Toulouse Blagnac Airport or Aéroport de Toulouse - Blagnac (IATA: TLS, ICAO: LFBO) is an airport located 3.6 NM (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) west northwest of Toulouse,[2] just south of Blagnac, both communes of the Haute-Garonne département in the Midi-Pyrénées région of France.
In 2006, the airport served 5,956,696 passengers.[3]
Both Airbus and ATR assemble aircraft at nearby facilities and test them from the airport.
[edit] Terminals, airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations | Hall |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin [seasonal] | C |
| Aigle Azur | Algiers, Oran | C |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Oran | C |
| Air Austral | Saint-Denis de la Réunion | C |
| Air France | Lyon, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly | B |
| Air France operated by Airlinair | Lyon | B |
| Air France operated by Brit Air | Nantes, Rennes | B |
| Air France operated by CCM | Nice | B |
| Air France operated by Régional | Ajaccio [seasonal], Bastia [seasonal], Calvi [seasonal], Clermont Ferrand, Lille, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg | B |
| Air Malta | Malta [seasonal] | C |
| Air Transat | Montréal-Trudeau [seasonal] | C |
| Atlas Blue | Marrakech | C |
| Baboo | Geneva | A |
| Bmibaby | Manchester | C |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | C |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels | C |
| Corsairfly | Saint-Denis de la Réunion | C |
| EasyJet | Bristol, Geneva [begins 15 December], London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Paris-Orly | C |
| Germanwings | Hamburg | C |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid | A |
| Jet2.com | Belfast-International, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford [seasonal] | C |
| Jet4you | Casablanca | C |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | B |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt | A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Cirrus Airlines | Frankfurt | A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf [seasonal] | A |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Munich | A |
| Nouvelair | Djerba, Monastir [seasonal] | C |
| Ostfriesische Lufttransport | Bremen | A |
| Ostfriesische Lufttransport | Hamburg-Finkenwerder [seasonal] | C |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca | C |
| TAP Portugal operated by Portugália | Lisbon | A |
| Tunisair | Tunis | C |
| Twin Jet | Basel/Mulhouse, Metz-Nancy | A |
Hall D is currently under construction and is due to open in mid-2010[4].
[edit] Transport
Shuttle buses to Toulouse city centre stop outside Hall C every 20 minutes. They take approximately 20 minutes to reach the city centre, stopping at Compans Caffarelli and Jeanne d'Arc (both on Metro Line B), Jean Jaurès (Metro Line A and B) and at Toulouse-Matabiau railway station.[5]
Taxis cost approximately 22€ to Toulouse city centre one way.[6]
2 daily coach services connect Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to Andorra,[7], as the country that does not have a commercial airport.
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On 29 January 1988, Inter Cargo Service Flight 1004, operated by Vickers Vanguard F-GEJF crashed on take-off when take-off was attempted with only three fully operable engines.[8]
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