Beauvais airport makes a new start, colossal work undertaken in 2026

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Beauvais-Tillé Airport (Oise) wants to change dimension with the arrival of Bellova. This new group led by Egis (65% shareholder), Bouygues and two other companies, will manage the operation of the 10^e French airport for the next thirty years. This change of delegate is necessarily accompanied by great ambitions.

The SMABT (Joint union of Beauvais-Tillé airport), owner of the regional infrastructure with 5.6 million passengers (2023 figures), gave the green light to this new project on April 29. While setting its conditions. Those of “controlled development”. A threshold of 45,000 movements of aircraft per year was thus set within 10 years. A ceiling which corresponds to the “economic equilibrium threshold” for the new delegatee.

The infrastructure would also like to approach the symbolic bar of 8 million passengers having embarked or disembarked on its tracks by 2035.

“Reach the standards of major international airports”

Several projects will be undertaken between the end of 2026 and the end of 2029, once the fauna/flora study has been carried out over four seasons.

We have a great infrastructure modernization project which will allow us to offer travelers the standards of major international airports. All while improving the working conditions of airport employees. Because before being a capacity project, it is a modernization project.

The budget allocated to all these projects will be substantial: 190 M€.

A gigantic shopping area

“Operations are currently spread across two terminals. We are going to centralize all of this. There will be a grand hall where passengers will be able to check in, which will allow reduce waiting time. The commercial offer will also be expanded, with a large crossing store and numerous restaurants,” explains Anthony Martin.

The two current terminals (T1 and T2) will therefore only form a single building in order to “make the passenger journey smoother”. A pier will make it possible to physically materialize this separation between flights in Schengen area countries and the others.

This new space, currently capped at 14,000 m²will triple in volume, to reach a capacity of 43,000 m².

Taxiway and aircraft rotations

This was one of the commitments of the group of designers-builders mandated by Bouygues Bâtiment Grand Ouest: “Around fifteen local companies from Oise or Somme were called upon to carry out all these projects,” continues the new boss of the airport. Including those of both future new taxiway rampsintended to avoid traffic jams between aircraft on the runways.

The planes will also have six additional parking lots to spread their wings and promote rotation des vols.

Because well-controlled operations also provide airlines with the assurance of improving their punctuality rates. A strategic issue in Beauvais, considered the “ 3rd Paris airport » after Roissy and Orly.

“Ryanair, which is the first operator on the platform, is one of the most punctual companies in Europe for example,” recalls Anthony Martin, to illustrate his point.

2,000 additional parking spaces

In the order of priorities, the movement of the bus station in the current “P1” and “P2” car parks comes first. This operation should result in a net gain of2000 places de parking for Beauvais-Tillé airport, France’s fourth airport for low-cost transport. “It’s one of the airport’s somewhat critical congestion points currently,” admits its new executive director.

“The renewal of the fleet of buses running on biofuel will also be amplified,” adds an Egis spokesperson.

“It’s an ambitious, but controlled plan”summarizes Anthony Martin, who will be the metronome of all these projects. A challenge that does not frighten this 54-year-old man after having already devoted nearly 14 years of his life to the management of airports in France and Portugal.

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