After 4️8 years of faithful services, the Airelles cable car at Font Romeu Pyrénées 2000 in the French Pyrenees is to be replaced by a new gondola.
The Altiservice company which runs the lifts estimates that the lift has carried 7,360,000 people over the past five decades, since its debut in 1975.
The new lift, due to go into service this Christmas 2023, will be a Leitner built gondola with 10-seat panoramic cabins.
The lift will have an uplift capacity of 2,400 skis per hour, triple the capacity of the old lift.
With a view to the growing summer tourism market, the cabins can also carry two mountain bikers and their bikes outside the ski season.