Saint-Exupéry International Airport

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Saint-Exupéry International Airport Aéroport Lyon Saint-Exupéry

IATA: LYS – ICAO: LFLL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Location		Lyon, France
Elevation AMSL		821 ft / 250 m
Coordinates		45°43′35″N 5°05′27″E / 45.72639, 5.09083
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
18R/36L	13,124	4,000	Asphalt
18L/36R	8,760	2,670	Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Passengers			7,320,952
Freight (tons)			36,900

Saint-Exupéry International Airport (French: Aéroport Lyon Saint-Exupéry) (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is an airport located near Lyon, France. The airport is named after the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a native of Lyon.

It lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, 12 miles (20km) to the east of Lyon. Its two runways are aligned north-south. It is an important transport facility for the entire Rhône-Alpes region. Coach links connect the airport with the centre of Lyon and other towns in the area including Chambéry and Grenoble.

The airport was inaugurated by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on 12 April 1975 and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the old Lyon Bron airport which could not be extended as it laid in an urban area.

In 1994 a high-speed rail link brought the TGV to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy above the station, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature (Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry).

In 2000 the airport was renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

In 2007, the airport served 7,320,952 passengers^[1], which makes it France's fourth busiest airport after Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Nice airports.

Aerial view of Lyon Airport

1 Airlines and destinations
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Terminal 1

Aer Lingus (Dublin)
Aigle Azur (Algiers, Chlef, Constantine, Oran, Setif)
Air Algérie (Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Constantine, Oran, Setif)
Air Austral (Reunion)
Airlinair (Poitiers)
Air Malta (Luqa)
Air Senegal International (Dakar)
Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
Blue Air (Bucharest-Băneasa)
bmi (Manchester)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna) [seasonal]
City Airline (Gothenburg-Landvetter)
Corsairfly (St. Denis/Reunion)
Croatia Airlines (Split)
Hex'Air (Rodez)
Iberia Airlines
- operated by Air Nostrum (Madrid)
Lufthansa
- operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Oslo)
TAP Portugal
- operated by Portugália (Lisbon)
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Twin Jet (Angouleme)

[edit] Terminal 2

Air France (Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Tunis, Zurich)
- operated by Airlinair (Limoges, Marseilles, Montpellier)
- operated by Brit Air (Barcelona, Birmigham, Brest, Caen, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Le Havre, Madrid, Montpellier, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Stuttgart)
- operated by CCM Airlines (Ajaccio, Bastia)
- operated by Régional (Basel-Mulhouse, Biarritz, Bologna, Brussels, Clermont-Ferrand, Hamburg, Lorient, Marseilles, Metz-Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Pau, Venice)
Atlas Blue (Marrakesh)
Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK) [begins 18 July]
Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
Air Algerie (Bejaia)
- operated by Saga Airlines

[edit] Terminal 3

easyJet (Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Biarritz [starts 7 June], Bordeaux, Casablanca, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech, Oporto, Rome-Ciampino, Toulouse, Venice)