How to explain this deterioration in western air traffic compared to other parts of the world? Especially since the airport criteria, and this is no surprise, go in the same direction.

The combined airport capacities of the three main European platforms: Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly, London Heathrow and Gatwick and Frankfurt total 300 million passengers per year, while the three main hubs in the Middle East: Istanbul, Dubai and Doha have facilities capable of handling 525 million passengers. In other words: the Western decline in air traffic is on the horizon.

Traffic will of course continue to increase, but very slowly due to environmental constraints that will block the expansion of airport capacity Major Asian platforms, and particularly those in the Gulf region, are already capable of handling 2040-2050 traffic.

Frankly, the volume race that largely explains the West’s decline is not an end in itself. It may be necessary to meet a growing need already seen in the countries around the Indian Ocean, which as we recall stretches from Australia to South Africa.

In addition, this demand is largely anticipated by the big companies, which do not hesitate to place unprecedented orders: 1000 aircraft for India, divided into 500 for Air India/Vistara and 500 for Indigo, of which it is necessary in addition, underline that New governance exercised by Pieter Elbersthe former manager of KLM and no less than 600 for Turkish Airlines, not counting the few hundred that will necessarily be announced by the new airlines of Saudi Arabia.