Carcassonne Salvaza Airport

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Coordinates: 43°12′57″N 002°18′31″E / 43.21583, 2.30861

Carcassonne Salvaza Airport Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare
IATA: CCF – ICAO: LFMK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		CCI Carcassonne Limoux Castelnaudary
Serves		Carcassonne, France
Location		carcassonne.aeroport.fr
Elevation AMSL		433 ft / 131 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
10/28	2,050	6,725	Asphalt
Source: French AIP.[1]

Carcassonne Salvaza Airport or Carcassonne Airport (French: Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare) (IATA: CCF, ICAO: LFMK) is the main airport serving the town of Carcassonne and the south of Languedoc. It is located on the northern edge of the city, in the Aude department . It handles commercial national and international flights as well as private, non-regular air traffic. The airport can cater for aircraft operating under VFR.

In the late 1990s the airport started taking budget flights (such as Ryanair) to and from European airports and in 2006 had regular flight connections with Dublin, Shannon, Stansted, Liverpool, East Midlands and Charleroi.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Ryanair (Brussels-Charleroi, Cork [begins 28 May], Dublin, East Midlands, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Shannon)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Carcassonne Airport (official site) (English)
• Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare (official site) (French)
• Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
• Airport information for LFMK at World Aero Data
• Current weather for LFMK at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for CCF at Aviation Safety Network