Lille Airport Explained

Lille Airport
Iata:LIL
Icao:LFQQ
Type:Public
Operator:Socièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
City-Served:Lille, France
Location:Lesquin, France
Elevation-F:157
Elevation-M:48
Website:lille.aeroport.fr
Coordinates:50.5633°N 3.0869°W
Pushpin Map:France Nord-Pas-de-Calais#France
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Lille Airport
Pushpin Label:LFQQ
Pushpin Label Position:left
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:08/26
R1-Length-M:2,825
R1-Length-F:9,268
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:02/20
R2-Length-M:1,580
R2-Length-F:5,184
R2-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2018
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:2,078,549
Stat2-Header:Passenger Change 17-18
Stat2-Data:9.1%
Footnotes:Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP

Lille Airport (French: link=no|Aéroport de Lille) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7km (04miles) south-southeast of Lille, 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.

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.[2] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille Airport:[3]

Ground transportation

There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flandres railway station.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lille.aeroport.fr/gb/aeroport/ Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille)
  2. http://www.aeroport.fr/fichiers/stats_2009.pdf Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009
  3. http://www.lille.aeroport.fr/flight-and-airline-info/search-for-a-flight/ lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search