Bastia – Poretta Airport

Bastia – Poretta Airport
Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
IATA: BIA – ICAO: LFKB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
Serves Bastia, Corsica, France
Location Lucciana
Elevation AMSL 26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E / 42.55000; 9.48472Coordinates: 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E / 42.55000; 9.48472
Website bastia.aeroport.fr
Maps

Corsica region of France
LFKB

Location of the airport in Corsica

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 2,520 8,268 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 1,162,840
Passenger Change 13-14 Increase3.3%
Source: French AIP[1]

Bastia – Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.

History

Airphoto of Borgo Airfield, 15 August 1944. Note the large number of B-17s on the parking apron, probably used during the Invasion of Southern France

In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

USAAF combat units assigned:

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Corsica Seasonal: Dole, Toulon, Liège[3]
Air France Paris-Orly
Air France
operated by Air Corsica		 Marseille, Nice, Paris-Orly
Air France
operated by HOP!		 Seasonal: Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Lyon, Metz-Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse
British Airways Seasonal charter: London-Heathrow
BMI Regional Seasonal: Bristol
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[4]
Chalair Aviation[5] Seasonal: Limoges, Perpignan (both begin 14 May 2016)
CityJet Seasonal: Avignon, Béziers (both begin 25 June 2016)[6]
easyJet Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Lyon, Manchester, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings Düsseldorf (begins 30 April 2016),[7] Vienna[8]
Flybe Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton
Germanwings Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
IGavion
operated by Skytaxi		Seasonal: Dole[9]
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine		 Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Stockholm
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Volotea Seasonal: Brest, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse[10]
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona, Rennes

References

  1. 1 2 LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 Apr 2016.
  2. ↑  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ http://company.brusselsairlines.com/en_be/corp/news/press-releases/Default.aspx
  5. ↑ airline's website
  6. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/02/03/wx-bia-s16/
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/02/12/ew-europe-s16update2/
  8. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/10/ew-vie-s16update1/
  9. ↑ http://www.igavion.fr/
  10. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/245049/update-as-of-22oct14-volotea-planned-new-routes-in-s15/

External links

Media related to Bastia Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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