Air Austral announced on June 23 the achievement of the first of the three objectives set by Hugues Marchessaux, Chairman of the company's executive : find, From the year 2024-2025, a positive operating result.
At the end of this exercise, fenced on March 31, 2025, Air Austral displays a positive operating result of 2 million euros, while it had been negative 40 million a year earlier. The company's annual turnover reaches 447 million euros, up about 2%, “despite a 4% drop in capacity, mainly linked to aircraft downtime and unfavorable weather conditions”, comments Air Austral, whose service to Mayotte was interrupted for two weeks, after the passage of Cyclone Chido on December 15. The company transported 1,16 million passengers in total and notes an increase in freight traffic of 9% with 14,100 tonnes transported over the financial year. The net result for the year, however, remains in the red, at -11 million euros. Air Austral hopes to return to a positive net result at the end of the 2025-2026 financial year and then sustain this profitability over time., the two other major objectives of Hugues Marchessaux.
