Perpignan airport

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Aéroport Perpignan-Rivesaltes
Rivesaltes - Aéroport - Accueil passagers.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFMP
IATA code PGF
Coordinates

42 ° 44 '27 "  N , 2 ° 52' 11"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 44 '27 "  N , 2 ° 52' 11"  E
Height above MSL 44 m (144  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 5 km northwest of Perpignan
Basic data
surface 200 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 476,696 (2019)
Flight
movements 		4,675 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		700,000
Runways
33/15 2500 m × 45 m asphalt
13/31 1265 m × 25 m asphalt

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The Perpignan Airport ( IATA : PGF , ICAO : LFMP ; double. Aéroport de Perpignan-Rivesaltes ) is a commercial airport at Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales in the south west of France .

Location and transport links

The airport is about 5 kilometers northwest of Perpignan. There is a regular bus service from the airport to the city, and taxis are available at the airport terminal .

history

Aviation at today's airport began as early as 1910 through the Aéroclub du Roussillon .

After the First World War , the Aérodrome de la Llabanère was opened on May 13, 1923. In the 1920s, the airfield was a stage stop for the Aéropostale for flights to North Africa. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War , many refugees arrived here from the summer of 1936 and many journalists left for Spain in the opposite direction.

After the outbreak of World War II , the 114th Squadron of the British Royal Air Force , a Blenheim bomber squadron, was located here from late 1939 to May 1940 . After the occupation of Vichy France by the German Wehrmacht at the end of 1942 , a command of the German Air Force took over the airfield. It immediately became the base of the 2nd Squadron of Jagdgruppe West with Bf 109E / F / G and Fw 190A , which stayed here until February 1943.

In the period from 1945 onwards Perpignan became the starting point for airlines to Algeria and Morocco. With the start of the marketing of the Costa Brava in the 1950s, the airport became a destination for British charter flights.

A new and larger passenger terminal was built between 1963 and July 1965 with a partial opening in April 1964. A few months earlier, in February 1964, the airfield was reclassified as an international airport. At that time it was the fifth largest airport in the country. In 1977 it was renamed Aéroport International Perpignan-Rivesaltes .

After fifty years of operation by the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry , Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Perpignan et des Pyrénées-Orientales, Veolia took over operation of the airport on April 22, 2011.

business

The airport is operated by Veolia and the Département Pyrénées-Orientales and can handle up to 700,000 passengers annually on a total area of ​​1715 m². The runway 15/33 is provided with an instrument landing system of the CAT I equipped and in the direction 15 with a Precision Approach Path Indicator .

Airlines and Destinations

Perpignan has a regular Air France route to Paris-Orly . There are also several connections to European destinations that are mainly served by low-cost airlines , such as Ryanair to London-Stansted .

Incidents

  • On September 11, 1963 a Vickers Viking 1B of Airnautic ( aircraft registration F-BJER ) flew on the way from London-Gatwick to Perpignan airport in the mountain Pic de la Roquette, almost 50 km southwest of the destination airport. All 40 occupants, 4 crew members and 36 passengers were killed as a result of this navigation error. This was the most momentous accident involving a Vickers Viking.
  • On June 3, 1967, a Douglas DC-4 / C-54A of the British Air Ferry (G-APYK) collided with Mont Canigou, around 40 kilometers southwest of the destination airport, on its approach to Perpignan airport. The fully occupied machine came on a charter flight from Manston Airport in the UK . All 88 people on board were killed (5 crew members and 83 passengers). It is a DC-4 accident with the most fatalities. Carbon monoxide poisoning and poor language skills of air traffic control in Perpignan were identified as contributing causes for the pilots' loss of orientation.
  • On November 27, 2008, an Airbus A320-232 crashed into the sea while approaching Perpignan Airport. It was a test flight that was carried out before the aircraft leased from XL Airways Germany (D-AXLA) was supposed to go back to Air New Zealand , the paintwork it had been wearing again for a day. As a cause of the accident has been determined that the pilots in about 3000 (instead of the required 10,000) feet high one low-speed stall ( stall ushered in), the icy angle sensors conflicting data provided and the conversion therefore automatically carried out was not adequately perceived to manual operation and implemented . All seven people on board were killed; two German pilots as well as an examiner and four employees of Air New Zealand (see also XL Airways Germany flight 888T ) .

See also

Web links

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. ^ Accident report Viking 1B F-BJER , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
  3. ^ Accident report DC-4 G-APYK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Maurice J. Wickstead: Airlines of the British Isles since 1919 . Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., Staplefield, W Sussex 2014, ISBN 978-0-85130-456-4 , p. 35.
  5. ↑ Tony Merton Jones: British Independent Airline since 1946, Vol. 1 . Merseyside Aviation Society & LAAS International, Liverpool & Uxbridge 1976, ISBN 0-902420-07-0 , p. 30.
  6. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 100 (English), October 2006, p. 151.