Lyon-Bron airport

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Lyon-Bron airport
Lyon Airport Logo.svg
Aérodrome Lyon-Bron.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LFLY
IATA code LYN
Coordinates

45 ° 43 '46 "  N , 4 ° 56' 20"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 43 '46 "  N , 4 ° 56' 20"  E
Height above MSL 201 m (659  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km east of Lyon
Basic data
opening 1907
operator Aéroports de Lyon
Passengers 12,190 (2019)
Flight
movements 		4,072 (2019)
Start-and runway
16/34 1820 m × 45 m asphalt



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The Lyon-Bron airport ( Aéroport de Lyon-Bron ) is an airport in France , which is located about ten kilometers east of the city center of Lyon , between the towns of Chassieu and Saint-Priest . It is Lyon's older and smaller airport. The airport was named after the city of Bron .

history

Parking south

From 1907 there were first flight movements on a field between the road to Genas in the south and a former secondary railway line leading eastwards from Lyon to Saint-Génix , on the parcel of La Poudrette . In May 1910, the "Great Flight Week of Lyon" took place here, with 100,000 spectators.

The success of this international air show soon convinced the mayor of Lyon, the prefecture of the Rhône department and the military governor that the poorly productive fields between Route nationale 6 to Grenoble in the south, Rue Saint-Jean in the north and Fort de Bron in West could be used for an airfield. In November 1910, the École Lyonnaise was opened as a national civil aviation school on this site , for which two, later four, wooden halls with double doors were built.

When the French army began to take an interest in aviation in 1912, officers and NCOs were separated at the Bron school. In 1913 some balloonists and mechanics from Versailles , Privas and Epinal settled here and were accommodated in the fort.

During the First World War 1914-1918, Bron became an airfield for testing prototypes for the army. The manufacturers withdrawn from Paris developed the early aviation industry here. In December 1915, the aviation pioneer Gaston Caudron was killed on a test flight with a twin-engine airplane.

Control tower from Parking Nord
Hangar No. 6

On February 24, 1920 , the Ministry of Aviation ordered the acquisition of adjacent land in Chassieu for the purpose of creating an airfield. In the summer of 1924 , the Swiss airline Aéro-Lausanne organized a scheduled flight service on the Lyon - Geneva - Lausanne route . On May 25, 1926 , the Paris –Lyon– Marseille airline was opened. In 1927 , the annual output of Bron Airport was already 2,294 passengers, 13 tons of mail and 2 tons of mail. In 1929, the Geneva – Lyon – Clermont – Bordeaux line went into operation.

On December 14, 1930 , a terminal building (aérogare) was inaugurated with great pomp and commissioned on February 8, 1932. It becomes a destination for the people of Lyon. The terminal housed an international press office, souvenir shops, restaurant, buffet restaurant, bar, post office and tourist office. In the interwar period, the airport developed in cooperation with other airlines. In 1935 there were direct connections from Lyon-Bron to Aix- Chambéry , Clermont-Ferrand (as a stopover for Bordeaux), Dijon, Geneva (stopover for Switzerland and Germany), Marseille (stopover for North Africa), Nice, Paris (stopover for England, Belgium, the Netherlands and transfers) and Perpignan (stopover for Algeria).

During the Second World War, Bron Airport was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1944. Between August 17 and 23, 1944, 109 Jewish people were executed who were evacuated from Montluc prison on the orders of Klaus Barbie . From November 1944 to March 1945, the Allied armies carried out bombing raids on Germany with Martin B-26 fighter planes from Lyon-Bron.

In 1947, Lyon-Bron was linked by direct connections with Algiers, Clermont-Ferrand, Geneva, Marseille, Nice, Orange, Paris-Le Bourget, Perpignan and Vichy.

Airport 1952–1980

On July 6, 1952, the test pilot Maryse Bastié was killed as a passenger in the crash of a Noratlas after an air show at Lyon-Bron airport. From 1957 the civil airport terminal was completely rebuilt. Important buildings were inaugurated in 1959 (still visible today behind the Castorama market). The runway was extended on the south side in the early 1960s, which led to the relocation of Route Nationale RN6 to the south for about one kilometer.

In 1960 Lyon-Bron was linked by direct links with:

Intense aerial activity towards North Africa began in the post-war period. In 1964, Bron airport operations resulted in 6383 departures and 6370 arrivals, as well as 117,769 departing passengers and 127,127 arriving passengers. In the same year, two huge covered walkways were built to connect the terminals to the aircraft and to increase handling capacity. A small part of these corridors is still visible behind today's Castorama market, which serves as a covered parking lot.

