Lille Airport

Lille Airport^[1] (French: Aéroport de Lille^[1]) (IATA: LIL^[3], ICAO: LFQQ^[2]) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille,^[2] 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 Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department. The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille.^{[clarification needed]}

Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille
IATA: LIL ICAO: LFQQ
Summary
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
Map
LFQQ Location of Lille Airport Show map of Nord-Pas-de-Calais LFQQ LFQQ (France) Show map of France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt 02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 2,078,549 Passenger change 17-18 9.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

It is the 12th busiest French airport by number of passengers: around 970,000 in 2001 and 1,397,637 in 2012.^[4] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.^{[citation needed]}

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille Airport:^[5]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens,[6] Heraklion[7]
Air Algérie	Algiers Seasonal: Constantine,[citation needed] Oran[citation needed]
Air Arabia	Seasonal: Oujda[8][better source needed]
Air Montenegro	Seasonal: Podgorica[9]
ASL Airlines France	Algiers Seasonal: Toulon[10]
EasyJet	Bordeaux,[11] Geneva,[11] Nice[11] Seasonal: Alicante,[12] Palma de Mallorca[13]
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba,[citation needed] Monastir,[citation needed] Tunis[citation needed]
Ryanair	Fès,[14] Porto[11] Seasonal: Marseille[11]
Sky Express	Seasonal: Heraklion[citation needed]
Transavia	Dakar[15]
TUI fly Belgium[16]	Seasonal: Agadir,[citation needed] Casablanca,[citation needed] Marrakesh,[citation needed] Nador,[citation needed] Oujda[citation needed]
Volotea	Agadir,[17] Ajaccio,[18] Barcelona,[19] Bastia,[18] Bordeaux,[20] Montpellier,[18] Nice,[18] Perpignan,[18] Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[21] Venice[22] Seasonal: Athens,[18] Calvi,[23] Comiso,[24] Corfu,[25] Dubrovnik,[18] Faro,[18][19] Figari,[18] Fuerteventura,[26] Heraklion,[18] Kalamata[27][better source needed], Lanzarote,[26] Málaga,[18][19] Marrakesh,[26] Menorca,[18][19] Olbia,[28] Palermo,[18][29] Palma de Mallorca,[18][23] Patras,[30] Rhodes,[18][25] Rodez,[31] Split,[18][29] Tenerife–South,[26] Varna[18][23]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at LIL airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

There is a shuttle bus between the airport and Lille Flandres railway station.