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Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac
Aeroport de Bordeaux logo.svg
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport - Aug 30, 2020.jpg
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
Owner/OperatorAéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM)
ServesBordeaux
LocationMérignac, Gironde, France
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL162 ft / 49 m
Coordinates44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W / 44.82833°N 0.71556°W / 44.82833; -0.71556
Websitebordeaux.aeroport.fr
Map
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,100 10,171 Asphalt
11/29 2,415 7,923 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers7,703,143
Passenger traffic changeIncrease 13.3%
Sources: Statistics[2]

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French: Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) (IATA: BOD, ICAO: LFBD) is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde. It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe and Northern Africa and serves as a base for easyJet, Ryanair and Volotea airlines.[3]

History

KG 40, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during the Occupation of France in World War II.[4]

Terminals

Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:

  • Terminal A is mainly for international flights[5]
  • Terminal B passenger air terminal has two levels and is principally dedicated to Air France traffic between Paris and Bordeaux.[6]
  • Terminal billi is a separate facility for low cost carriers. It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.[7] Users of Terminal billi are easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air.[8]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:[9]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion
Aer Lingus Dublin
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca, Fez
Air France Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air France Hop Seasonal: Ajaccio, Calvi, Figari
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
British Airways London–Gatwick[10]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[11]
Chalair Aviation Brest
Corsair International Seasonal: Pointe-à-Pitre
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Copenhagen (begins 10 November 2022),[12][better source needed] Faro, Geneva, Lanzarote,[13] Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Nice, Porto,[14] Tenerife–South
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Belfast–International, Berlin, Bristol, Catania, Essaouira, Figari,[15] Glasgow, Heraklion, Ibiza, Menorca,[16] Olbia,[15] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Iberia Regional Madrid
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[17]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Oslo[18]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca, Marrakesh
Ryanair Agadir, Barcelona,[19] Bergamo, Birmingham,[19] Charleroi, Dublin, Faro, Fez, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Madrid,[19] Málaga, Malta,[19] Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Porto, Prague, Rome–Ciampino,[20] Santiago de Compostela,[19] Seville, Tangier, Treviso, Valencia
Seasonal: Alghero,[19] Alicante, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi,[19] Cork,[21] Edinburgh, Figari,[22] Fuerteventura, Ibiza,[19] Kraków, Menorca,[19] Mykonos, Naples, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa,[19] Tenerife–South,[23] Trapani,[19] Zadar[19]
Swiss International Air Lines[24] Zürich
Transavia Seasonal: Eindhoven (resumes 30 March 2023)[25]
TUI fly Belgium[26] Casablanca
Tunisair[27] Tunis
Turkish Airlines[28] Istanbul
Volotea Algiers,[29] Lille,[30] Málaga, Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Venice
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Athens,[31] Bastia, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Figari, Florence,[32] Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Split
Vueling[33] Barcelona
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca

Statistics

Former control tower in 1964
Control tower


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Access

Road

The airport is accessible by road via the A630 autoroute (exit 11b). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station. Bus route 1+ of Transports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.

Tram

The Bordeaux tramway system does not yet reach the airport, but an extension to Line A is expected to link the airport with the city centre by 2022.[34][35]

See also

References

  1. ^ "easyJet Media Centre". Mediacentre.easyjet.com. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Bilan 2019, une année record pour le trafic international".
  3. ^ "BOD Airlines Bases". Bordeaux.Aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  4. ^ Wood, Tony; Gunston, Bill (1977). Hitler's Luftwaffe. New York: Crescent Books. pp. 64–69&170–171. ISBN 0-517-22477-1.
  5. ^ "Hall A - Bordeaux Mérignac Airport | Ingérop". Ingerop.fr. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Réalisations". ADPI. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Terminal billi Bordeaux illico | Bordeaux-Merignac Airport". Bordeaux.aeroport.fr. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Press release" (PDF). www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  9. ^ "All flights from Bordeaux". Bordeaux-Merignac Airport. 3 September 2022.
  10. ^ "British Airways Announces Routes and Starts Selling Seats for ITS New Gatwick Short-Haul Subsidiary".
  11. ^ https://www.brusselsairlines.com/en-fr/destinations/
  12. ^ https://www.easyjet.com/en[bare URL]
  13. ^ "Lanzarote (Arrecife)". Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac.
  14. ^ "Porto". Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac.
  15. ^ a b "Du nouveau avec easyJet : 4 destinations supplémentaires - Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac".
  16. ^ "Mahon (Minorque)". Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac.
  17. ^ "Luxair: Official Site – Book Direct Flights to 90+ Destinations from 89€".
  18. ^ https://www.norwegian.com/en//[bare URL]
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Ryanair announces biggest schedule ever for Bordeaux". 2 March 2022.
  20. ^ https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en[bare URL]
  21. ^ "Welcome Home to Cork this Christmas - Ryanair to Restore Cork Airport Base and Twenty Routes".
  22. ^ "Ryanair Launches Two New Domestic French Routes from Bordeaux and Toulouse to Corsica (Figari) This Summer | Ryanair's Corporate Website".
  23. ^ "Rayanir website". Ryanair.com.
  24. ^ swiss.com - Flights to Bordeaux retrieved 3 September 2022
  25. ^ "Transavia verbindt Eindhoven met Bordeaux" [Transavia connects Eindhoven to Bordeaux]. nieuws.eindhovenairport.nl (in Dutch). 21 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  26. ^ tuiflybe.com - Bordeaux retrieved 3 September 2022
  27. ^ tunisair.com - Schedule retrieved 3 September 2022
  28. ^ turkishairlines.com - Flights to Bordeaux retrieved 3 September 2022
  29. ^ "VOLOTEA - Destinations". 3 April 2022.
  30. ^ "Aéroport de Lille : Volotea ouvre une ligne vers Bordeaux le 17 décembre | la Gazette Nord-Pas de Calais".
  31. ^ "Volotea announces three new routes from greece to France".
  32. ^ "Volotea torna a Firenze, destinazione Bordeaux. Da Pisa per Olbia e Nantes". 9 February 2022.
  33. ^ vueling.com - Flights from Bordeaux retrieved 3 September 2022
  34. ^ "Bordeaux Airport - Tram connection confirmed". Bordeaux Expats. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  35. ^ Yves Maugue (29 April 2016). "Bordeaux : voici le tracé du tramway qui va desservir l'aéroport" (in French). Retrieved 20 July 2016.

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