Bordeaux-Mérignac airport passengers, France
Bordeaux-Mérignac airport passengers, France stood at 460,741 Passengers in Mar 2026, according to DGAC – Direction générale de l'Aviation civile (data.gouv.fr). It is one of the indicators in the Monthly air traffic table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Jan 2002 to Mar 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Monthly air traffic table
| Indicator | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | 11-2025 | 10-2025 | 09-2025 | 08-2025 | 07-2025 | 06-2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers by airport | |||||||||||
| Bordeaux-Mérignac | 460,741 | 399,350 | 359,900 | 470,117 | 415,504 | 548,988 | 538,633 | 598,864 | 574,914 | 562,596 | |
| Réunion Roland Garros | 202,970 | 162,294 | 263,230 | 271,763 | 225,122 | 264,189 | 199,003 | 280,530 | 292,841 | 193,614 |
Understanding bordeaux-Mérignac airport passengers, France
Commercial passenger traffic traversing the southwestern maritime gateway measures all arriving and departing individuals on scheduled and non-scheduled flights. The scope includes domestic links and international European routes, omitting private general aviation and airside transit passengers. Compared with eastern or northern counterparts, this facility reflects a unique regional economic corridor combining corporate travel with seasonal leisure demand.
Analyzing the series requires filtering out recurring holiday distortions and summer leisure surges, which render period-on-period monthly comparisons misleading. Year-over-year matching evaluations provide the most honest reflection of underlying trajectory. Early data releases incorporate provisional airline reports that undergo routine administrative revisions. Users should avoid equating passenger throughput with local economic output, as regional transit flows do not uniformly convert into local expenditure.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this airport handle significant intercontinental routes?
- Traffic is predominantly European and domestic, with limited intercontinental long-haul operations.
- Why are sequential month comparisons unhelpful for this dataset?
- Severe seasonal swings mask true underlying performance when comparing adjacent months.
- Are preliminary figures subject to revision?
- Yes, initial counts are routinely adjusted as airlines submit finalized operational manifests.