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.
Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille | |||||||||||||||
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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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Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France | |||||||||||||||
LFQQ Location of Lille Airport | |||||||||||||||
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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.
The 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] 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: Alicante (begins 1 May 2024),[10] Palma de Mallorca[11] |
Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tunis |
Ryanair | Kraków, Porto Seasonal: Marseille |
Sky Express | Seasonal: Heraklion |
TUI fly Belgium[12] | Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda |
Volotea | Ajaccio, Barcelona,[13] Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice, Perpignan, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[14] Venice[15] Seasonal: Athens, Calvi,[16] Corfu (begins 21 April 2024),[17] Dubrovnik (begins 24 April 2024),[18] Faro,[13] Figari, Fuerteventura,[19] Heraklion, Kalamata (begins 23 April 2024),[20] Lanzarote,[19] Málaga,[13] Marrakesh,[19] Menorca,[13] Olbia,[21] Palermo,[22] Palma de Mallorca,[16] Rhodes (begins 21 April 2024),[23] Split,[22] Tenerife–South,[19] Varna[16] |
There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flandres railway station.
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