| Lille Airport [1] Aéroport de Lille [1] Lille-Lesquin Airport Aéroport de Lille-Lesquin |
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| IATA: LIL – ICAO: LFQQ
LIL
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| 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 | |||
| 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 | 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 |