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Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport

Coordinates:45°43′32″N005°04′52″E/ 45.72556°N 5.08111°E/45.72556; 5.08111(Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport)
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Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport

Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAéroports de Lyon (Vinci SA-Caisse des dépôts consortium)
ServesLyon Metropolis
LocationColombier-Saugnieu,Rhône,France
Opened12 April 1975;49 years ago(1975-04-12)
Focus cityfor
ElevationAMSL821 ft / 250 m
Coordinates45°43′32″N005°04′52″E/ 45.72556°N 5.08111°E/45.72556; 5.08111(Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport)
Websitewww.lyonaeroports.com
Map
LYS/LFLL is located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
LYS/LFLL
LYS/LFLL
Location of airport in theAuvergne-Rhône-Alpesregion
LYS/LFLL is located in France
LYS/LFLL
LYS/LFLL
LYS/LFLL (France)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17R/35L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt
17L/35R 2,670 8,760 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers9,970,000
Passenger ratio 19-2385.6%
Freight (tons)55,404
Freight change 16-17Decrease1.2%
Source:French ministery of ecologyref>"Statistiques du transport aérien en France".ecologie.gouv.fr(in French). 26 January 2024.</ref>

Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport(IATA:LYS,ICAO:LFLL) — formerly known asLyon Satolas Airport— is aninternational airportofLyon,the third-biggest city inFranceand an important transport facility for the entireAuvergne-Rhône-Alpesregion. It lies inColombier-Saugnieu,11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) southeast of Lyon's city centre. The airport is 30 minutes from theLyon-Part-Dieubusiness district by theRhônexpresstram.[1]

History

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Early years

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The airport was inaugurated by PresidentValéry Giscard d'Estaingon 12 April 1975, and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the oldLyon–Bron Airport,which is now only used forgeneral aviation.

In 1994, theLGV Rhône-Alpeshigh-speed rail line broughtTGVservice to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris andMarseille.Thefan-shapedcanopy of theGare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry,designed by architectSantiago Calatrava,is the airport's most notablearchitecturalfeature.

Since 1997, the airport has been afocus cityfor the airlineAir France.

Development since the 2000s

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The airport was originally namedLyon Satolas Airport,after the nearbyeponymous village,but in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writerAntoine de Saint-Exupéry,on the centenary of his birth. He was a native of Lyon, and a laureate of theGrand Prix du roman de l'Académie française,and died inWorld War II.

In 2013, the airport served 8,562,298 passengers, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year. Air freight increased by 22.7% to 44,820 tonnes, although overall aircraft movements dropped by 2.8% to 113,420.[2]

Facilities

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The airport consists of passenger terminals1and2which are interconnected on the landside by a central building that itself has a foot-bridge to the nearbyGare de Lyon Saint-Exupéryhigh-speed railway station and theRhônexpressterminus.[3]The airport also features two runways as well as cargo facilities. A total of 16,000 car spaces in four car parks (P2-P5) are available. Two of the parks are underground (P2 and P3) while the long-stay parks (P4 and P5) are located at a distance from the terminals behind the railway station.[3]

Terminal 1

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Terminal 1 consists of two parts: The older part is a two-storey, slightly curved, brick shape building which contains the check-in areas 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 as well as departure areasGandFon the upper level with the arrivals on the ground level.[3]In 2014, Aéroports de Lyon started the construction of a new terminal expansion, which doubled the capacity and the area, with 70,000 m2.[4]Four groups took part in the tender process to design and develop the expanded Terminal 1. The bid was won by the GFC Construction company in partnership with Quille Construction (Bouygues) and Bouygues Energies & Services. The architectural practice wasRogers Stirk Harbour + Partnersled byGraham Stirk,Chabanne and Partners, engineersTechnipTPS and Cap Ingélec, and Inddigo.[5][unreliable source?]The expanded Terminal 1 opened in June 2018. It has a circular shape with check-in area 10 and additional arrivals facilities on the ground level and departure gatesBandCon both upper levels.[3]It is also connected by a tunnel to a small satellite building containing theDgates, now mainly used byeasyJetandTransavia France,while the other areas serveStar Alliancecarriers andEmirates,among others.

