Strasbourg Airport (French: Aéroport de Strasbourg; German: Straßburg Flughafen; Alsatian: D'r Strossburi(g) Flughàfa) (IATA: SXB, ICAO: LFST) is a minor international airport located in Entzheim and 10 km (6.2 miles) west-southwest of Strasbourg,[1] both communes of the Bas-Rhin département in the Alsace région of France. In 2018 the airport served 1,297,177 passengers.[3]
Strasbourg Airport Aéroport de Strasbourg | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Serves | Strasbourg, France | ||||||||||
Location | Entzheim | ||||||||||
Opened | February 1923 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 505 ft / 154 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°32′31″N 07°38′04″E / 48.54194°N 7.63444°E | ||||||||||
Website | strasbourg | ||||||||||
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LFST Airport in France | |||||||||||
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There was a decline in traffic after Ryanair suspended service in 2004 after a court declared that the airline had received illegal subsidies from the airport.[4]
After the opening of the first phase of the new LGV Est high-speed rail line from Paris to Strasbourg, there was a significant[5] reduction in plane usage, but since 2011, traffic at the airport has grown. However, Air France ceased to operate the route between Strasbourg and Paris-Charles de Gaulle on 2 April 2013, transferring passengers onto rail services operated as tgvair.[6] The opening of the second phase of the LGV Est in July 2016 further reduced travel time to Paris to 1:48 by train.[7]
The airport consists of a single two-storey passenger terminal building. The ground floor features the check-in areas as well as the arrivals facilities with three baggage claim belts. The upper floor contains the international and domestic departure lounges and gates.[8] The terminal is equipped with four gates that have jet-bridges as well as some walk-boarding stands.
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Strasbourg Airport:
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Athens |
Air Arabia | Fès, Nador |
Air France | Lyon |
Amelia International[9] | Amsterdam[10] |
ASL Airlines France | Seasonal: Oujda[11] |
Iberia | Madrid |
LOT Polish Airlines | Frankfurt, Warsaw–Chopin[12] |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
Nouvelair | Tunis Seasonal: Djerba[13] |
Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
Ryanair | Agadir,[14] Porto |
TAROM | Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni[15] |
Tassili Airlines | Algiers, Constantine, Oran |
Tunisair | Tunis |
Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
Twin Jet | Marseille[16] |
Volotea | Berlin,[17] Bordeaux, London–Gatwick,[18] Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Rome–Fiumicino,[19] Toulouse Seasonal: Ajaccio, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Biarritz, Calvi (begins 1 June 2024),[20] Corfu, Faro,[21] Figari, Gran Canaria,[22] Lanzarote, Málaga (begins 20 April 2024),[23] Marrakesh,[24] Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Split (begins 26 June 2024)[25] |
The airport is served by the Entzheim-Aéroport train station, on the line from Strasbourg to Molsheim.[26] The trip to Gare de Strasbourg takes 7 to 12 minutes.
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