About 35,000 pieces of luggage were lost during a strike by employees of the ADP group on July 1.
There is always “about a thousand bags lost on July 1 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) which could not be returned to their owner, acknowledged Friday the CEO of Groupe ADP Augustin de Romanet, who reiterated his apologies. “Today, as I speak to you, we have around a thousand pieces of luggage that could not be returned to their owner.“Said the boss of Paris airports on BFM Business. “These are pieces of luggage whose tags have been lost, so it is almost an archaeological task for the airlines, which are responsible for finding them.“, he added.
On July 1, a strike by ADP employees led to a three-hour stoppage of the baggage sorters for which the group is responsible and which handle some 220,000 pieces of baggage every day. According to the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune, a total of 35,000 pieces of luggage ended up “lostduring this strike. “For me it’s the only thorn in the summer“Insisted Augustin de Romanet, recalling that he had had the opportunity to apologize. At the beginning of July, the boss of the Paris airports had described the episode as “catastrophicfor the image of the airport.
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Apart from this hitch,our airports were fluid despite extremely heavy traffic“, he underlined, assuring that compared to the other major European hubs (London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam), Paris had done rather well.At Orly, we have regained 2019 traffic. At Charles de Gaulle, this is not the case because Asia remains closed, we are at around 80%“, recalled the boss of the group, predicting a return to 2019 levels for 2024. In Turkey, at Antalya airport, which ADP is the manager, the drop in attendance of Russian tourists “was much compensated by the English, by the Germans“, greeted Augustin de Romanet.