Carcassonne Airport Explained

Carcassonne Airport
Iata:CCF
Icao:LFMK
Type:Public
Operator:Transdev
City-Served:Carcassonne, France
Elevation-F:434
Website:Carcassonne Airport
Coordinates:43.2158°N 2.3086°W
Pushpin Map:France Occitanie#France
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Occitanie region
Pushpin Label:LFMK
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:09/27
R1-Length-M:2,050
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:09L/27R
R2-Length-M:800
R2-Surface:Grass
Stat-Year:2014
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:413,724
Stat2-Header:Passenger change 13-14
Stat2-Data:4.4%
Footnotes:Sources: French AIP, UAF,[1] DAFIF[2]

Carcassonne Airport (French: link=no|Aéroport de Carcassonne,) serves Carcassonne and southern Languedoc and is in the Aude department of the Occitanie region in France. It is 3km (02miles) west of the city and is also known as Salvaza Airport, Carcassonne Salvaza Airport or Carcassonne Airport in Pays Cathare (Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare). The airport handles commercial national and international flights as well as private, non-regular air traffic.

Air service history

In 1993, according to the Official Airline Guide (OAG) Carcassonne was served by Aigle Azur airlines with nonstop service to Paris Orly Airport operated with Saab 340 regional turboprop airliners.[3] During the late 1990s, the airport was being served with budget flights to and from European airports, and by 2006 had regular flight connections with Dublin, London Stansted, Liverpool, East Midlands and Charleroi.[4] In 2011, the airport served 368,000 passengers.

Atlas Atlantique Airlines operated from the airport briefly to Oran in Algeria from 2016 to 2017; however, the airline ceased operations in late November 2017.

Ryanair is the only airline currently operating scheduled passenger service into the airport. It operates Boeing 737-800 jetliners on all of its flights.

Facilities

The airport sits at an elevation of 434feet above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated, which measures 2050mx45mm (6,730feetx148feetm). It also has a parallel unpaved runway with a grass surface measuring 800mx30mm (2,600feetx100feetm). It can cater to aircraft operating under VFR.

Inside the terminal building there are two departure gates. A small shop is land-side in the terminal.

A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile is also at the airport.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Carcassonne Airport:

Ground transportation

There is a shuttle bus service from the airport to the centre of Carcassonne and Carcassonne Station, which runs to coincide with the arrivals of flights.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Aéroport de Carcassonne en Pays Cathare at Union des Aéroports Français
  2. from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  3. Oct. 1, 1993 OAG Desktop Flight Guide
  4. Web site: Laverock . Iain . 10 International airports with cheap flights to South France . 2022-09-25 . Go South France . en-gb.