Lille Airport
| Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille (Advanced Landing Ground B-51) | |||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°ECoordinates: 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lille.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France | |||||||||||||||
  LFQQ Location of Lille Airport | |||||||||||||||
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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 1,397,637 passengers in 2012.[4] In terms of shipping, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes of freight which pass through each year.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille:[5]
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens |
| Aigle Azur | Algiers, Oran |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Oran |
| easyJet | Biarritz,[6] Bordeaux, Faro, Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa (ends 27 October 2017), Nantes,[6] Naples, Nice, Toulouse, Venice |
| easyJet Switzerland | Geneva |
| HOP! | Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Biarritz, Calvi, Figari, Perpignan |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba |
| Ryanair | Marseille, Porto (ends 4 November 2017) |
| SmartWings operated by Travel Service | Seasonal: Heraklion,[7] Faro,[7] Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South[7] |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Agadir, Marrakesh Seasonal charter: Cagliari, Catania, Kalamata, Palermo, Patras, Split |
| Volotea | Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Figari, Palma de Mallorca |
| Vueling | Barcelona Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
| XL Airways France | Seasonal: Fort-de-France (begins 3 April 2018)[8] |
Statistics
| Year | Passengers | Percentage Change | Year | Passengers | Percentage Change | Year | Passengers | Percentage Change |
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| 1961 | 9,985 | - | 1980 | 421,273 |  9,47 % | 1999 | 978,908 | 13,14 % |
| 1962 | 14,829 | 48,51 % | 1981 | 450,934 | 7,04 % | 2000 | 990,598 | 1,19 % |
| 1963 | 20,316 | 37,00 % - | 1982 | 466,588 | 3,47 % | 2001 | 970,391 |  -2,04 % |
| 1964 | 32,569 | 60,31 % | 1983 | 485,617 | 4,08 % | 2002 | 922,791 | -4,90 % |
| 1965 | 45,734 | 40,42 % | 1984 | 485,680 | 0,01 % | 2003 | 873,602 | -5,33 % |
| 1966 | 55,120 | 20,52 % | 1985 | 474,760 | -2,25 % | 2004 | 848,037 | -2,93 % |
| 1967 | 69,735 | 26,51 % | 1986 | 520,357 | 9,60 % | 2005 | 842,650 | -0,63 % |
| 1968 | 63,208 | -9,36 % | 1987 | 567,029 | 8,97 % | 2006 | 936,032 | 11,08 % |
| 1969 | 82,305 | 30,21 % | 1988 | 641,199 | 13,08 % | 2007 | 1,051,758 | 12,36 % |
| 1970 | 117,295 | 42,51 % | 1989 | 795,673 | 24,09 % | 2008 | 1,014,704 | -3,52 % |
| 1971 | 125,967 | 7,39 % | 1990 | 807,789 | 1,52 % | 2009 | 1,147,924 | 13,13 % |
| 1972 | 156,871 | 24,53 % | 1991 | 758,727 | -6,07% | 2010 | 1,170,693 | 1,98 % |
| 1973 | 171,471 | 9,31 % | 1992 | 799,092 | 5,32 % | 2011 | 1,164,631 | -0,52 % |
| 1974 | 177,188 | 3,33 % | 1993 | 839,828 | 5,10 % | 2012 | 1,397,637 | 20% |
| 1975 | 205,292 | 15,86 % | 1994 | 805,624 | -4,07 % | 2013 | 1,661,741 | 18,9 % |
| 1976 | 268,932 | 31,00 % | 1995 | 802,031 | -0,45 % | 2014 | 1,596,700 | -3,91 % |
| 1977 | 291,432 | 8,37 % | 1996 | 849,405 | 5,91 % | 2015 | 1,538,814 | -3,63 % |
| 1978 | 375,708 | 28,92 % | 1997 | 824,934 | -2,88 % | 2016 | 1,781,490 | 15,6% |
| 1979 | 384,824 | 2,43 % | 1998 | 865,193 | 4,88 % |
References
- 1 2 3 Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille), official website
- 1 2 3 LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 17 August 2017.
- ↑ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ↑ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search retrieved 11 May 2017
- 1 2 http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271503/easyjet-plans-additional-french-routes-in-s17/
- 1 2 3 http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/272123/smartwings-adds-various-french-routes-in-s17/
- ↑ http://www.air-journal.fr/2017-03-28-xl-airways-les-antilles-depuis-7-villes-de-province-5179243.html
External links
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