Lille airport

Aéroport de Lille;
Characteristics
ICAO code	LFQQ
IATA code	LIL
Coordinates	50 ° 33 '42 " N , 3 ° 5' 22" E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '42 " N , 3 ° 5' 22" E
Height above MSL	48 m (157 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	7 km south of Lille
Street	D 655 ,
Basic data
opening	1937
operator	Société de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
surface	450 ha
Terminals	3
Passengers	2,188,910 (2019)
Air freight	117 t (2019)
Flight ; movements	21,868 (2019)
Capacity ; ( PAX per year)	300,000
Runways
01/19	1580 m × 30 m asphalt
08/26	2825 m × 45 m asphalt

The Aéroport de Lille supplies the northern French city of Lille and is located on the territory of the French communes of Lesquin and Fretin in the Nord department . It is designed as a passenger airport for up to three million passengers. In 2007 the airport handled 1,052,000 passengers; 68,500 t of freight were handled in the cargo area of the airport on an area of 13,000 m². It is open around the clock.

history

The airfield south of Lesquin and Vendeville was opened in 1937 as the Seclin-Enchemont military airfield and was occupied by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) after the outbreak of World War II , which stationed two hurricane squadrons, the 85th and 87th Squadron , and the expanded what she called Lille-Seclin Airfield .

After the German Wehrmacht took the area at the end of May 1940 , the Vendeville airfield became the location of the Luftwaffe , which also referred to it as Lille-Süd . In the second half of June 1940, the staff and 2nd group of Lehrgeschwader 1 (S. and II./LG 1), which were equipped with Ju 88A , were the first unit stationed here.

In the following time the airfield was massively expanded. The area was tripled and the first two paved concrete runways with the dimensions 1,600 × 50 meters were built. The only user during this period was from July 1940 to May 1941 the 1st squadron of the reconnaissance group 122 (1st (F) / Aufkl.Gr. 122).

It was not until two years later that the Luftwaffe stationed task forces in Vendeville again, initially in mid-August 1943 for a week in the V. Group of Kampfgeschwaders 2 (V./KG 2) equipped with Me 410A .

Subsequently, Lille-south was base of the interceptors JG 3 (JG 3) and 26 (JG 26). The Bf 109G of the 11th squadron of JG 26 (11./JG 26) lay here from September to November 1943 and the I. Group of JG 3 (I./JG 3) between October 1943 and January 1944. The last one lying here Between the beginning of April and the beginning of the Allied invasion of Normandy at the beginning of June 1944, the Air Force Association was the I. Group of JG 26 (I./JG 26)), which meanwhile used the Fw 190A .

After the liberation of the area, the airfield was used again by the RAF, which now referred to it as Airfield B.51 . In September / October 1944, a Typhoon IB squadron , the 146th Wing , was stationed here. The 193rd , 197th , 257th , 263rd and 266th Squadron were subordinate to him .

Alternating mosquito squadrons were then stationed here . Between October 1944 and April 1945 the 264th , 409th ( RCAF ) were located here at times . , 410th (RCAF) and 604th Squadron .

The airfield was opened for civil aviation in 1947 and a first passenger terminal was inaugurated in 1963. The local Chamber of Commerce and Industry took over civil flight operations in 1969 and an air freight terminal was added in 1972. The new terminal with a capacity of 1.5 million passengers a year was opened in 1996 and in July 2016 runway 02/20 was renamed 01/19 due to the migration of the magnetic north pole.

Technology at the airport

JET A1 AVGAS can be refueled at the airport.

An instrument landing system (ILS) is available for runways 08/26.

Flight connections

The airport is served by Aigle Azur (1970) , Air Algérie , Air France , EasyJet , Hop! , Jetairfly , Ryanair , Transavia Airlines , Tunisair , Volotea and Vueling . More than 70 national and international destinations are served.

Transport links

There is a regular shuttle bus service from the airport to Lille, twelve kilometers to the north, with a journey time of 20 minutes. Taxis are also available at the airport terminal.

Web links

Commons : Lille Lesquin International Airport - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 27, 2020 (French).
^ Airport website , accessed October 14, 2013.

Main Terminal Lille Airport

[statistik-1] Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 27, 2020 (French).

[2] Airport website , accessed October 14, 2013.