2023-11-29 03:48:20
An inglorious record. Planes departing from and arriving in France have never been so on time in ten years as in 2022, in a context of recovery following the pandemic, according to a report published Tuesday. “Whatever the type of flights (domestic, medium-haul and long-haul), 2022 represents the highest delay rate in the last ten years (period 2013-2022),” specified the Quality Authority transport service (AQST).
In his rapport, the authority notes that 19.6% of domestic flights experienced delays last year, a rate that rises to 28.1% for medium-haul and 28.4% for long-haul. Air traffic, reduced to zero by Covid-19 and border closures in March 2020, slowly resumed until the end of the Omicron wave in early 2022, before booming once more.
The AQST pointed to a “lack of personnel which primarily affected airlines” and “the difficulties encountered by airports in anticipating the resumption of traffic”. Result: “for domestic and medium-haul flights, the average delay is up compared to 2019, standing at around 46 minutes. On the other hand, for long-haul flights, the average delay is decreasing, standing at around 51 minutes.”
Overall deterioration in the railway
In terms of long-distance rail links, the year 2022 also saw an overall deterioration in punctuality, with a TGV delay rate of 14.2% compared to 11.3% the previous year. The Intercités were late in 16.7% of cases (14.1% in 2021) and the TER in 8% (7.1% the previous year). The AQST explained the phenomenon, for the TGV, by meteorological causes (storms, heatwave) and social causes, such as the December 2022 strike.
On the other hand, rail connections in and around Paris saw their regularity improve in 2022, in particular the Transilien lines R, N and K. Bad students: the L and especially the P. As for the RER, the analysis of the AQST joins observations already deplored by Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM): the RER B and D “have high traffic and a punctuality rate significantly lower than that of the other lines”.
In mid-October, IDFM, SNCF and RATP announced a series of measures to reverse the trend towards deterioration in RER B punctuality.
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