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 Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department.
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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°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lille.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
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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
editThe following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille Airport:[5]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens,[6] Heraklion[7] |
| Air Algérie | Algiers Seasonal: Constantine, Oran |
| Air Arabia | Seasonal: Oujda[8] |
| Binter Canarias | Gran Canaria[9] |
| easyJet | Bordeaux, Geneva, Nice, Toulouse Seasonal: Alicante,[10] Palma de Mallorca[11] |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tunis |
| Ryanair | Kraków[citation needed], Porto Seasonal: Marseille |
| Sky Express | Seasonal: Heraklion |
| Transavia | Dakar |
| TUI fly Belgium[12] | Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda |
| Volotea | Agadir,[13] Ajaccio, Barcelona,[14] Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice, Perpignan, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[15] Venice[16] Seasonal: Athens, Calvi,[17] Corfu,[18] Dubrovnik,[19] Faro,[14] Figari, Fuerteventura,[20] Heraklion, Kalamata,[21] Lanzarote,[20] Málaga,[14] Marrakesh,[20] Menorca,[14] Olbia,[22] Palermo,[23] Palma de Mallorca,[17] Patras (begins 9 April 2025),[24] Rhodes,[25] Split,[23] Tenerife–South,[20] Varna[17] |
Statistics
editGraphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Annual passenger traffic at LIL airport.
See Wikidata query.
Ground transportation
editThere is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flandres railway station.
References
edit- ^ a b c Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
- ^ a b c LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 November 2024.
- ^ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search retrieved 11 May 2017
- ^ "Aegean becomes twelfth airline to serve Lille Airport". 9 February 2023.
- ^ "AEGEAN AIRLINES ADDS IRAKLEION – LILLE SERVICE IN NS23".
- ^ "AIR ARABIA MAROC NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 05FEB23".
- ^ "Binter Canarias desembarca en Francia e Italia". 8 April 2021.
- ^ "EasyJet operará 11 nuevas rutas gracias a la apertura de la base de operaciones".
- ^ "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Flight plan". tui.be.
- ^ "Volotea NW24 Network Additions – 11AUG24".
- ^ a b c d "Seven new routes from Lille Airport". 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse". 24 March 2021.
- ^ "Dieci anni di Volotea a Venezia e ora nuove rotte: Da ottobre i voli per Nizza e Lille". 5 April 2022.
- ^ a b c "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
- ^ "Volotea : Kalamata, Rhodes et Corfou au départ de Lille en 2024 – Air Journal". 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Destinations Guide". 20 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
- ^ "Volotea: Πτήσεις από Λιλ και Λυών προς Καλαμάτα-Σύνδεση και με Πορτογαλία". 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Volotea apre tre nuove rotte da Olbia per l'estate 2023". December 2022.
- ^ a b "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
- ^ https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/volotea/volotea-expands-in-lille-with-new-greek-route-for-2025/
- ^ "Volotea : Kalamata, Rhodes et Corfou au départ de Lille en 2024 – Air Journal". 16 November 2023.
External links
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Media related to Lille Lesquin International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
