“In thirteen years, we have made Nantes our main base”indicates to The Tribune Gilles Gosselin, France director of Volotea. Established at Nantes-Atlantique airport since 2012, the low-cost airline shows improved performance for the year 2025. From January to September, it says it transported more than 1.4 million passengers, recording an increase of 8% compared to the same period last year. This represents 20% of the airport’s traffic, which recorded seven million passengers in 2024.
It plans to reach two million seats (+7% compared to 2024 and +79% compared to 2019) by the end of the year. “Volotea is the airport’s leading airline in terms of number of destinations served (49 destinations, Editor’s note)after Transavia (32 destinations, Editor’s note) et EasyJet (35 destinations), and the second operator in number of seats »continues Gilles Gosselin. Between 2012 and the end of 2025, Volotea plans to reach more than 12.7 million passengers transported to and from Nantes.
