Lille Airport

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.

Lille Airport

Aéroport de Lille
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSocièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
ServesLille, France
LocationLesquin, France
Elevation AMSL157 ft / 48 m
Coordinates50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E
Websitelille.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 (2018)
Passengers2,078,549
Passenger Change 17-189.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

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 cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Algérie Algiers, Constantine, Oran
Air France Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse
Seasonal: Calvi[6]
Binter Canarias Seasonal: Gran Canaria[7]
easyJet Bordeaux, Geneva, Nantes,[8] Nice, Toulouse
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca[9]
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba
Ryanair Kraków, Marseille, Porto
Sky Express Seasonal: Heraklion
Smartwings Seasonal: Faro,[10] Heraklion,[10] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South,[10] Varna[11]
Transavia Seasonal: Marseille,[12] Montpellier[13]
TUI fly Belgium[14] Seasonal: Agadir, Athens, Béjaïa, Casablanca, Faro, Fès, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda, Rhodes, Tangier, Tenerife–South, Tlemcen
Twin Jet Brest, Strasbourg
Volotea Nice, Toulouse,[15] Venice (begins 21 October 2022)[16]
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Athens (begins 12 July 2022), Bastia, Bordeaux, Cagliari (begins 2 June 2022),[17] Calvi (begins 4 June 2022),[18] Figari, Heraklion (begins 16 July 2022), Montpellier, Nantes,[19] Palermo (begins 27 May 2022),[20] Palma de Mallorca (begins 30 May 2022),[21] Perpignan, Split (begins 8 May 2022),[22] Varna (begins 17 May 2022)[23]

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at LIL airport. See source Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flanders railway station.

References
  1. Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
  2. LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 21 April 2022.
  3. Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search retrieved 11 May 2017
  6. Liu, Jim. "Air France S20 Short-Haul Network additions as of 28JAN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  7. "Binter Canarias desembarca en Francia e Italia". 8 April 2021.
  8. "EasyJet plans additional French routes in S17".
  9. "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
  10. "Smartwings adds various French routes in S17".
  11. "Smartwings adds Lille – Varna service from June 2019".
  12. "Grèce, France : Transavia muscle son programme".
  13. https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/book-a-flight/flights/search/
  14. "Flight plan". tui.be.
  15. "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse".
  16. https://nordesteconomia.gelocal.it/imprese/2022/04/05/news/dieci-anni-di-volotea-a-venezia-e-ora-nuove-rotte-da-ottobre-i-voli-per-nizza-e-lille-1.41353291
  17. "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA".
  18. "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
  19. "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse".
  20. "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
  21. "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
  22. "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
  23. "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.

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