Liège Airport

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Liège Airport
IATA: LGG – ICAO: EBLG
LGG
Location of airport in Belgium
Summary
Airport type Public & Military
Owner Walloon government
Operator Liege Airport s.a.
Location Liège
Hub for TNT Airways
El Al Cargo
CAL Cargo Air Lines
jetairfly
Elevation AMSL 659 ft / 201 m
Coordinates 50°38′15″N 05°26′36″E / 50.63750°N 5.44333°E / 50.63750; 5.44333Coordinates: 50°38′15″N 05°26′36″E / 50.63750°N 5.44333°E / 50.63750; 5.44333
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05R/23L 12,139 3,700 Asphalt
05L/23R 7,677 2,340 Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Freight (tonnes) 674,469
Passengers 309,206

Liège Airport (IATA: LGG, ICAO: EBLG), also called Liège-Bierset, is an important cargo airport in Belgium. It was at the end of 2011 the 7th biggest cargo airport in Europe. Liège airport is the biggest cargo airport in Belgium and the third biggest for passengers after Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport.[1]

The airport is located in Grâce-Hollogne, Liège Province, north-west of the city of Liège, in the east of Belgium. It is mainly used for freight operation but also serves more than 23 destinations for passengers (mainly charters). Liège is located in the centre of the golden triangle Paris - Amsterdam - Frankfurt that handles 66% of European freight, 75% when taken together with London.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Air Corsica Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia[2]
Jetairfly Alicante, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir, Djerba, Enfidha, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kos, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tétouan, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (ends 31 March 2014), Tenerife-South
Nouvelair Charter: Monastir
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Agadir, Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Enfidha, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Marrakech, Monastir, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South
Tunisair Charter: Enfidha, Djerba

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
Africa West Airlines Bamako, Cotonou, Lomé, Niamey[3]
CAL Cargo Air Lines Frankfurt, Larnaca, New York-JFK, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
El Al Cargo New York-JFK, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Khartoum, Lagos, Luxembourg, Pointe-Noire[4]
FedEx Feeder
operated by Air Contractors		Dublin, Manchester
Icelandair CargoEast Midlands, Humberside, Norrköping, Reykjavík-Keflavík
Kalitta AirBahrain, New York-JFK, Newark
NightexpressFrankfurt
Nordic Global AirlinesLusaka,Johannesburg, Entebbe
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha-Hamad, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
Southern AirDover Air Force Base
TNT Airways Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bergamo, Berlin-Tegel, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brno, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Catania, Delhi, Dubai, Dublin, Budapest, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jönköping, Katowice, Larnaca, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Stansted, Lyon, Madrid, Malmö, Marseille, Munich, Norwich, Nurenberg, Nottingham, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Shanghai-Pudong, Shannon, Shenzhen, Singapore, Tallinn, Tangier, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Toulouse, Turku, Västerås, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Örebro
TNT Airways
operating by ABX Air		Halifax, New York-JFK, Reykjavík-Keflavík
TNT Airways
operating by Ukraine International		Kiev-Boryspil, Vienna

Statistics

Cargo activity

Liège Airport is the world hub of TNT Airways, and the European hub of CAL Cargo Air Lines, El Al Cargo, Ethiopian Cargo and Avient Aviation. The airport is also used as a regular refuelling stop on New York City - Middle East routes by Kalitta Air (including the Newark - Baghdad route for US mail).

As of 2011 : 674,469 tonnes of freight.

Passenger activity

As of 2011 : 309,206 passengers

Other facilities

Avient Aviation has its Continental Europe offices on the airport property.[5][6]

Ground transportation

By car

The airport is located next to the E42 (exit 3), close to an important highway junction.

By bus

  • A special bus (number 57) links the airport to Liège main train station (Liège-Guillemins) where connections can be made with local, national and high speed international trains (Thalys, ICE).

This bus operates every 2 hours from 7 AM to 5 PM, on working days only.
Schedules : Line 57

See also

  • Transportation in Belgium

References

  1. ↑ 2009 report
  2. ↑ http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_une-ligne-reguliere-vers-la-corse-au-depart-de-liege-des-le-mois-d-avril?id=8103283
  3. ↑ Africa West Cargo Schedule
  4. ↑ Ethiopian Airlines Cargo Schedule
  5. ↑ "Welcome." Avient Aviation. Retrieved on 8 August 2011. "With head office in Harare, Zimbabwe, Avient has two further offices; one in continental Europe and the other in the United Kingdom."
  6. ↑ "Contact Us." (Direct link to frame) Avient Aviation. Retrieved on 8 August 2011. "BELGIUM Liege Airport, Cargo Nord, Rue Saint Exupery 22, B-4460, Grace Hollogne, Belgium"
Major international
Minor international
Unscheduled
Military
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