Well, this is not really a surprise. As beautiful as it is, the French capital has never really stood out for the quality of its airports. At the end of 2023, one of them even received the title of "worst airport in Europe" from the Flightright platform, while another joined the top 15 of the least punctual airports in Europe. But not satisfied with being among the worst in Europe, it is now a global ranking that confirms the bad news. Just days before the Olympic Games and the arrival of several million French and foreign tourists, it promises...
Paris at the bottom of the global ranking
Every year since 2015, AirHelp, the world's largest passenger rights technology company, compiles a ranking of the world's best airports.A ranking considered as the most comprehensive and accurate based on data from airports around the world. In total, 240 airports from 70 different countries worldwide have been analyzed and compared this year. And the result is clear... Paris Charles de Gaulle (Roissy CDG) officially ranks among the worst airports in the world, coming in at the 216th position. The Parisian airport receives an overall rating of 7.02: 6.6 for punctuality, 7.3 for customer ratings, and a saving grace score of 8 for its shops and dining areas. At Orly and Beauvais, it's a bit better, but not glorious: the former ranks 186th out of 240 with an overall rating of 7.26, and the latter takes the 209th place with a rating of 7.11. However, despite the flattering ranking, the scores themselves are not catastrophic, giving us hope to be able to.Avoiding the worst during the Olympics.
At the top of the global ranking, it's the Doha Hamad Airport in Qatar that takes the 1st place with an average score of 8.52 closely followed by the Cape Town Airport in South Africa (8.50) and the Nagoya Chubu Airport in Japan (8.49). It's worth noting that Japan is the country most represented in the top 10 with three airports (two for South Africa and Brazil). So, we still have some progress to make in France before reaching the top spots in the ranking.
The top 10 French airports
On the French side, it's the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport that takes the top spot (115th globally), followed by Nantes-Atlantique (138th) and Lyon Saint-Exupéry (142nd). The capital city only reaches 5th position in the ranking with Paris Orly, while Paris Beauvais and Paris Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle are lagging behind.They respectively rank in 7th and 9th position in the French ranking.
For this ranking, AirHelp took into account punctuality (60%), user reviews (20%), and the quality of dining areas and shops (20%). The data were mainly obtained through the AirHelp data platform, which monitors over 4,000 airports worldwide, and thanks to the personal experiences of 17,000 passengers from over 60 countries, analyzing airport performance from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024.
