The Haute-Savoie administrative department has awarded a 15-year concession contract for Annecy Mont-Blanc Airport to french airport operator, VINCI Airports.
VINCI Airports and the Haute-Savoie administrative department signed the concession contract on 23 July at a ceremony attended by Martial Saddier, President of the Haute-Savoie administrative department, Nicolas Notebaert, CEO of VINCI Concessions and Chairman of VINCI Airports, and Sabine Granger, Head of French regional airports at VINCI.
Under the agreement, VINCI Airports will the concession for Annecy Mont-Blanc Airport for 15 years starting on a January 2022. It will be tasked with managing, operating, promoting and developing the gateway to the Alps. All the airport’s current staff will join the wholly owned VINCI Airports subsidiary handling the airport’s concession.
VINCI plans to invest around €10 million jointly funded by the Haute-Savoie administrative department, to support the airport’s expansion in business and leisure travel. The investment plan will focus on three primary areas: modernising the runway, enhancing quality of services (including the entire revamp of the terminal), and rolling out an ambitious environmental policy to speed up the airport’s ecological transition.
Environmental measures will include energy retrofits inside the airport buildings, establishing photovoltaic panels for the airport’s consumption, replacing light bulbs with LEDs, installing electric vehicle charging stations, replacing ground support vehicles with electric ones and pushing ahead with Annecy Mont-Blanc Airport’s initiatives under Airports Council International’s (ACI’s) Airport Carbon Accreditation programme.
