Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport

Aéroport Metz Nancy Lorraine
Characteristics
ICAO code	LFJL
IATA code	ETZ
Coordinates	48 ° 58 '56 "  N , 6 ° 15' 5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '56 "  N , 6 ° 15' 5"  E.
Height above MSL	265 m (869  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	25 km south of Metz, 35 km north of Nancy
Street	D 910
Basic data
opening	1991
operator	GIGAL (Groupement Interconsulaire de Gestion de l'Aéroport Lorrain)
Passengers	251,759 (2019)
Flight movements	5,126 (2019)
Start-and runway
04/22	3050 m × 45 m asphalt

The Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport (fr. Aéroport Metz Nancy Lorraine ) is the largest airport of Lorraine , located in the territory of the municipalities Goin , Liéhon and Vigny , 25 km south of Metz and 35 km north of Nancy .

The airport's IATA code is ETZ. The ICAO code is LFJL. The Lorraine Region is the owner of Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport. Management was entrusted to the chambers of commerce in Metz and Nancy.

history

Today's airport between the two larger cities in eastern Lorraine was only opened in 1991. It replaced the two smaller airports, each very close to the city, Metz-Frescaty and Nancy-Essey for regular civil air traffic; however, both were still used for flying purposes. However, the history of aviation in the Metz-Nancy area began in German times.

Metz-Frescaty Airport

see main article Metz-Frescaty military airfield

Nancy-Essey Airport

Nancy-Essey Airport (2008)

The first location of an airfield in Nancy was three kilometers northeast of the city in Malzéville . Today's airfield was originally set up as a military airfield . However, the site was judged to be too small by the French armed forces in the 1920s and the new site in the south of Essey-lès-Nancy , three kilometers east of Nancy, opened in 1926. The civil flight operations by the airmail company Air Bleu to Paris Le Bourget and Strasbourg began in the mid-1930s, but this was to remain a short episode. From 1936 a flight school of the Armée de l'air was also located here . Between 1940 and 1944 the German air force used the area, which was repeatedly the target of Allied air raids during these years.

In the decades after the end of the Second World War , the French army aviation aviation légère de l'armée de terre used the space that had no runway suitable for jet flights. Today (2013) there is a brigade here, the 4th Brigade Aéromobile de Nancy , which is subordinate to the 1st combat helicopter regiment in Phalsbourg .

Regular passenger air traffic also began in the 1950s. It was discontinued in 1991 when the new joint airport opened.

Directions

Car: It is around 30 minutes' drive from Metz and 35 minutes from Nancy.

freight

Warehouse on 3600 m², the main freight customer is DHL France.

See also

• List of airports in France

Web links

• Website of the Aéroport Metz Nancy Lorraine

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 May 27, 2020 (French).