Bastia – Poretta Airport

Bastia – Poretta Airport
Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
Serves Bastia, Corsica, France
Location Lucciana
Elevation AMSL 26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E / 42.55000; 9.48472Coordinates: 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E / 42.55000; 9.48472
Website bastia.aeroport.fr
Maps

Corsica region of France
LFKB
Location of the airport in Corsica
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 2,520 8,268 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 1,400,632
Passenger Change 16-17 Increase8.8%
Source: French AIP[1]

Bastia – Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.

History

Airphoto of Borgo Airfield, 15 August 1944. Note the large number of B-17s on the parking apron, probably used during the Invasion of Southern France

In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

USAAF combat units assigned:

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Corsica Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris-Orly
Seasonal: Charleroi,[3] Dole, Liège[4], London-Stansted, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle,[5] Toulon
Air France Paris-Orly
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Castres, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Lyon, Metz-Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Pau, Perpignan, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Atlantic Airways Seasonal: Copenhagen
British Airways Seasonal charter: London-Heathrow
BMI Regional Seasonal: Bristol
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[6]
Chalair Aviation Seasonal: Limoges, Perpignan[7]
easyJet Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Lyon, Manchester, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Venice
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Vienna
Flybe Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton
Germania Seasonal: Bremen (begins 4 May 2019), Dresden, Nuremberg
HOP! Seasonal: Angers, Bordeaux, Rouen
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich, Frankfurt
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Volotea Seasonal: Brest, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona, Rennes

References

  1. 1 2 LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 11 October 2018.
  2. ↑  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
    • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
    • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
  3. ↑ http://www.aircorsica.com/avion/billet-avion-bastia.html?language=en
  4. ↑ http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_une-ligne-reguliere-vers-la-corse-au-depart-de-liege-des-le-mois-d-avril?id=8103283
  5. ↑ http://www.corsematin.com/article/article/la-corse-connectee-a-lannee-avec-laeroport-de-paris-roissy
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  7. ↑ airline's website

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