Lille Airport
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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 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lille.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in France | |||||||||||||||
  LFQQ Location of Lille Airport
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Sources: Airport, French AIP
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Lille Airport (French: Aéroport de Lille) (IATA: LIL, ICAO: LFQQ) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) 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 Nord-Pas de Calais 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. 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:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens, Burgas, Heraklion |
| Air Algérie | Algiers Seasonal: Constantine, Oran |
| Air Arabia | Seasonal: Oujda |
| Binter Canarias | Gran Canaria |
| easyJet | Bordeaux, Geneva, Nice, Toulouse Seasonal: Alicante (begins 1 May 2024), Palma de Mallorca |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tunis |
| Ryanair | Kraków, Porto Seasonal: Marseille |
| Sky Express | Seasonal: Heraklion |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda |
| Volotea | Ajaccio, Barcelona, Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice, Perpignan, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse, Venice Seasonal: Athens, Calvi, Corfu (begins 21 April 2024), Dubrovnik (begins 24 April 2024), Faro, Figari, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Kalamata (begins 23 April 2024), Lanzarote, Málaga, Marrakesh, Menorca, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (begins 21 April 2024), Split, Tenerife–South, Varna |
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Ground transportation
There is a shuttle bus between the Airport and Lille Flandres railway station.