Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport Explained

Perpignan – Rivesaltes Airport
Nativename:Aéroport de Perpignan – Rivesaltes
Image2-Width:250
Iata:PGF
Icao:LFMP
Type:Public
Operator:SPLAR Société Publique Locale Aéroportuaire Régionale
City-Served:Perpignan / Rivesaltes, France
Elevation-F:144
Coordinates:42.7406°N 2.8706°W
Pushpin Map:France Occitanie#France
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Occitanie region
Pushpin Label:LFMP
Pushpin Label Position:right
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:15/33
R1-Length-M:2,500
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R2-Number:13/31
R2-Length-M:1,265
R2-Surface:Asphalt
Stat-Year:2018
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:463,235
Stat2-Header:Passenger traffic change
Stat2-Data: 12.9%
Footnotes:Source: French AIP, Aeroport.fr[1]

Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport (French: link=no|Aéroport de Perpignan – Rivesaltes), also known as Llabanère Airport, as well as Aéroport de Perpignan - Sud de France, is a small international airport near Perpignan and Rivesaltes, both communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales Department in the Occitanie region of south France.

Facilities

The airport is 144feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt runways: 15/33 is 2500mx45mm (8,200feetx148feetm) and 13/31 is 1265mx20mm (4,150feetx70feetm).

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport:[2]

Incidents and accidents

Presidential airplanes

The airport serves as a maintenance facility for several presidential airplanes, including 5A-ONE, an Airbus A340 that flew Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, as well as Boeing 727s of Benin and Mauritania and an Airbus A340 that flies French President Emmanuel Macron.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018. aeroport.fr. 31 August 2019.
  2. http://www.aeroport-perpignan.com/en/schedules.html-0 aeroport-perpignan.com - Schedules
  3. Web site: Gadhafi's private jet is back on the move in southern France. MSN.