Brest Bretagne Airport (French: Aéroport de Brest Bretagne) (IATA: BES, ICAO: LFRB), formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an international airport serving Brest, France. It is located in the commune of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère.[1]
Brest Bretagne Airport Aéroport de Brest Bretagne | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Chamber of Commerce | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Brest, France | ||||||||||||||
Location | Guipavas | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 325 ft / 99 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°26′50″N 004°25′18″W / 48.44722°N 4.42167°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Location of the Brittany region within France | |||||||||||||||
LFRB Location of airport in the Brittany region | |||||||||||||||
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Though the main operator is Air France (and subsidiary HOP!), serving for the most part Paris, other scheduled services are offered elsewhere in France and to the United Kingdom. The aggressive efforts the Chamber of Commerce conducted allowed the airport to grow dramatically over the past decade thanks to charter airlines, as can be seen below.
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Brest Bretagne Airport:
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Heraklion[3][4] |
Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin[5] |
Air France | Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Biarritz |
Chalair Aviation | Bordeaux Seasonal: Kerry,[6] Pau[7] |
Finist'air | Bordeaux, Ushant Seasonal: Belle-Île,[8][9] Jersey, Vannes[8][9] |
Transavia | Marrakesh,[10] Marseille, Toulon Seasonal: Porto[11] |
Volotea | Málaga,[12] Marseille,[13] Montpellier, Nice, Rome-Fiumicino[14] Seasonal: Ajaccio, Athens,[15] Barcelona,[16] Bastia, Faro, Figari, Menorca,[17] Olbia,[18] Palermo,[19] Palma de Mallorca |
Year | Passengers | Change |
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1997 | 614,023 | |
1998 | 661,523 | 7.7% |
1999 | 719,014 | 8.7% |
2000 | 748,060 | 4.0% |
2001 | 719,774 | 3.8% |
2002 | 739,843 | 2.8% |
2003 | 704,237 | 4.8% |
2004 | 700,170 | 0.6% |
2005 | 775,079 | 10.7% |
2006 | 817,456 | 5.5% |
2007 | 850,433 | 4.0% |
2008 | 874,747 | 2.9% |
2009 | 881,500 | 0.8% |
2010 | 919,404 | 4.8% |
2011 | 990,927 | 7.8% |
2012 | 1,070,461 | 8.0% |
2013 | 1,003,836 | 6.2% |
2014 | 998,393 | 0.5% |
2015 | 1,000,192 | 0.2% |
2017 | 1,046,581 | 3.5% |
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