| Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry |
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| IATA: LYS – ICAO: LFLL
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Lyon Airports (Aéroport de Lyon) | ||
| Serves | Lyon, France | ||
| Location | Colombier-Saugnieu, France | ||
| Hub for | Air France, and Easyjet | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 821 ft / 250 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 18R/36L | 4,000 | 13,124 | Asphalt |
| 18L/36R | 2,670 | 8,760 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 7,979,274 | ||
| Freight (tons) | 37,207 | ||
| Source: French AIP[1] French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] |
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Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (French: Aéroport Lyon Saint-Exupéry) (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is one of the two airports located in the agglomeration of Lyon, France. The airport was named in 2000 in honour of the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a native of Lyon, on the centenary of his birth.
The airport lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, 11 NM (20 km; 13 mi) east southeast[2] of Lyon city centre. Its two runways are aligned north-south. It is an important transport facility for the entire Rhône-Alpes region. Coach links connect the airport with the centre of Lyon and other towns in the area including Chambéry and Grenoble.
Railway transport in the form of Rhônexpress began in August 2010 and links the TGV rail station of Lyon Part-Dieu with the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry in less than 30 minutes.
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The airport was inaugurated by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on 12 April 1975 and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the old Lyon-Bron Airport which could not be extended as it was located in an urban area.
In 1994 the LGV Rhône-Alpes high-speed rail line brought TGV service to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy of the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature.
Originally named Lyon Satolas Airport, in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française who died in action during the Second World War.
Since 1997, the airport is a major regional hub for the airline Air France.
In 2009, the airport served 7,717,609 passengers,[3] making it France's fourth busiest airport after Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Nice airports.
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | Dublin | 1 |
| Aigle Azur | Algiers, Béjaïa, Constantine, Oran, Sétif | 1 |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Annaba, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Sétif | 1 |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Casablanca | 3 |
| Air Austral | Saint-Denis de la Réunion | 1 |
| Air France | Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Tunis | 2 |
| Air France operated by Air Corsica | Ajaccio, Bastia Seasonal: Figari |
2 |
| Air France operated by Airlinair | Clermont-Ferrand, Florence, Limoges, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Paris-Orly, Pau, Toulouse | 2 |
| Air France operated by Brit Air | Barcelona, Birmingham, Brest, Caen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Le Havre, Lille, Nantes, Nice, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg | 2 |
| Air France operated by Régional | Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Biarritz, Bologna, Brussels, Clermont-Ferrand, Lorient, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Pau, Stuttgart, Venice-Marco Polo | 2 |
| Air Malta | Seasonal: Malta | 1 |
| Air Mediterranee | Seasonal: Agadir, Athens, Bodrum, Chlef, Corfu, Dakar, Djerba, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jijel, Malaga, Marrakech, Monastir, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South | 1 |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montreal-Trudeau | 1 |
| Airlinair | La Rochelle, Poitiers | 2 |
| Armavia | Seasonal: Yerevan | 1 |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | 1 |
| BMI Regional | Manchester | 1 |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 1 |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels | 1 |
| Chalair Aviation | Le Havre | 2 |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter | 1 |
| Corsairfly | Mauritius, Saint-Denis de la Réunion | 1 |
| Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Split | 1 |
| EasyJet | Agadir, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld [ends 2 June 2012], Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Bordeaux, Brest, Brussels, Casablanca, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Pisa, Porto, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo Seasonal: Ajaccio [begins 7 April 2012], Bastia, Biarritz, Bristol, Ibiza, Liverpool, Olbia, Palermo [begins 8 April 2012] |
3 |
| Hex'Air | Castres, Rodez | 1 |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
1 |
| Jet4you | Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech | 1 |
| Lufthansa | Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Düsseldorf, Frankfurt | 1 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf | 1 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf, Munich | 1 |
| Onur Air | Seasonal: Antalya, Bodrum, İzmir | 1 |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca | 1 |
| Royal Air Maroc operated by Atlas Blue | Agadir, Fes, Marrakech | 1 |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen | 1 |
| Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Air | Copenhagen | 1 |
| Swiss International Air Lines operated by Helvetic Airways | Zürich | 1 |
| Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Zürich | 1 |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 1 |
| TAP operated by Portugália | Lisbon | 1 |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă | 2 |
| Transavia.com France | Djerba, Monastir Seasonal: Heraklion |
3 |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Tunis, Tozeur | 1 |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 1 |
| Vueling | Barcelona [begins 25 March 2012], Malaga [begins 11 February 2012], Palma de Mallorca [begins 28 March 2012] | 3 |
| WOW air | Reykjavik-Keflavik [begins 2 June 2012] | 3 |
| XL Airways France | Seasonal: Catania, Punta Cana | 1 |
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
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| Air Algérie operated by Saga Airlines | Béjaïa | 1 |
| Air Méditerranée | Málaga Seasonal: Chlef, Jijel, Oslo, Seville, Shannon |
1 |
| Air VIA | London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Münster-Osnabrück | 1 |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Burgas Seasonal: Varna |
1 |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya | 1 |
| Strategic Airlines | Athens, Funchal, Lisbon, Porto, Thessaloniki | 2 |
| Transaero | Seasonal: Moscow Domodedovo | 1 |
| XL Airways France | Seasonal: Heraklion, Malaga, Olbia, Palma | 1 |