Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport
Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport
Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Aéroports de Lyon | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lyon, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Colombier-Saugnieu | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | Aigle Azur Air France EasyJet HOP! Transavia France Twin Jet | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 821 ft / 250 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E [37] | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lyonaeroports.com [38] | ||||||||||||||
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 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France | |||||||||||||||
  LFLL Location of airport in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. | |||||||||||||||
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Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (French: Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), is the international airport of Lyon, the third-biggest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) southeast of Lyon's city centre.[1]
Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Aéroports de Lyon | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lyon, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Colombier-Saugnieu | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | Aigle Azur Air France EasyJet HOP! Transavia France Twin Jet | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 821 ft / 250 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E [37] | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lyonaeroports.com [38] | ||||||||||||||
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France | |||||||||||||||
LFLL Location of airport in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. | |||||||||||||||
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History
Early years
Terminal building
Departure gate area
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 is now only used for general aviation.
In 1994 the LGV Rhône-Alpes high-speed rail line brought TGV service to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy of the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature.
Since 1997, the airport has been a focus city for the airline Air France.
Development since the 2000s
The airport was originally named Lyon Satolas Airport, but in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on the centenary of his birth. He was a native of Lyon, and a laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, and died in World War II.
In 2013, the airport served 8,562,298 passengers, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year. Air freight increased by 22.7% to 44,820 tonnes, although overall aircraft movements dropped by 2.8% to 113,420.[2]
Facilities
The airport consists of passenger terminals 1 and 2 which are interconnected on the landside by a central building that itself has a foot-bridge to the nearby Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry long-distance station and the Rhônexpress terminus.[3] The airport also features two runways as well as cargo facilities. A total of 16,000 car spaces in four car parks (P2-P5) are available. Two of the parks are underground (P2 and P3) while the long-stay parks (P4 and P5) are located at a distance from the terminals behind the railway station.[3]
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 consists of two parts: The older one is a two-storey, slightly curved brick shape building contains the check-in areas 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 as well as departure areas G and F on the upper level with the arrivals on the ground level.[3] In 2014, Aéroports De Lyon started the construction of a new terminal expansion, which doubled the capacity and the area, with 70,000 m².[4] Four groups took part in the tender process to design and develop the expanded Terminal 1. The bid was won by the GFC Construction company in partnership with Quille Construction (Bouygues) and Bouygues Energies & Services. The architectural practice was Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners led by Graham Stirk, Chabanne and Partners, engineers Technip TPS and Cap Ingélec, and Inddigo.[5] The expanded Terminal 1 has been opened in June 2018. It has a circular shape with check-in area 10 and additional arrivals facilities on the ground level and departure gates B and C on both upper levels.[3] It is also connected by an underground tunnel to a small satellite building containing the D gates now mainly used by easyJet and Transavia France while the other areas serve Star Alliance carriers and Emirates amongst others.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is a duplicate of the older part of Terminal 1, containing check-in 20 and 21 with boarding areas Q and P on the upper and arrivals facilities on the lower level. This terminal area is mainly used by Air France.[3]
Terminal 3 (defunct)
The former Terminal 3 was a very basic facility used by low-cost carriers. It has been demolished in the process of the Terminal 1 expansion.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion, Kalamata, Rhodes |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Béjaïa, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Sétif, Tlemcen |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Casablanca, Fez, Tangier[6] |
| Air Canada | Montréal–Trudeau |
| Aircompany Armenia | Yerevan[7] |
| Air Corsica | Ajaccio, Bastia Seasonal: Calvi, Figari |
| Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Paris–Orly |
| Air Malta | Seasonal: Malta |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| ASL Airlines France | **Charter:**Heraklion, Kerkyra, Olbia, Palermo, Porto, Santorini, Split[8] |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| Blue Air | Bucharest |
| BRA Braathens Regional Airlines | Gothenburg |
| British Airways | London–Heathrow Seasonal: London–Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Chalair Aviation | Limoges Seasonal: Bergerac[9] |
| Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Split |
| easyJet | Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Brest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Kraków, Lanzarote (begins 13 December 2019),[10] Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Madrid, Marrakech, Nantes, Naples, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Tangier (begins 28 October 2019),[11] Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Venice, Vienna Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Belfast–International, Biarritz, Bristol, Chania,[12] Corfu,[13] Catania, Dubrovnik, Essaouira, Figari, Ibiza, London–Stansted, Manchester, Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rennes, Split, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Emirates | Dubai–International |
| Eurowings | Düsseldorf |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki[14] |
| Flybe | Manchester |
| HOP! | Biarritz, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brest, Brussels, Caen, La Rochelle, Lille, Lorient, Marseille, Metz/Nancy, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Nuremberg, Paris–Orly, Pau, Poitiers, Prague, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Venice Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Brive,[15] Calvi, Figari,[16] Florence |
| Iberia Express | Madrid |
| Iberia Regional | Madrid |
| Jet2.com | Seasonal: London–Stansted, Manchester |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Montenegro Airlines | Seasonal: Podgorica |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir,[17] Tunis |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Marrakech |
| Smartwings | Seasonal: Fuerteventura,[18] Funchal,[18] Gran Canaria,[18] Palermo,[18] Prague,[19] Rhodes,[20] Tenerife–South[18] Seasonal charter: Heraklion, La Palma, Lanzarote, Olbia, Shannon[21] |
| SunExpress | Seasonal: Antalya,[22] Izmir[23] |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| Transavia France | Agadir, Algiers, Beirut, Casablanca,[24] Funchal, Lisbon, Marrakesh, Monastir, Oujda, Porto, Tel Aviv, Tunis Seasonal: Athens, Catania,[25] Djerba, Faro, Heraklion, Málaga, Palermo, Seville |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Agadir, Marrakech[26] Seasonal charter: Burgas,[27] Djerba[28] Heraklion, Ibiza, Kerkyra, Kos, Menorca, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Podgorica[28] Rhodes, Tenerife South |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Tozeur,[29] Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul[30] |
| Twin Jet | Stuttgart, Zürich |
| Volotea | Seasonal: Alicante, Cagliari,[31] Dubrovnik,[32] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Prague, Split, Valencia |
| Vueling | Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Málaga, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca, Seville |
| Wizz Air | Cluj-Napoca, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal: Belgrade |
Cargo
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Algérie Cargo | Algiers, Oran |
| ASL Airlines Belgium | Liège, Tunis |
| ASL Airlines France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
| DHL Aviation | Leipzig/Halle |
| Emirates SkyCargo | Dubai–Al Maktoum |
| FedEx Express | Marseille, Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
| UPS Airlines | Cologne/Bonn, Toulouse |
Ground transportation
Rail
The Rhônexpress tramway began operations in August 2010 and links Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu east of Lyon's city centre with Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry next to the airport in approximately 30 minutes[33][34] using and sharing existing tracks of the Lyon tramway as well as a newly constructed route. This tramway replaced the former coach shuttle services (Satobus) that operated beforehand leaving the airport with no other public connections to the city centre.
The Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry station is also served by the LGV Rhône-Alpes high speed rail line.
Coach
Electric car service
The airport has an electric car sharing station. Bolloré Bluecar vehicles are available for rent.
See also
Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport (Argentina)
List of the busiest airports in France