Marseille airport

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Aéroport Marseille Provence
Airport of Marseille Provence.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LFML
IATA code MRS
Coordinates

43 ° 26 '8 "  N , 5 ° 12' 49"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 26 '8 "  N , 5 ° 12' 49"  E
Height above MSL 23 m (75  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 20 km northwest of Marseille
Street A7 A55 D 20
Local transport Regional buses ,
shuttle bus to Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille Provence train station
Basic data
opening October 22, 1922
operator Aéroport Marseille Provence SA
surface 646 ha
Terminals 2
Passengers 10,148,207 (2019)
Air freight 61,114 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		109,894 (2019)
Employees 5,500 (2014)
Runways
13R / 31L 2370 m × 45 m asphalt
13L / 31R 3500 m × 45 m asphalt



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The Marseille Airport ( IATA code MRS , ICAO code LFML , French Aéroport Marseille Provence , brand AMP ) is the international airport of the French city of Marseille . In terms of passenger volume , it was fifth among French airports in 2019 after Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle , Paris-Orly , Nice and Lyon . After Paris, it is the world's best airport with the Maghreb and Corsica.

Location and transport links

The airport is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department (serial number 13), 20 kilometers northwest of Marseille in the area of ​​the municipalities of Saint-Victoret , Vitrolles and Marignane at the Étang de Berre , which is why it is simply called "Marignane" on site. When approaching the runways in operating direction 31, the chain of hills Chaîne de l'Estaque is flown over at a relatively low altitude shortly before landing.

Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille Provence train station

train

The nearest train station is Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille Provence , about 1.2 km away. A free shuttle bus between the terminal and the train station enables connection to the TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur network .

bus

From Marseille-Saint-Charles main train station (connections every 20 minutes from the bus station integrated in the train station), as well as from Aix-en-Provence (usually every 30 minutes). There are 200 bus connections daily to a total of 75 locations.

Street

Coming from Marseille on the A7 or A55 motorway , from Aix-en-Provence on the D9 .

history

The airport was inaugurated on October 22, 1922 after plans to build the airport near what is now the Prado city beach failed early. During the Second World War , the airport was almost completely destroyed by German bombs in 1944 and only reopened in 1961.

Before that, after the occupation of Vichy France by the German Wehrmacht at the end of 1942, it became an airfield of the German Air Force . For air defense, for example, the first squadron of the Jagdgruppe Süd, equipped with Bf 109F / G , was located here between mid-March 1943 and mid-June 1944 , briefly reinforced by the fourth squadron in early June. This returned in September and this time stayed in Marseille until May 1944, which later also flew the Fw 190 . In May / June 1944 the first squadron of Jagdgruppe West was added.

Between 1963 and 2017 hosted Marignane today in Nîmes -based Base d'avions de la Sécurité Civile of civil protection, in particular on the French fire-fighting planes were stationed.

A comprehensive modernization was completed in 1996. After the opening of the nearby TGV route LGV Méditerranée from Marseille to Valence in 2001, which connects Marseille with Paris in three hours , there was a drop in passenger numbers in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . In September 2006 the new MP² terminal opened for low-cost airlines .

Operators and handling companies

Between 1934 and May 14, 2014, the regional Chamber of Commerce Chambre de commerce et d'industrie (CCI) Marseille Provence operated the airport, until the newly founded joint-stock company Aéroport Marseille Provence SA took over operations. In the 2014 financial year, the operating company generated an annual profit of EUR 8.878 million with a turnover of EUR 128.9 million , in 2015 with a turnover of EUR 130.2 million a profit of EUR 8.6 million and employs 370 people.

Aviapartner , among others, is represented as the handling company .

Airlines and Destinations

Aerial view

35 airlines serve more than 100 destinations in 25 countries from Marseille. These include numerous intra-French connections ( mainland, Corsica and La Réunion ).

Ryanair selected the airport as the first base in France in 2006 .

There are currently direct flight connections from German-speaking countries with Lufthansa from its two hubs in Frankfurt and Munich , with Eurowings from Düsseldorf , with EasyJet from Berlin-Schönefeld and Geneva and with Volotea from Vienna .

Incidents

  • On February 6, 1989, an Inter Cargo Service Vanguard 952F (registration number F-GEJE ) crashed into the sea immediately after taking off from Marseille-Marignane airport. All 3 crew members were killed. Royal Air Maroc had leased the aircraft from Inter Cargo Service for a cargo flight to Paris-Orly. The cause of the accident was a broken or loose timing chain in the drive of the left aileron.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Statistics on the website of the Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, p. 15. (PDF; 2.3 MB) May 2020, accessed on 19 May 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Report Annuel 2014 (PDF, 36 MB, French), accessed on August 27, 2015
  3. ↑ Arrêté du 14 May 2014 authorizing the transfer de la concession de l'aérodrome de Marseille-Provence à la société Aéroport Marseille-Provence. legifrance.gouv.fr, accessed 29 August 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Report Annuel 2015 (PDF; 2.11 MB, French), accessed on June 29, 2017
  5. ↑ Données Clés (French), accessed on 29 June 2017th
  6. ↑ accident report AAC.1 / Ju 52 F-BBYL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2017th
  7. ↑ accident report Vanguard F-Geje , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 19 August 2017th