The La Réunion-Roland Garros airport welcomed 1,821,828 passengers, excluding those in transit, between January and August 2026. This is a 1% increase compared to the same period in 2025. When including passengers who passed through the airport without staying, the total number of travelers reached nearly 1.864 million, a rise of 1.2%. The number of people passing through the airport without staying has grown by 10.5%, nearing 42,000 travelers. Air freight at the airport has seen a more significant increase. Exports rose by 19.1%, largely driven by shipments of fishery products, pineapples, and vanilla. Between January and August 2026, the airport handled 21,559 tonnes of freight, a 5% increase overall. Imports remained almost the same, rising by just 0.8%. This is compared to a period in 2025 marked by unusually high shipments of equipment after cyclones Chido and Garance hit the region. Exports from Reunion totaled 5,529 tonnes, an increase of nearly 900 tonnes compared to the previous year. In total, 1,821,828 travelers were recorded arriving or departing from the international airport of La Réunion during the first eight months of 2026. This represents approximately 17,300 more passengers than during the same period in 2025. At the same time, the number of aircraft movements decreased by 0.1%, suggesting that flights are carrying more passengers per flight. Travel between La Réunion and mainland France, referred to as the Hexagone, has remained nearly stable. More than 1.05 million passengers traveled between the two regions between January and August, showing a slight increase of 0.3%. In the Indian Ocean region, traffic has varied. Johannesburg saw an 11.9% increase in travelers. Mauritius, the main destination in the region by volume, recorded a 1.1% rise, reaching over 441,000 passengers. However, traffic to Mayotte dropped by 6.4%, partly due to fewer available seats. Flights to Madagascar also decreased by 3.5%. International connections outside the Indian Ocean have grown the most. By the end of August, more than 78,000 passengers had traveled to these destinations, a 33% increase compared to the previous year. The airport says this is partly due to increased traffic to Bangkok, Thailand, operated by Air Austral, and the opening of a new route to Chennai, India, by IndiGo. However, this route will be discontinued in October next year. The growth in air traffic is largely attributed to local exports. Fishery product exports have risen by 22%, and pineapple exports by 14% by the end of August. These results have also benefited from a temporary increase in vanilla shipments being rerouted from Madagascar.