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Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

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
Aéroport Bx Mérignac.JPG
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
Owner/OperatorAéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM)
ServesBordeaux, France
LocationMérignac
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL162 ft / 49 m
Coordinates44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W [35]
Websitebordeaux.aeroport.fr [36]
Map
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Runways
DirectionLengthSurface
mft
05/233,10010,171Asphalt
11/292,4157,923Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers6,799,572
Passenger traffic changeIncrease9.3%
Sources: Statistics[2]

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean AirlinesSeasonal: Athens, Heraklion
Aer LingusDublin
Air AlgérieAlgiers, Oran
Air Arabia MarocFez
airBalticSeasonal: Riga
Air Canada RougeSeasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air FranceMarseille, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Athens[9]
Air TransatSeasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
ASL Airlines FranceSeasonal: Oran
Blue AirSeasonal: Bucharest
British AirwaysLondon–Gatwick
Brussels AirlinesBrussels
Chalair AviationBrest, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes
easyJetAmsterdam, 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 SwitzerlandBasel/Mulhouse, Geneva
FinnairSeasonal: Helsinki[15]
FlybeSeasonal: Birmingham, Southampton
HOP!Lille, Lyon, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Iberia RegionalMadrid
KLMAmsterdam
LaudaVienna (begins 29 October 2019)[16]
LufthansaFrankfurt
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
NouvelairSeasonal: Djerba[17]
Royal Air MarocCasablanca, Marrakesh
RyanairAgadir (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 LinesZürich
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TUI fly BelgiumSeasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh
TunisairTunis
Seasonal: Djerba[17]
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
Ural AirlinesMoscow–Domodedovo[28]
VoloteaAjaccio, 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
VuelingBarcelona
Seasonal: Málaga, Palma de Mallorca
Wizz AirBudapest
Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines FranceParis–Charles de Gaulle
DHL AviationLeipzig/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

References

[1]
Citation Linkmediacentre.easyjet.com"easyJet Media Centre". Mediacentre.easyjet.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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[2]
Citation Linkwww.bordeaux.aeroport.fr(PDF). Societe.Bordeaux.Aeroport.fr https://www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr/sites/default/files/Dossier_de_presse_ADBM_bilan_2018.pdf. Retrieved 10 January 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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[3]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgWood, Tony; Gunston, Bill (1977). Hitler's Luftwaffe. New York: Crescent Books. pp. 64–69&170–171. ISBN 0-517-22477-1.
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[4]
Citation Linkwww.ingerop.fr"Hall A - Bordeaux Mérignac Airport | Ingérop". Ingerop.fr. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
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[5]
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[7]
Citation Linkwww.bordeaux.aeroport.fr"Press release" (PDF). www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr.
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[8]
Citation Linkwww.bordeaux.aeroport.fr"Destinations". Bordeaux-Merignac Airport. 4 April 2019.
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[9]
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[11]
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[14]
Citation Linkwww.routesonline.comLiu, Jim. "easyJet schedules new routes in W19". Routesonline. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
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[15]
Citation Linknews.cision.comFinnair to add three new leisure routes for next summer: Porto, Bologna and Bordeaux news.cision.com 31 October 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
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Citation Linkwww.routesonline.comLiu, Jim. "Laudamotion expands Vienna network in W19". Routesonline. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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[17]
Citation Linkwww.bordeaux.aeroport.fr"Djerba". Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac.
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[18]
Citation Linkwww.aviation24.be"Ryanair opens new Bordeaux base with 37 routes in Summer 2019". aviation24.be. 13 June 2019.
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[19]
Citation Linkwww.bordeaux.aeroport.fr"Brest". Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac.
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[20]
Citation Linktravelfree.info"Ryanair announces winter timetable 2019 with 15 new routes from Budapest Hungary". Travelfree. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
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