In 1966 the first regular long-haul connections were opened. In 1969 the terminal was expanded to the east and a new control tower was built. In 1972 the number of passengers from Lyon-Bron exceeded the million mark. In 1973 a line between Lyon and Cairo was opened with Air France.

In 1974 there were direct connections with:

  • National: Ajaccio, Angers, Bastia, Bordeaux, Clermont, Lille, Limoges, Marseille, Metz, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Rennes, Paris-Le Bourget, Paris-Orly, Poitiers, Reims, La Rochelle, Rouen, St. Etienne, Strasbourg, Toulon, Toulouse and Tours
  • International: Abidjan, Algiers, Athens, Basel, Barcelona, ​​Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Constantine, Cotonou, Dakar, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Oran, Palma, Rabat, Tangier, Tunis, Zagreb and Zurich.

Between 1924 and 1981 various airlines were represented in Lyon-Bron, such as: Aer Lingus, Aéro-Lausanne, Aigle Azur, Air Afrique, Air Algérie, Air Alpes, Air Bleu, Air Champagne Ardennes, Air France, Air Inter, Air Orient, Air Union, Ala Littoria, Alitalia, Balair, BEA, British Eagle, CMA Air-Lines, Iberia, Lufthansa, Royal Air Maroc, Sabena, Saturn Airways, TAI, TAT, Tunisair, UTA ...

The decision to build a new airport was made in the late 1960s to compensate for the gradual saturation of Lyon-Bron airport. In 1975, on the night of April 19-20, all airport activities were relocated from Lyon-Bron Airport to Lyon-Satolas Airport (today: Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport). The terminal area was gradually transferred to private companies. In 1977 the runway was shortened by almost one kilometer and the grass runway west of Hangar 6 was closed. In 1981 the last regular lines left Bron and moved to Lyon-Satolas. Since 1987, Lyon-Bron Airport has been home to the Pan Européenne Air Service airline , whose headquarters are located at Chambéry-Savoie Airport . In 1988 the buildings from 1932 were demolished.

Today's operation

Lyon-Bron Airport is now the third largest business airport in France, after Paris Le Bourget Airport and Cannes-Mandelieu Airport . An area of ​​140 hectares is reserved for the General Aviation Terminal . There is also an important heliport .

In 2009, then airport director Éric Dumas declared that Lyon-Bron should develop into a leading business airport in Europe. After the general overhaul of the main Lyon-Saint Exupery airport has been completed, Bron Airport will also be modernized and new high-quality services for corporate and airline customers will be offered. The goal is to exceed 10,000 aircraft movements per year in 2012. In 2010 a panorama restaurant was opened, the hangar SAMU 69, which houses a helicopter base and emergency teams. Hangar H8, which was inaugurated at the end of 2009 and has a capacity of 3000 m², now houses business jets and related activities. On June 25, 2012 a new fire station was inaugurated.

Every year around 11,000 passengers are counted at Lyon-Bron Airport.

Incidents

  • On December 1, 1948, a Halifax C.VIII of the TAI ( aircraft registration F-BCJS ) crashed while taking off in thick fog from Lyon-Bron airport about 1200 meters behind the end of the runway at Beauregard in the Décines district. The machine was on a commercial flight to Casablanca-Anfa Airport . Of the eight occupants, three of the passengers were killed, the other two and the three-man crew injured. The aircraft registered with Société Aero Cargo was destroyed.
  • On August 12, 1963, a Vickers Viscount 708 of Air Inter (F-BGNV ) coming from Lille collided with trees during a thunderstorm while approaching Lyon-Bron Airport. The plane struck a farmhouse 15 miles north of the destination airport and eventually crashed into a field. Of the 16 occupants, 15 were killed, as well as one person on the ground, only one passenger survived.

Trivia

The airport is the location of the 1973 film The Watchmaker of St. Paul by Bertrand Tavernier .

Web links

Commons : Lyon-Bron airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on June 7, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Le 6 June 1952 dans le ciel: Maryse Bastié se tue au meeting de Lyon. (No longer available online.) Air Journal, formerly the original ; accessed on May 23, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.air-journal.en  
  3. ↑ Official website of the airport ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyonaeroports.com
  4. ^ CCI Lyon, Agir et entreprendre No. 23, Sept / Oct 2009
  5. ↑ Air-Britain Aviation World (English), September 2016, p. 109.
  6. ↑ accident report Halifax F-BCJS , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on 19 August 2017th
  7. ↑ Accident report Viscount 708 F-BGNV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 2, 2019.