Lille Airport

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Lille Airport

Aéroport de Lille
LIL airport main terminal (1).jpg
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSocièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
ServesLille, France
LocationLesquin, France
Elevation AMSL157 ft / 48 m
Coordinates50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694Coordinates: 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694
Websitelille.aeroport.fr
Maps
Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France
Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France
LFQQ is located in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
LFQQ
LFQQ
Location of Lille Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt
02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers2,078,549
Passenger Change 17-18Increase9.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

Lille Airport[1] (French: Aéroport de Lille[1]) (IATA: LIL[3], ICAO: LFQQ[2]) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille,[2] a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department.

The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille. It is the 12th busiest French airport in number of passengers: around 970,000 passengers in 2001 and 1,397,637 passengers in 2012.[4] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.

Airlines and destinations[]

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Air Algérie Algiers, Constantine, Oran
Air France Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse
Seasonal: Calvi[6]
Binter Canarias Seasonal: Gran Canaria[7]
easyJet Bordeaux, Geneva, Nantes,[8] Nice, Toulouse
Seasonal: Faro,[9] Málaga,[10] Palma de Mallorca[11]
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba
Ryanair Bordeaux, Kraków (begins 1 November 2021),[12] Marseille
Seasonal: Porto[13]
Smartwings Seasonal: Faro,[14] Heraklion,[14] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South,[14] Varna[15]
Transavia Seasonal: Biarritz,[16] Montpellier[17]
TUI fly Belgium[18] Seasonal: Agadir, Athens, Béjaïa, Casablanca, Corfu,[18] Djerba, Faro,[18] Heraklion, Kos,[18] Málaga, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda,[18] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South, Tlemcen
Twin Jet Brest, Strasbourg
Volotea Nantes,[19] Nice, Toulouse[20]
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Figari, Montpellier, Perpignan

Statistics[]

See source Wikidata query and sources.

Ground transportation[]

There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flanders railway station.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 9 September 2021.
  3. ^ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ^ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search retrieved 11 May 2017
  6. ^ Liu, Jim. "Air France S20 Short-Haul Network additions as of 28JAN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Binter Canarias desembarca en Francia e Italia". 8 April 2021.
  8. ^ "EasyJet plans additional French routes in S17".
  9. ^ https://www.easyjet.com/en/
  10. ^ https://www.easyjet.com/en/
  11. ^ https://www.easyjet.com/en/
  12. ^ https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
  13. ^ "Ryanair".
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Smartwings adds various French routes in S17".
  15. ^ "Smartwings adds Lille – Varna service from June 2019".
  16. ^ https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/book-a-flight/flights/search/
  17. ^ https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/book-a-flight/flights/search/
  18. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Flight plan". tui.be.
  19. ^ "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse".
  20. ^ "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse".

External links[]

Media related to Lille Lesquin International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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