Montpellier airport

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Aéroport Montpellier Méditerranée
Montpellier-Mediterranee de.svg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFMT
IATA code MPL
Coordinates

43 ° 34 '34 "  N , 3 ° 57' 47"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 34 '34 "  N , 3 ° 57' 47"  E
Height above MSL 5 m (16  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km southeast of Montpellier
Street A9 motorway
Basic data
opening 1946
operator CCI de Montpellier
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,935,911 (2019)
Air freight 6,266 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		18,515 (2019)
Runways
13R / 31L 1100 m × 30 m asphalt
13L / 31R 2600 m × 50 m asphalt

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The Montpellier Airport (fr. Aéroport International de Montpellier Méditerranée ) is the airport of the southern French city of Montpellier . It is the ninth largest airport in France in terms of passenger numbers with 1.225 million passengers in 2009 and is located around twelve kilometers southeast of the city.

history

The first aircraft landed at Fréjorgues airfield in 1938 and the airfield was used by the German air force during the war .

After the occupation of Vichy France by the German Wehrmacht , the airport became the base for Ju 88A bombers in November 1942 . Until the end of March 1943, Montpellier was initially the base of the IV. Group of Kampfgeschwader 77 (IV./KG 77). As a result, the III. Group of Kampfgeschwader 26 (III./KG 26) and between June and August 1944 the staff of this squadron (S./KG 26)

The first civil terminal of the then Aéroport de Fréjorgues was opened in 1946 and in 1990 more than 1 million passengers were counted for the first time. Four years later, Fréjorgues Airport was renamed Aéroport Montpellier-Méditerranée and after another four years it handled 1.5 million passengers a year. After a phase of decline in passengers after September 11, 2001 and financial problems for the airlines operating in Montpellier at the time, the airport experienced another boom in the second decade of the 21st century and was also on Lufthansa’s flight schedule for the first time in 2012 .

Airlines and Destinations

airline Direct connection from / to
Air Algérie Seasonal : Algiers , Oran
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca , Fez , Nador
Air France Paris - Charles de Gaulle and Orly , Rome - Fiumicino
Alitalia Rome Fiumicino
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Easyjet London - Gatwick and Luton , Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal : Basel-Mulhouse , London - Gatwick and Luton , Berlin-Tegel
Germanwings Dusseldorf
Hop! Lille , Lyon , Nantes , Strasbourg
Lufthansa Frankfurt am Main
Seasonal: Munich
Norwegian Seasonal : Copenhagen
Ryanair Charleroi , Hahn , Leeds
Transavia Seasonal : Rotterdam
Volotea Brest , Lille , Munich , Nantes , Strasbourg , Seasonal : Ajaccio , Bastia

Transport links

Montpellier Airport is on the A9 motorway and can be reached via exit n ° 29 Montpellier-Est .

A shuttle bus (line 120) shuttles between the airport, Sud de France train station ( TGV only ) and Place de l'Europe (Europaplatz), where there is a connection to line 1 of the Montpellier tram from / to the city center.

See also

Web links

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 27, 2020 (French).