Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Bordeaux, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Mérignac | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 162 ft / 49 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W [35] | ||||||||||||||
| Website | bordeaux.aeroport.fr [36] | ||||||||||||||
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  Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||||||||||
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Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French: Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) (IATA: BOD, ICAO: LFBD) is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde.
It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe and Northern Africa and serves as a base for Volotea. Transatlantic service is operated on a seasonal basis by Air Transat nonstop to Montreal, Quebec in Canada.
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Bordeaux, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Mérignac | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 162 ft / 49 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W [35] | ||||||||||||||
| Website | bordeaux.aeroport.fr [36] | ||||||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||||||
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |||||||||||||||
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History
KG 40, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during the Occupation of France in World War II.[3]
Terminals
Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:
Terminal A is mainly for international flights [4]
Terminal B passenger air terminal has two levels and is principally dedicated to Air France traffic between Paris and Bordeaux.[5]
Terminal billi is a separate facility for low cost carriers. It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.[6] Users of Terminal billi are easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air from 22 September 2017.[7]
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:[8]
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Oran |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Fez |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| Air Canada Rouge | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| Air France | Marseille, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Athens[9] |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| ASL Airlines France | Seasonal: Oran |
| Blue Air | Seasonal: Bucharest |
| British Airways | London–Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Chalair Aviation | Brest, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes |
| easyJet | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Catania, Faro, Granada,[10] Lanzarote,[11] Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Luxembourg, Lyon, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Nice, Porto,[12] Tel Aviv, Venice Seasonal: Bastia, Belfast–International, Brussels, Essaouira, Glasgow, Hamburg, Heraklion, Ibiza, Liverpool, London–Southend, Menorca,[13] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South (begins 30 October 2019)[14] |
| easyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki[15] |
| Flybe | Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton |
| HOP! | Lille, Lyon, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari |
| Iberia Regional | Madrid |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Lauda | Vienna (begins 29 October 2019)[16] |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba[17] |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Marrakesh |
| Ryanair | Agadir (begins 31 March 2020),[18] Bari, Brest,[19] Budapest (begins 29 October 2019),[20] Bergamo, Bologna, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dublin, Fez, Kraków, Lille, (begins 2 October 2019),[18] Lisbon, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Nador (begins 3 October 2019),[21] Naples, Oujda (begins 27 October 2019),[22] Palermo (begins 29 October 2019),[23] Porto, Prague (begins 3 October 2019),[18] Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Strasbourg (begins 2 October 2019),[18] Tangier, Thessaloniki (begins 29 March 2020),[18] Treviso, Valencia Seasonal: Alicante,[24] Cork, Edinburgh, Faro,[25] Lamezia Terme,[26] Málaga,[27] Mykonos, Ouarzazate |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh |
| Tunisair | Tunis Seasonal: Djerba[17] |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
| Ural Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo[28] |
| Volotea | Ajaccio, Bastia, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Prague, Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Venice Seasonal: Alicante, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Faro, Figari, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Menorca, Munich, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Pula,[29] Santorini, Split |
| Vueling | Barcelona Seasonal: Málaga, Palma de Mallorca |
| Wizz Air | Budapest Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin |
Cargo
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| ASL Airlines France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
| DHL Aviation | Leipzig/Halle, Vitoria |
Access
Road
The airport is accessible by road via the A630 autoroute (exit 11b). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station. Bus route 1+ of Transports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.
Tram
The Bordeaux tramway system is planned to link the airport with the city centre by the end of 2019.[30]
See also
United States Air Force in France