Ajaccio airport

Aéroport d'Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte
Characteristics
ICAO code	LFKJ
IATA code	AJA
Coordinates	41 ° 55 '25 "  N , 8 ° 48' 10"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 55 '25 "  N , 8 ° 48' 10"  E
Height above MSL	5 m (16  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	5 km east of Ajaccio
Basic data
opening	1940
surface	306 ha
Terminals	1
Passengers	1,507,488 (2019)
Air freight	5,429 t (2019)
Flight movements	13,226 (2019)
Runways
02/20	2407 m × 45 m asphalt
28/10	asphalt

The Aéroport d'Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte ( IATA code AJA , ICAO code LFKJ , also Campo dell'Oro ) is an international airport near Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica . With around one million passengers annually, it is the eleventh largest airport in France and serves as the home base of Air Corsica .

history

During the Second World War, there was only one grass runway on the Gravona River , from which insignificant flights took off. The first scheduled air traffic from Ajaccio to Marseille took place in 1935 with flying boats from the port. From 1940 the airport was used for military purposes. At the end of the Second World War he got an asphalt track . This was also the beginning of civil air traffic in Ajaccio.

Location and transport links

The airport is about five kilometers east of Ajaccio , which can be reached by a regular bus service.

Furnishing

A maximum of 1,500,000 passengers can be handled annually on an area of ​​17,000 m². The total area of ​​the airport area is 306 hectares. JET A1 and AVGAS can be refueled at the airport.

The runways have PAPI , VASI in direction 02 and 20 and an ILS CAT II in direction 02 .

Airlines and Destinations

Air France and its subsidiaries Air Corsica, Brit Air and Régional connect Ajaccio to several destinations within France, including Paris-Orly Airport and Marseille , all year round . Barcelona and Geneva are also served seasonally as well as other airlines London , Amsterdam , Basel , Brussels , Luxembourg and Olbia . Medium and long haul flights are currently not offered.

Incidents

• On December 1, 1981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81 with the aircraft registration YU-ANA flew on the way from Ljubljana to Ajaccio Airport in Corsica when approaching the summit of San Pietro. All 173 passengers and seven crew members died during this controlled flight into terrain of the Inex Adria.

See also

• List of airports in France

Web links

Commons : Ajaccio Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Aéroport d'Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French). 
2. ^ Accident report DC-9-81 YU-ANA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.