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
Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France
LFQQ is located in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
LFQQ
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 17-18Increase9.1%
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 Airport:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens,[6] Burgas, Heraklion[7]
Air Algérie Algiers
Seasonal: Constantine, Oran
Air Arabia Seasonal: Oujda[8]
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria[9]
easyJet Bordeaux, Geneva, Nice, Toulouse
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca[10]
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Ryanair Kraków, Porto
Seasonal: Marseille
Sky Express Seasonal: Heraklion
TUI fly Belgium[11] Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda
Volotea Ajaccio, Barcelona,[12] Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice, Perpignan, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[13] Venice[14]
Seasonal: Athens, Calvi,[15] Faro,[12] Figari, Fuerteventura,[16] Heraklion, Lanzarote,[16] Málaga,[12] Marrakesh,[16] Menorca,[12] Olbia,[17] Palermo,[18] Palma de Mallorca,[15] Split,[18] Tenerife–South,[16] Varna[15]

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

Ground transportation

There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flandres 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 5 October 2023.
  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. "Aegean becomes twelfth airline to serve Lille Airport". 9 February 2023.
  7. "AEGEAN AIRLINES ADDS IRAKLEION – LILLE SERVICE IN NS23".
  8. "AIR ARABIA MAROC NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 05FEB23".
  9. "Binter Canarias desembarca en Francia e Italia". 8 April 2021.
  10. "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
  11. "Flight plan". tui.be.
  12. "Seven new routes from Lille Airport". 28 April 2022.
  13. "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse". 24 March 2021.
  14. "Dieci anni di Volotea a Venezia e ora nuove rotte: Da ottobre i voli per Nizza e Lille". 5 April 2022.
  15. "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
  16. "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
  17. "Volotea apre tre nuove rotte da Olbia per l'estate 2023". December 2022.
  18. "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.

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