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Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport
Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport; Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry
IATA: LYS – ICAO: LFLL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Location	Lyon, France
Elevation AMSL	821 ft / 250 m
Coordinates	45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E / 45.72556°N 5.08111°ECoordinates: 45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E / 45.72556°N 5.08111°E
Runways
Statistics (2008)
Passengers	7 924 063
Freight (tons)	32 814
	Source: French AIP; French AIP at EUROCONTROL

"LYS" redirects here. For the amino acid, see Lysine.

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (French: Aéroport Lyon Saint-Exupéry) (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is one of the two airports located in the agglomeration of Lyon, France. The airport is named after the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a native of Lyon.

The airport lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, 11 NM (20 km; 13 mi) east southeast^[2] of Lyon city centre. Its two runways are aligned north-south. It is an important transport facility for the entire Rhône-Alpes region. Coach links connect the airport with the centre of Lyon and other towns in the area including Chambéry and Grenoble.

Zone served by Rhônexpress (2010)

[edit] History

The airport was inaugurated by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on 12 April 1975 and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the old Lyon-Bron Airport which could not be extended as it was located in an urban area.

In 1994 the LGV Rhône-Alpes high-speed rail line brought TGV service to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy of the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature.

Originally named Lyon Satolas Airport, in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

In 2007, the airport served 7,320,952 passengers,^[3] making it France's fourth busiest airport after Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Nice airports.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aerial view of Lyon Airport

[edit] Terminal 1

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Aigle Azur	Algiers, Bejaia, Constantine, Oran, Setif
Air Algérie	Algiers, Annaba, Constantine, Oran, Setif
Air Algerie operated by Saga Airlines	Bejaia
Air Austral	Saint-Denis de la Réunion
Air Malta	Malta
Air Transat	Montréal-Trudeau
Airlinair	La Rochelle, Poitiers
Air Méditerranée	Heraklion, Luxor, Marrakech, Moscow-Domodedovo, Oslo-Gardermoen, Shannon
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Blue Air	Bucharest-Băneasa
BMI	Manchester
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Bulgarian Air Charter	Burgas, Varna [seasonal]
City Airline	Gothenburg-Landvetter
Corsairfly	Mauritius, Saint-Denis de la Réunion
Croatia Airlines	Split
Hex'Air	Rodez
Iberia Airlines operated by Air Nostrum	Madrid
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Düsseldorf
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines	Zürich
Sky Airlines	Antalya
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
TAP operated by Portugália	Lisbon
TAROM	Bucharest-Henri Coandă
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Twin Jet	Angoulême

[edit] Terminal 2

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Tunis
operated by Airlinair	Clermont-Ferrand, Biarritz, Le Havre, Limoges, Marseilles, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Paris-Orly, Pau, Rouen, Toulouse
operated by Brit Air	Barcelona, Birmingham, Brest, Caen, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Le Havre, Lille, Madrid, Munich, Nice, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg
operated by CCM Airlines	Ajaccio, Bastia, Figari
operated by Régional	Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Biarritz, Bologna, Brussels, Clermont-Ferrand, Hamburg, Lorient, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Pau, Stuttgart, Venice-Marco Polo
Atlas Blue	Fez, Marrakech
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca

[edit] Terminal 3

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
EasyJet	Barcelona, Bastia, Biarritz, Brussels [begins 17 December], Bordeaux, Casablanca, Edinburgh [begins 17 December], Ibiza, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech, Nantes, Olbia, Pisa, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo

[edit] References

^ LFLL – LYON SAINT EXUPERY (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 19 Nov 2009.
^ ^a ^b EAD Basic
^ Lyon Airport - Passenger numbers for 2007

http://www.lyonairport.com/index.php?module=cms_portlet_communiques_presse&desc=default&action=getDoc&id_doc=262

[edit] External links

Official website
Aéroport de Lyon Saint Exupéry (Union des Aéroports Français)

Lyon portal

[AIP1-0] LFLL – LYON SAINT EXUPERY (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 19 Nov 2009.

[AIP2-1] EAD Basic

[2] Lyon Airport - Passenger numbers for 2007

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