Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport

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Coordinates: 49°27′16″N 002°06′46″E / 49.45444, 2.11278

Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport Aéroport de Paris Beauvais Tillé

IATA: BVA – ICAO: LFOB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (CCI) de l'Oise
Serves		Paris
Location		Beauvais / Tillé
Elevation AMSL		359 ft / 109 m
Website		www.aeroportbeauvais.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
13/31	2,430	7,972	Asphalt
04/22	1,105	3,625	Asphalt
Sources: French AIP^[1] and DAFIF^[2]^[3]

Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport or Aéroport de Paris Beauvais Tillé (IATA: BVA, ICAO: LFOB) is a French airport, originally the small regional airport of the city of Beauvais. This airport was built in the 1930s and improved by the German army during the Second World War. In 1956, it was opened to commercial use. Since the low-cost carrier Ryanair made Beauvais Tillé its Paris-area terminal, it has become the third-largest Paris airport. It is actually located in the community of Tillé, 3.5 km northeast of Beauvais, a commune of the Oise département, and is 85km north of Paris.

As of 2005, the airport had three gates, housed within a marquee tent while the permanent facilities were being redeveloped. A simple permanent structure is now complete, with four gates and a number of bars, restaurants and shopping areas. The airport is serviced by a shuttle to the city center and rail station that operates eight times a day; many passengers use a private scheduled coach for a 75-minute trip to Paris, ending beside the Palais des Congrès at Porte Maillot, located in the 17th arrondissement, approximately a kilometre west of the Arc de Triomphe (Irish passengers to Paris sometimes refer to this destination as the James Joyce pub due to the pub's close proximity to the terminus). The fare is 26 euros return, 13 euros one way.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Blue Air (Bucharest-Băneasa)
Blue Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney) [ends 9 July]
Ryanair (Alicante, Bournemouth[begins October 28], Bremen, Dublin, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Orio al Serio, Pisa, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Reus [begins October 1], Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia, Venice-Treviso)
Wizz Air (Budapest, Katowice, Warsaw)