Lille Airport

Lille Airport
Aéroport de Lille
(Advanced Landing Ground B-51)
IATA: LILICAO: LFQQ
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
Coordinates 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694Coordinates: 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694
Website lille.aeroport.fr
Maps

Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France
LFQQ

Location of Lille Airport

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt
02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 1,596,700
Passenger Change 13-14 Decrease3.9%
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 1,397,637 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

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens[5]
Aigle Azur Algiers, Oran
Seasonal: Tlemcen
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
easyJet Bordeaux, Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa (begins 10 June 2016), Nice, Toulouse
easyJet Switzerland Geneva
HOP! Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Biarritz, Calvi, Figari, Perpignan
Jetairfly[6]Seasonal: Marrakesh
Ryanair Marseille, Porto
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal: Split, Dubrovnik
Transavia France Agadir, Djerba, Marrakesh, Oujda, Venice-Marco Polo
Volotea Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Figari, Palma de Mallorca[7]
Vueling Barcelona
XL Airways France[8] Seasonal: Agadir, Ajaccio, Bodrum, Catania, Corfu, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Malaga,[9] Marrakesh, Monastir, Olbia,[10] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Split, Tenerife–South

Statistics

Airport Passenger Traffic

Year Passengers Percentage Change Year Passengers Percentage Change Year Passengers Percentage Change
1961 9,985 -1980 421,273Increase 9,47 % 1999 978,908 Increase 13,14 %
1962 14,829Increase 48,51 % 1981 450,934Increase 7,04 % 2000 990,598 Increase 1,19 %
1963 20,316Increase 37,00 % -1982 466,588Increase 3,47 % 2001 970,391 Decrease -2,04 %
1964 32,569Increase 60,31 % 1983 485,617Increase 4,08 % 2002 922,791 Decrease -4,90 %
1965 45,734Increase 40,42 % 1984 485,680Increase 0,01 % 2003 873,602 Decrease -5,33 %
1966 55,120Increase 20,52 % 1985 474,760Decrease -2,25 % 2004 848,037 Decrease -2,93 %
1967 69,735Increase 26,51 % 1986 520,357Increase 9,60 % 2005 842,650 Decrease -0,63 %
1968 63,208Decrease -9,36 % 1987 567,029Increase 8,97 % 2006 936,032 Increase 11,08 %
1969 82,305Increase 30,21 % 1988 641,199Increase 13,08 % 2007 1,051,758 Increase 12,36 %
1970 117,295Increase 42,51 % 1989 795,673Increase 24,09 % 2008 1,014,704Decrease -3,52 %
1971 125,967Increase 7,39 % 1990 807,789Increase 1,52 % 2009 1,147,924Increase 13,13 %
1972 156,871Increase 24,53 % 1991 758,727Decrease -6,07%2010 1,170,693Increase 1,98 %
1973 171,471Increase 9,31 % 1992 799,092Increase 5,32 % 2011 1,164,631Decrease -0,52 %
1974 177,188Increase 3,33 % 1993 839,828Increase 5,10 % 2012 1,397,637Increase 20 %
1975 205,292 Increase 15,86 % 1994 805,624Decrease -4,07 % 2013 1,661,741Increase 18,9 %
1976 268,932Increase 31,00 % 1995 802,031Decrease -0,45 % 2014 1,596,700Decrease -3,91 %
1977 291,432Increase 8,37 % 1996 849,405 Increase 5,91 % 2015
1978 375,708Increase 28,92 % 1997 824,934Decrease -2,88 %
1979 384,824Increase 2,43 % 1998 865,193Increase 4,88 %

References

External links

Media related to Lille Lesquin International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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