Toulouse-Blagnac airport

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Aéroport Toulouse-Blagnac
Aeroport Toulouse Blagnac.svg
TOULOUSE-AEROPORT.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LFBO
IATA code TLS
Coordinates

43 ° 37 '45 "  N , 1 ° 21' 50"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 37 '45 "  N , 1 ° 21' 50"  E
Height above MSL 152 m (499  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 8 km northwest of Toulouse
Street A 620 and A 621
Local transport Bus route 66 from the République metro station, bus route 30 from Fenouillet, to the Lagardère airport part by tram T1 from metro station Arènes or bus route 30; from the Gare Routière bus station right next to the Toulouse-Matabiau train station with Courriers de la Garonne (every 20 minutes).
Basic data
opening 1939
operator since March 27, 2007 Aéroport Toulouse Blagnac public limited company, capital EUR 148,000
surface 780 ha
Terminals 1 with 4 halls (A, B, C and D)
Passengers 9,642,925 (2019)
Air freight 65,261 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		99,711 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		6.2 million passengers
Runways
14R / 32L 3500 m × 75 m asphalt
14L / 32R 3000 m × 60 m asphalt

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Inside view of the terminal
View of the apron with the passenger boarding bridge

The Toulouse-Blagnac Airport ( IATA TLS ; ICAO LFBO ; . Double Aéroport Toulouse-Blagnac ) is the international passenger airport of the southern French city Toulouse . With 9.64 million passengers in 2019, it is the fifth largest airport in the country and also serves as a works airport for Airbus and ATR , which operate production sites on the airport premises - for example, the Airbus A380 is manufactured here.

Location and transport links

The airport is located in Blagnac , eight kilometers northwest of Toulouse in southern France.

  • By car: The airport can be reached in 10 to 20 minutes from the city center in the direction of Bordeaux via the A 620 and A 621 - depending on the time of day. A total of 7,000 parking spaces are available to passengers in a short-term parking lot, three long-term parking spaces and a multi-storey car park (including over 90 disabled parking spaces). All parking spaces are open 24/7 and a free shuttle bus connects the most distant long-term parking spaces with the airport every six minutes.
  • By bus / tram: The bus (line 66) from Tisséo (Toulouse public transport company) leaves the city center (St. Cyprien district) from the République metro station, with stops on the entire route every 10 to 20 minutes during the day directly to the terminal building of the airport and back (journey time maximum 31 minutes, normal line tariff). The T1 tram line connects the Lagardère airport (Airbus) with the city center (Arènes stop, which is also the metro station) every 10 to 30 minutes (travel time 31 minutes, normal line rate). Another bus line (No. 30) connects the airport u. a. Via Lagardère (Airbus), Beauzelle and Gagnac sur Garonne with Fenouillet every 20 minutes (maximum travel time 41 minutes, regular fare). The Courriers de la Garonne ( Navette Aéroport ) shuttle bus runs every 20 minutes from the Gare Routière bus station and from the Jean Jaurès , Jeanne d'Arc and Compans Caffarelli stops in the city center to the airport and back (extra tariff). From the airport there is also a bus to Andorra twice a day and to Luchon once a week .

history

Toulouse airport is shaped by historical moments in aviation, for example the first flights of the supersonic Concorde passenger aircraft and the largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 , took off here .

Around 1890, Clément Ader was already building several motorized aircraft in Muret, 25 kilometers south of Toulouse ; From 1913, the city made an area available on which the Toulouse public could admire the latest aircraft . Shortly afterwards, the Aérospatiale settled in the Montaudran district . The air freight company Latécoère followed in 1917 and hired a young pilot named Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in late 1926 . Toulouse became his home airport with famous routes such as Toulouse - Casablanca and Toulouse - Dakar. The Chamber of Commerce actively supported all aviation projects and was commissioned in 1928 to coordinate the construction of the future international transport airport in Blagnac .

Second World War

In 1939, the French Air Force opened a repair shop and two runways, each 800 meters long, were built near Blagnac . After the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , the place became home to a Luftwaffe fighter pilot school and the main runway was extended to 1,700 meters during the war.

Between April and December 1943, the 1st squadron of Jagdgruppe Ost , with Bf 109F / G and Fw 190A , was located here , and the 3rd squadron of the same unit next to it until August. Subsequently, between the beginning of November 1943 and the beginning of March 1944, Blagnac was stationed in November / December 1943, with an interruption of several weeks, of the II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 100 (II./KG 100), with only two of the three squadrons returning in December. The group was equipped with the Do 217E in Toulouse . The I./KG 40 was also here between June and July 1944 .

After 1945

Civil air traffic with handling in wooden barracks began in 1945 (1945: 9,000 passengers).

In 1953 the airport building Blagnac 1 was opened with a capacity of 400,000 passengers per year. The runways were modernized in 1964-68 and extended to 3000 and 3500 m respectively, especially for the test flights of the Concorde (first flight in 1969).

The airport building Blagnac 2 (800 m northwest) was opened in April 1978, and a hall was added in 1993, 2004 and 2010. A new control tower was added in 1993 and a parking garage in 2002.

All partners of the airport company have been committed to quality , safety and environmental protection in a development program since 2005 . Among other things, an ecological drainage system has been put into operation.

