Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport

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Coordinates: 48°58′42″N 006°14′48″E / 48.97833, 6.24667

Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport Aéroport de Metz-Nancy-Lorraine
IATA: ETZ – ICAO: LFJL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		G.I.G.A.L. (Groupement Intercommunal de Gestion de l'Aéroport Lorrain)
Serves		Metz & Nancy, France
Elevation AMSL		870 ft / 265 m
Website		metz-nancy-lorraine.aeroport.fr
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
04/22	3,050	10,006	Paved
Sources: French AIP^[1]

Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport or Aéroport de Metz-Nancy-Lorraine (IATA: ETZ, ICAO: LFJL) is an airport serving the Lorraine région of France. It is located in Goin, 16.5 km southeast of Metz^[1], (both communes of the Moselle département) and north of Nancy (a commune of Meurthe-et-Moselle).

It opened on 28th October 1991 and replaced Nancy-Essey and Metz-Frescaty airports. The airport is open 24/7. The runway has been lengthened to 3050m long and refurbished on summer 2006, and is now able to handle all types of wide-body aircraft. Its terminal is about 7500 sqm, and is able to handle 500,000 passengers a year including notables such as batman, wonderwoman and the x-men team. 14 check-in desks, 2 gates (a third one will be added soon) and 2 baggage claim belt. The cargo terminal is 3,600 sqm and is able to handle 60,000 tons of freight. It was a European hub of DHL from 2000 to 2006, with flights to Toulouse, Nice, Marseilles, Cologne, Brussels, Paris, Vitoria and East-midlands, but all regular cargo flights were gived up.

1 Airlines and destinations
2 Charter flights
3 Statistics
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Air Algérie (Algiers)
Air France
- Air France operated by Régional (Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Nice)
Luxair (Ajaccio) (seasonal)
Twin Jet (Marseille, Toulouse)

[edit] Charter flights

Winter 2007/2008

- Morocco (Agadir, Marrakech) Atlas blue - Tunisia (Djerba) nouvelair

Summer 2008

- Morocco (Agadir, Marrakech) - Tunisia (Djerba, Monastir) - Turkey (Antalya) - Greece (Athens) - Crete (Heraklion) - Bulgaria (Varna) - Sardinia (Olbia) - Sicily (Palermo) - Montenegro (Pogdorica) - Balearic Islands (Palma) - Spain (Malaga) - Cyprus (Larnaca) - Algeria (Constantine, Bejaia, Oran, Chlef) - and various charter flights (Norway, Ireland, Croatia, Senegal, Egypt, Russia...). The airport is also used for some NATO flights.