Nantes airport

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Aéroport de Nantes Atlantique
Nantes Airport Logo.svg
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Characteristics
ICAO code LFRS
IATA code NDE
Coordinates

47 ° 9 '25 "  N , 1 ° 36' 28"  W Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '25 "  N , 1 ° 36' 28"  W.

Height above MSL 27 m (89  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km southwest of Nantes
Basic data
surface 340 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 7,225,390 (2019)
Air freight 8,789 t (2019)
Flight
movements
63,187 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year)
3.5 million
Start-and runway
03/21 2900 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Nantes Atlantique airport is located in the small town of Bouguenais in the French department of Loire-Atlantique , about ten kilometers southwest of the city of Nantes . The airport is operated by the IHK Nantes. In 1997, Nantes Atlantique Airport was the first airport in Europe with a quality certificate ( ISO 9001 ). Since then, the certification has been constantly renewed and expanded. It is open around the clock.

history

The airport goes back to a military airfield opened in 1928.

The German Air Force occupied it during World War II .

The following table shows a list of selected active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Wehrmacht Air Force that were stationed here between 1940 and 1944.

From To unit equipment
December 1940 July 1941 Staff, I./KG 28 (Staff and I. Group of Kampfgeschwaders 28) Heinkel He 111
November 1941 April 1942 III./KG 55 Heinkel He 111H-6
May 1942 May 1942 III./KG 77 Junkers Ju 88A-4
August 1942 August 1942 13./KG 40 (13th squadron of Kampfgeschwader 40)

Later, between mid-May and July 1944, the Ju 290A of the 4th squadron of long-range reconnaissance group 5 (4./FAGr. 5) flew from Nantes. In addition, the Ju 88C from Stab, I. and II. Groups of Destroyer Wing 1 (S., I. and II./ZG 1) lay here for a few days in mid-June 1944 .

The airport has been used for civil and commercial purposes since 1951. In 1988 the annual number of passengers reached 1 million, in 2018 it was about 6.2 million.

Technology at the airport

JET A1 and AVGAS can be refueled at the airport .

history

The number of passengers rose steadily from 1993 to 2019:

  • 1993: 1.001.351
  • 1994: 1,124,569
  • 1995: 1,240,000
  • 1996: 1,398,000
  • 1997: 1,452,000
  • 1998: 1,663,000
  • 1999: 1,840,796
  • 2005: 2,154,400
  • 2006: 2,423,700
  • 2007: 2,596,580
  • 2008: 2,731,563
  • 2009: 2,650,593
  • 2010: 3,031,556
  • 2011: 3,246,226
  • 2012: 3,631,693
  • 2013: 3,930,849
  • 2014: 4,147,284
  • 2015: 4,393,000
  • 2016: 4,778,000
  • 2017: 5,489,087
  • 2018: 6,199,181
  • 2019: 7.225.390

In order to take into account the increased passenger numbers and the importance of the airport for the region, the new construction project Projet d'aéroport du Grand Ouest was planned 20 km northwest of Nantes . In January 2018 it was announced that the plans for a new building would not be pursued after protests.

Airlines and Destinations

airline Direct connection from / to
Aegean Athens , Rhodes , Corfu , Heraklion ,

Seasonal: Kalamata .

Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin .
Air Corsica Ajaccio , Bastia .
Air France Paris - Charles de Gaulle , Orly , Nice , Marseille , Düsseldorf .
Air Transat Seasonal: Montreal .
British Airways Seasonal: London - Heathrow .
Brussels Airlines Brussels - Brussels-Zaventem .
Chalair Aviation Bordeaux , Pau .
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Istanbul - Sabiha Gökçen , Ercan .
Easyjet London - Gatwick , Luton , Basel-Mulhouse , Lisbon , Bristol , Liverpool , Nice , Lyon , Toulouse , Milan , Porto , Geneva , Lille , Tel Aviv , Tangier , Bilbao , Granada , Copenhagen , Berlin , Rome , Catania , Bari , Dubrovnik , Ibiza , Bastia .
Europe Airpost Seasonal: Ajaccio , Palermo , Porto .
Flybe Manchester , Southampton , Birmingham .
Hop! Lille , Lyon , Milan , Toulouse , Düsseldorf , Strasbourg , Amsterdam , Calvi , Figari , Montpellier , Perpignan , Hamburg .
Iberia Madrid .
Iberia Express Madrid .
Jetairfly Seasonal: Marrakech , Agadir , Casablanca .
KLM Amsterdam .
Lufthansa Munich .
Luxair Luxembourg .
Nouvelair Seasonal: Tunis , Djerba , Monastir .
Onur Air Seasonal: Antalya .
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca , Marrakech , Agadir .
Ryanair Marseille , Dublin , Fez , Edinburgh , London , Seville , Naples , Manchester , East Midlands , Valencia , Valletta .
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca , Marrakech , Agadir .
TAP Portugal Lisbon .
Tassili Airlines Algiers .
Transavia Berlin , Lisbon , Algiers , Antalya , Djerba , Faro , Athens , Heraklion , Marrakech , Funchal , Valletta , Monastir , Porto , Catania , Rome , Palma , Seville , Venice , Santorini , Rome , Tel Aviv , Geneva , Istanbul , Budapest , Oran , Algiers , Tunis .
Tunisair Tunis , Monastir , Djerba .
Volotea Ajaccio , Bastia , Figari , Calvi , Montpellier , Grenoble , Strasbourg , Toulouse , Lille , Perpignan , Alicante , Madrid , Corfu , Faro , Dubrovnik , Fuerteventura , Mykonos , Las Palmas , Ibiza , Pisa , Málaga , Munich , Naples , Olbia , Palma de Mallorca , Palermo , Prague , Vienna , Split , Menorca , Santorin , Tenerife , Venice , Valencia , Tangier .
Vueling Airlines Valencia , Alicante , Barcelona , Málaga , Palma de Mallorca , Rome , Tenerife , Seville , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria .
XL Airways France Seasonal: Punta Cana , Fort de France

Transport links

There is a regular bus service from the airport to Nantes . Taxis are also available at the airport terminal.

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).
  2. Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands). , Pp. 263–265 , accessed September 5, 2014.
  3. as / dpa: Notres-Dame-des Landes: Macron's government stops construction of a controversial major airport. The environmentalists have prevailed: the French government abandons the project for a major airport near Nantes. In: Spiegel Online. January 17, 2018, accessed January 17, 2018 .