The fourth hall (D) of the airport went into operation on March 10, 2010. Additional parking spaces, a sewage treatment plant and additional aircraft parking positions are also under construction. The 40,000 m² expansion will increase Toulouse Blagnac's capacity from six to nine million passengers by 2015. The expansion should guarantee better security and adapt the flexibility and services of the airport to its role as a hub.

In 2012 Air France opened a hub at Toulouse Airport and has since offered several new routes from Toulouse.

In the course of a partial privatization, the Sino-Canadian consortium "Symbiose" acquired 49.9% of the state's 60% stake in April 2015 for 308 million euros, which translates into 29.9%. To this end, the partners, the Friedman Pacific AM investment fund and the Shandong Hi-Speed ​​Group, founded Casil Europe, a company under French law. The shares of the four local bodies involved (IHK, region, department, city), together 40%, were not affected by this transaction.

Infrastructure

Runways

The airport is open 24/7. The airport has two parallel runways that are equipped with a Category III instrument landing system, with HI, BI and PAPI (optical approach system) lights .

Terminal building

The current terminal capacity can handle up to 6.2 million passengers annually. The terminal, which is open around the clock, has a total of 30 boarding gates in Halls A – D , ten of which are equipped with passenger boarding bridges . There are also 56 check-in counters and five baggage claim belts.

On the ground floor there is the area for arriving passengers with a separate driveway, baggage claim halls with passport and customs control as well as snack stands, cafes, exchange offices , banks, internet access, ATMs and car rental companies. The departure halls with sales counters , check-in counters , snack stands, bars, restaurants, access to the terrace restaurant, shops, baby changing rooms, travel agencies , exchange offices, ATMs , etc. are located on the first floor . There are also other shops, duty-free sales and security checks in the passenger area. In addition to the visitor restaurant with a capacity of around 200 guests, the second floor also houses the salons, offices, a chapel and the Red Cross. There, the architect Marc Raymond used the panoramic view of the apron and the runways to create the permanent interactive exhibition hall Aéroplace .

Airlines and Destinations

Toulouse has numerous connections to national and European destinations, including Brest , Lille , Marseille , Nantes , Paris-Charles de Gaulle , Strasbourg , Amsterdam , Dublin , London , Madrid and Rome . The airport is directly from the German speaking Lufthansa and Euro Wings from Frankfurt and Munich , on EasyJet from Berlin and Basel , by Ryanair from Berlin-Schoenefeld , of British Airways from Bremen and Sun-Air of Scandinavia from Friedrichshafen served.

Incidents

  • On June 30, 1950, a Sud-Est SE.2010 Armagnac ( aircraft registration F-WAVA ) of the manufacturer SNCASE had an accident while taking off from Toulouse-Blagnac airport. Part of the wing nose had come loose and led to the accident. The machine caught fire and was destroyed. Of the eleven inmates, two were killed, as well as one person on the ground.
  • On January 29, 1988, the Vickers Vanguard 953C with the aircraft registration F-GEJF of Inter Cargo Service crashed next to the runway immediately after taking off. For the cargo flight to Paris-Orly , engine no. 4 (far right) was idling because it had previously been very hot. There was a loss of control and the aircraft was destroyed. All 3 crew members survived.
  • On June 30, 1994 the first accident of an Airbus A330 occurred when a test aircraft of the type A330-321 ( F-WWKH , MSN: 42) used by Airbus during take-off at Toulouse-Blagnac airport due to a pilot's error in the simulation of an engine failure fell into a nearby wooded area. All seven inmates were killed. In memory of the occupants and the crew, this Airbus was symbolically buried next to the Airbus factory Clément Ader. The crash site can be visited as a memorial (see also Airbus-Industrie-Flight 129 ) .

Others

In addition to the smaller Blagnac consist Aerodrome Toulouse-Lasbordes east of the city and just outside in the southwest Muret-Lherm . The latter is the scene of a major flight day every year in early summer in memory of the Muret-born aviation pioneer Clément Ader (see also: Airexpo ). Both airports are used exclusively by general aviation .

Toulouse-Montaudran airport

The Aérodrome de Montaudran in the south of the city was the first commercial airport in Toulouse. It is closely associated with the Aéropostale and the name Latecoère . This aviation pioneer, who came from the southern Pyrenees, set up an airmail connection to Dakar in West Africa after the First World War , a route that Aéropostale and German Lufthansa extended to South America in the 1920s.

With the opening of Blagnacs, Montaudran lost its importance. The Breguet company used it for flight tests until the 1970s, and Air France Industries for maintenance tasks until it was closed at the end of 2003.

Toulouse-Francazal Airport

The Aéroport de Francazal is located in the southwest of the city. It has existed under its current name since 2012. The airport is operated by a company in which, in addition to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, SNC Lavalin has a significant stake. Part of the area of ​​the former military airfield of the Armée de l'Air , which called it Base aérienne 101 Toulouse-Francazal (BA 101), is still used by the Armée de terre .

See also

Web links

Commons : Toulouse Blagnac International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 June 7, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) , accessed on September 5, 2014
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nur-flug-tours.de
  4. ↑ accident report SE.2010 Armagnac F-WAVA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 11 December 2018th
  5. ^ Accident report Vanguard F-GEJF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Accident report A330 F-WWKH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 8, 2020.