications Officer.
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EASYJET SETS UP
UNDERGROUND CO2 STORAGE
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easyJet is to acquire CO2 credits from Airbus. The CO2 will be captured from the air and stored underground in order to offset emissions of this contributor to global warming. Like the rest of the aviation industry, which is responsible for between 2% and 3% of global CO2 emissions, the airline has committed to achieving zero net CO2 emissions by 2050. Airbus will purchase 400,000 tonnes of carbon credits over four years from the American company 1PointFive, which is due to commission a capture and storage facility in Texas at a depth of almost 2,000 metres.
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EUROPEAN AIRPORTS:
PRE-CRISIS PASSENGER LEVELS BY 2024
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European airport operators believe they will return to their pre-Covid passenger volumes as early as next year, a year earlier than expected, according to the Airports Council International (ACI-Europe). It predicts that the volume of passengers travelling through Europe's airports this year will be 95.5% of that in 2019, before the pandemic.
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AIR FRANCE WILL NOT RESUME FLIGHTS TO MALI
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Although Air France had announced that it would resume services to Mali from 13 October using an aircraft and crews from a third-party airline, EuroAtlantic Airways, the ruling junta in Bamako has decided to cancel the authorisation granted to the airline. No resumption date has been set as yet.
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VOLOTEA,
ALL THE MAKINGS OF A GREAT
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In the eleven years since its inception, Volotea has made a breakthrough in European air travel by focusing on routes between medium-sized cities. The Spanish low-cost airline, which operates 400 routes and serves approximately 100 airports, expects to carry almost 10.5 million passengers this year, 38% more than in 2019. 60% of its business is in France, and last summer it became France's leading airline in terms of the number of routes it operates, with 61 domestic routes compared with Air France’s 55. The next step is for the airline to bid for the public service delegation contract between Corsica and mainland France, currently operated by Air France and Air Corsica. A first for a low-cost airline.
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Director of publication: Bertrand Sirven
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