Lille Airport
| Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille (Advanced Landing Ground B-51) | |||||||||||||||
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| IATA: LIL – ICAO: LFQQ | |||||||||||||||
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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
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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 | ||
| 1978 | 375,708 | 28,92 % | 1997 | 824,934 | -2,88 % | |||
| 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 (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 Apr 2016.
- ↑ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ↑ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009
- ↑ https://www.amadeus.net/tools/timetables
- ↑ "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/06/v7-s16/
- ↑
- ↑ https://book.xl.com/plnext/XLairways/Override.action
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/01/21/se-lilolb-s16/
External links
Media related to Lille Lesquin International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
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