Terminal 2

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Terminal 2 is a duplicate of the older part of Terminal 1, containing check-in areas 20 and 21 with boarding areasQandPon the upper level and arrivals facilities on the lower level. This terminal area is mainly used byAir France.[3]

Terminal 3(defunct)

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The former Terminal 3 was a very basic facility used bylow-cost carriers.It was demolished during Terminal 1 expansion. The satellite building is still open, however; it now houses the ‘D’ gates for low cost airlines such as easyJet.

Airlines and destinations

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Passenger

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AirlinesDestinations
Aegean AirlinesSeasonal:Athens,Heraklion[6]
Aer LingusDublin
Seasonal:Cork[7]
Air AlgérieAlgiers,Annaba,Batna,Béjaïa,Biskra,Constantine,Oran,Sétif,Tlemcen
Air ArabiaCasablanca,Fès,Tangier,[8]Tétouan(begins 29 October 2024)[9]
Seasonal:Oujda[10]
Air CairoSeasonal:Luxor[11]
Air CanadaMontréal–Trudeau[12]
Air CorsicaAjaccio,Bastia
Seasonal:Calvi,Figari
Air DolomitiFrankfurt(begins 27 October 2024)[13]
Air FranceAmsterdam,[14]Biarritz,Bordeaux,Brest,Caen,Lille,Marseille,Nantes,Nice,Paris–Charles de Gaulle,Pau,Rennes,Strasbourg,Toulouse
Seasonal:Ajaccio,Bastia,Brive,[15]Calvi,Figari[16]
Air MontenegroPodgorica[17]
Air SerbiaBelgrade[18][19]
Air TransatMontréal–Trudeau
AJetIstanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[20]
ASL Airlines FranceAlgiers
Austrian AirlinesVienna
BRA Braathens Regional AirlinesGothenburg[21]
British AirwaysLondon–Heathrow
Seasonal:London–Gatwick[22]
Brussels AirlinesBrussels
Chalair AviationLimoges,Poitiers
Corsair InternationalSaint-Denis de la Réunion
Seasonal:Pointe-à-Pitre
Croatia AirlinesSeasonal:Split
easyJetAthens,[23]Barcelona,Bordeaux,Budapest,Copenhagen,Edinburgh,Faro,Funchal,Hurghada,[24]Lanzarote,La Rochelle,[25]Lisbon,London–Gatwick,London–Luton,Madrid,Málaga,[26]Manchester,Marrakech,Nantes,Naples,Porto,Prague,[27]Rabat,[28]Rome–Fiumicino,Tenerife–South,Toulouse,Venice
Seasonal:Agadir,Ajaccio,Alicante,[29]Bastia,Belfast–International,Berlin(begins 8 November 2024),[30]Biarritz,Bournemouth,[31]Bristol,Cagliari,[32]Calvi,Catania,Chania,Corfu,Dubrovnik,Figari,Heraklion,[33]Ibiza,Kos,[27]Liverpool,[34]Menorca,Newcastle upon Tyne(begins 4 January 2025),[35]Olbia,Palermo,Palma de Mallorca,Rovaniemi(begins 30 November 2024),[36][37]Split
EmiratesDubai–International
EurowingsDüsseldorf
FlyOneYerevan
IberiaMadrid
Jet2.comSeasonal:Manchester
KLMAmsterdam
KM Malta AirlinesSeasonal:Malta[38]
LOT Polish AirlinesWarsaw–Chopin(resumes 30 September 2024)[39]
LufthansaFrankfurt,[40]Munich[41]
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal:Oslo,[42]Stockholm–Arlanda[43]
NouvelairSeasonal:Djerba,Monastir,[44]Tunis
Pegasus AirlinesIstanbul–Sabiha Gökçen,Kayseri[45]
Qatar AirwaysDoha[46]
Royal Air MarocCasablanca,Marrakech
Royal JordanianAmman–Queen Alia[47]
Sky ExpressSeasonal:Heraklion[48]
Sun d'OrTel Aviv(begins 22 December 2024)[49]
SunExpressSeasonal:Antalya,[50]Izmir[51]
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TransaviaAgadir,Algiers,Beirut,Béjaïa,Casablanca,[52]Constantine,Dubai–Al Maktoum(begins 27 October 2024),[53]Fès,[54]Funchal,Istanbul,[55]Jeddah(begins 13 December 2024),[56]Marrakesh,Monastir,Oran,Oujda,[57]Porto,Tel Aviv,[58]Tunis
Seasonal:Alicante,[59]Amman–Queen Alia[60][better source needed]Athens,Bari,Catania,[61]Dakar–Diass,[55]Djerba,Faro,Gran Canaria,Heraklion,Hurghada,[55]Ibiza,[59]Málaga,Menorca,[59]Olbia,Palermo,Palma de Mallorca,[62]Rhodes,[62]Santorini,[62]Seville,Stockholm–Arlanda,[63]Tenerife–South,[55]Tirana,[64]Valencia,[62]Yerevan[54]
TunisairDjerba,Monastir,Tunis
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
Twin JetBologna,[65]Milan–Malpensa,[66]Pau[67]
VoloteaAthens,Berlin,[68]Fuerteventura,Gran Canaria,Hamburg,[68]Lanzarote,Málaga,Nantes,Porto,[69]Prague,Tenerife–South,Valencia,Venice
Seasonal:Ajaccio,Alicante,Bari,Bastia,Bergamo,Bilbao,Caen,Cagliari,Corfu,Dubrovnik,Faro,Figari,Florence,Heraklion,Kalamata,[70]Madrid,Marrakech,[71]Menorca,Naples,[71]Olbia,Oslo,[71]Palermo,Palma de Mallorca,Rhodes,[71]Santorini,Setif,Split
VuelingBarcelona
Wizz AirBucharest–Otopeni,[72]Cluj-Napoca(begins 28 October 2024),[73]Kraków,[74]Rome–Fiumicino,[75]Sofia(begins 29 October 2024),[76][better source needed]Tirana[77]
Seasonal:London–Gatwick[78]

