Lille Airport

Lille Airport [1]
Aéroport de Lille [1]
Lille-Lesquin Airport
Aéroport de Lille-Lesquin
IATA: LILICAO: LFQQ
LIL
Location of airport in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Socièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
Serves Lille, France
Location Lesquin, France
Elevation AMSL 157 ft / 48 m
Website www.lille.aeroport.fr
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt
02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
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 1,147,924 passengers in 2009.[4] In terms of shipping, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes of freight which pass through each year.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Aigle Azur Algiers, Oran
Seasonal: Tlemcen
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
Air France Marseille
Air France operated by Régional Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse, Strasbourg
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi
Chalair Aviation Brest
Easyjet Nice [begins 30 March 2012], Toulouse [begins 26 March 2012]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Marseille, Porto
Transavia France Seasonal: Djerba, Enfidha, Heraklion, Ibiza
Tunisair Tunis [begins 30 March]
Vueling Barcelona [begins 25 March], Toulouse

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille), official website
  2. ^ a b c LFQQ – Lille Lesquin (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 9 Feb 2012.
  3. ^ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
  4. ^ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009

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