Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport
Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Summary | |||||||||||||||
Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | S.A Aéroport de Montpellier Méditerranée | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Montpellier | ||||||||||||||
Location | Mauguio, France | ||||||||||||||
Focus city for | |||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 17 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°34′35″N 003°57′47″E / 43.57639°N 3.96306°ECoordinates: 43°34′35″N 003°57′47″E / 43.57639°N 3.96306°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | montpellier.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
Maps | |||||||||||||||
![]() Location of Occitanie region in France | |||||||||||||||
Location of airport in Occitanie region | |||||||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Statistics (2019) | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport or Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée (IATA: MPL, ICAO: LFMT), also known as Fréjorgues Airport, is an airport in southern France. It is located 7 km (4 nautical miles) east-southeast of Montpellier[1] in Mauguio, in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region in France. The airport opened in 1946, 8 years after the first flight to the area.[3]
The airport carries the 10th largest number of passengers in France (over 1.18 million in 2010). A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is also located at the airport.
Facilities
The airport is at an elevation of 17 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 13L/31R is 2,600 by 50 metres (8,530 ft × 164 ft) and 13R/31L is 1,100 by 30 metres (3,609 ft × 98 ft).[1]
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
---|---|
Air Algérie | Algiers Seasonal: Oran |
Air Arabia Maroc | Casablanca, Fès, Nador |
Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
easyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, London–Gatwick, Paris–Orly Seasonal: London–Luton |
Flyr | Seasonal: Oslo[4] |
KLM | Amsterdam |
Luxair | Luxembourg |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen |
Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen |
Transavia | Algiers,[5] Brest,[6] Lisbon, Madrid,[7] Marrakesh, Nantes, Oran, Paris–Orly,[8] Rennes, Seville, Tunis[9] Seasonal: Athens, Berlin,[10] Heraklion, Mykonos,[11] Rome–Fiumicino,[5] Rotterdam/The Hague, Santorini,[12] Split,[10] Stockholm–Arlanda[10] |
TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Oujda |
Volotea | Brest, Lille, Nantes Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Caen, Strasbourg |
Statistics
Ground transport
- Bus route 120 (the "Airport Shuttle") runs between Place de l’Europe tramway station and the Airport along Avenue Pierre Mendès-France.[13]
- ÉcoPôle and Parc Expo are the closest Montpellier tramway stations, but the stations are not close to the passenger terminal.
Airlife magazine
Montpellier Airport's quarterly magazine, Airlife, began publication in 2016. Published by Lysagora Media, the magazine has articles on travel, design, lifestyle and leisure as well as information about the airport and its flight schedules.[14][15]
References
- ^ a b c LFMT – MONTPELLIER MÉDITERRANÉE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Vous êtes perdu ?".
- ^ "Flyr åpner for bestilling av åtte nye reisemål".
- ^ a b Liu, Jim. "Transavia France launches Montpellier base in April 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "La compagnie aérienne Transavia va ouvrir 4 nouvelles lignes au départ de Brest". 2 February 2021.
- ^ https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/
- ^ "Aéroport de Montpellier : Transavia ouvre une ligne vers Paris-Orly cet hiver".
- ^ Liu, Jim. "Transavia France adds Montpellier – Tunisia routes in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ a b c https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/book-a-flight/flights/search/[bare URL]
- ^ "Grèce, France : Transavia muscle son programme".
- ^ "Montpellier sera reliée à Santorin par Transavia | Air Journal". April 2021.
- ^ Aéroport Montpellier Méditerranée, http://www.montpellier.aeroport.fr/en/acces-a-l-aeroport/en-transports-publics
- ^ Montpellier Airport. "Airlife Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ OCLC 971614134
External links
Media related to Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Montpellier Airport (official site) (in English)
- CCI de Montpellier (official site) (in French)
- Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
- Airport information for LFMT at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- Current weather for LFMT at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for MPL at Aviation Safety Network
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken graphs
- All articles with bare URLs for citations
- Articles with bare URLs for citations from May 2022
- EngvarB from May 2014
- Use dmy dates from May 2014
- Articles with short description
- Coordinates not on Wikidata
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- Articles with French-language sources (fr)
- AC with 0 elements
- Airports in Occitania (administrative region)
- Buildings and structures in Montpellier
- Buildings and structures in Hérault
- Airports established in 1946