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines France[79]Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Emirates SkyCargo[80]Dubai–Al Maktoum
UPS Airlines[81]Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at LYS airport. SeeWikidata query.

Ground transportation

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Aerial view
Departure gate area

Rail

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TheRhônexpresstramwaybegan operations in August 2010 and linksGare de Lyon-Part-Dieueast of Lyon's city centre withGare de Lyon Saint-Exupérynext to the airport in approximately 30 minutes[82][83]using and sharing existing tracks of theLyon tramwayas well as a newly constructed route. This tramway replaced the former coach shuttle services (Satobus) that operated beforehand leaving the airport with no other public connections to the city centre.

The Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry station is also served by theLGV Rhône-Alpeshigh speed rail line.

Coach

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Coachlinks connect the airport with the centre of other towns in the area includingGrenoble(at least once an hour),Saint-ÉtienneandChambéry.Bus operators also offer a coach shuttle service to the surrounding French ski resorts, including Tignes, Val d'Isere, Val Thorens and more.

Since January 2020, two buses fromTransports en commun lyonnaisare stopping at the airport:[84]
- The bus 47, fromMeyzieu,connecting with Tram line 3 (from Gare Part-Dieu) toSaint-Laurent-de-Mure,connecting with Bus line 1E (from Grange Blanche) via the airport. The line operates 7 days a week, from 5:30am to 11:45pm, every 30 minutes.
- The bus 48, fromGenasto the airport.

Electric car service

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The airport has an electric car sharing station.Bolloré Bluecarvehicles are available for rent.

See also

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