Nice Côte d'Azur Airport

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport
Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner/Operator Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA)
Serves Nice, the Côte d'Azur and the Principality of Monaco
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 4 m / 13 ft
Coordinates 43°39′55″N 007°12′54″E / 43.66528°N 7.21500°E / 43.66528; 7.21500Coordinates: 43°39′55″N 007°12′54″E / 43.66528°N 7.21500°E / 43.66528; 7.21500
Website en.nice.aeroport.fr
Maps

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France
LFMN
Airport in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04L/22R 2,570 8,432 Bituminous concrete
04R/22L 2,960 9,711 Bituminous concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 29.25 96 Asphaltic concrete
H2 29.25 96 Asphaltic concrete
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 13,304,782
Passenger traffic change Increase 7.1%
Aircraft movements 164,992
Aircraft movements change Increase 0.4%
Airport data from French AIP.[1]
French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]
Statistics[3]

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (French: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) (IATA: NCE, ICAO: LFMN) is an international airport located 3.2 NM (5.9 km; 3.7 mi) southwest[2] of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes départment of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2017, it handled 13,304,782 passengers. The airport is positioned 7 km (4 mi) west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur.

Due to its proximity to the Principality of Monaco, it also serves as the city-state's airport, with helicopter service linking the principality and airport.[4] Some airlines market Monaco as a destination via Nice Airport.[5]

Facilities

Terminal 1
Terminal 2
Control tower
The airport with Nice seen in the background

The airport covers an area of over 3.70 km2 (1.43 sq mi), with 2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi) used by its two parallel runways and the two passenger terminals and freight terminal. The airport's theoretical capacity is 13 million annual passengers and 52 movements (26 landings) per hour. The two airport terminals are linked by courtesy shuttle buses that also connect the car parks with the terminals.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 features 25 gates on a space of 52,000 m2 (560,000 sq ft). It features flights to domestic, Schengen and non-Schengen destinations and has a capacity of 4.5 million passengers per year. A business center is located at Terminal 1 containing eight rooms and a conference room with a capacity of 250 people.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is the newer and larger facility and has 29 gates on a space of 57,800 m2 (622,000 sq ft) and is also equipped to handle flights to all destinations. It has a capacity of 8.5 million passengers per year.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens[6]
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Algérie Algiers, Constantine
airBaltic Riga
Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air Corsica Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Athens, Beirut, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
APG Airlines Bergamo[7]
Arkia Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Belavia Minsk[8]
Blue Air Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca[9]
British Airways London–City, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow
Seasonal: London–Stansted,[10] Manchester[11]
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Chalair Aviation Limoges
Croatia Airlines Seasonal: Dubrovnik
Czech Airlines Prague
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: New York–JFK
easyJet Amsterdam,[12] Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel, Bordeaux, Brussels, Faro,[13] Geneva, Lille, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Marrakech, Nantes, Naples, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Porto (begins 30 October 2018) [14], Rome–Fiumicino, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Venice, Zürich
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Biarritz, Bristol, Cagliari, Catania, Chania, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Mykonos, Newcastle upon Tyne, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
El Al Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna (ends 28 October 2018)[15]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Heli Air Monaco Monaco[lower-alpha 1]
HOP! Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Metz/Nancy, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg
Seasonal: Quimper
Iberia Express Madrid
Iberia Regional Madrid
Seasonal: Ibiza, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca
Israir Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Jet2.com Seasonal: Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester
KLM Amsterdam
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Meridiana Seasonal: Olbia
Middle East Airlines Seasonal: Beirut
Mistral Air Florence[16]
Monacair Monaco[17][lower-alpha 1]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Bergen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Stavanger, Trondheim
Nordica Seasonal: Groningen,[18] Tallinn
Nouvelair Monastir, Tunis[19]
Primera Air Seasonal: Billund
Qatar Airways Doha[20]
Rossiya Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Dublin, London–Stansted
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Aarhus, Bergen, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Trondheim
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TAROM Bucharest
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Charleroi, Marrakech, Ostend/Bruges[21]
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk
Twin Jet Milan–Malpensa
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal: Kiev–Boryspil
Volotea Strasbourg
Seasonal: Luxembourg, Malta, Palermo, Pau, Rennes, Split[22]
Vueling Barcelona, Rome–Fiumicino
Wizz Air Bucharest, Budapest,[23] Sofia, Vilnius, Kaunas, Vienna (begins 22 February 2019),[24] Warsaw–Chopin[25]
  1. 1 2 by helicopter

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines France Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
DHL Aviation Malta, Marseille
FedEx Feeder Paris–Charles de Gaulle

Statistics

Passengers per Year
Year Passengers Change
Jan 2018 731,977 Increase12.8%
2017 13,304,782 Increase7.1%
2016 12,427,511 Increase3.4%
2015 12,016,730 Increase3.1%
2014 11,660,208 Increase0.9%
2013 11,554,251 Increase3.3%
2012 11,189,896 Increase7.4%
2011 10,422,073 Increase8.5%
2010 9,603,014 Decrease2.3%
2009 9,830,987 Decrease5.3%

Ground transportation

The airport is located on the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. Buses go between the airport and the Gare de Nice-Ville railway station (route 99) and Nice-Riquier railway station (route 98). The train station Nice-Saint-Augustin is near the airport (15 minutes by foot). Currently under development is a second Tram line that will connect the Airport to the center of Nice at Place Masséna.[26]

Accidents and incidents

  • On 9 April 1949, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BATU of Air France overran the runway and was damaged beyond economic repair.[27]
  • On 3 March 1952, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BCUM of Air France crashed shortly after take-off killing all 38 people on board. The cause of the accident was that the aileron controls had jammed. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Nice to Orly Airport, Paris.[28]

References

  1. ↑ LFMN – NICE CÔTE D'AZUR. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 11 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "EAD Basic". Ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "Nice Côte d'Azur Airport: 2015 airport statistics". Societe.Nice.Aeroport.fr. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Airports Serving Monaco". Angloinfo Monaco. Angloinfo. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Route Map" in 1993, Trans World Airlines
  6. ↑ "Book a flight". Aegean Airlines. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  8. ↑ L, J (12 February 2014). "Belavia Adds Krasnodar and Nice Service from late-April 2014". Airline Roites. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  9. ↑ Blue Air anunţă noi rute (in Romanian)
  10. ↑ http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8195?ref=HeroStory
  11. ↑ http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2017-228/8195?ref=HeroStory
  12. ↑ "easyJet announces six new routes from Amsterdam and strengthens its links between The Netherlands and the UK". EasyJet. 14 October 2014.
  13. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/en/
  14. ↑ "easyJet annonce l'ouverture d'une ligne Nice-Porto". Tribuca. 12 July 2018.
  15. ↑ austrianaviation.net - "Eurowings terminates Larnaca, Nice and London-Stansted" (German) retrieved 21 August 2018
  16. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/272438/mistral-air-s17-new-routes-addition/
  17. ↑ http://www.air-journal.fr/2016-06-03-air-france-se-pose-a-monaco-5163961.html
  18. ↑ http://newsroom.aviator.aero/nordica-to-launch-flights-between-groningen-and-nice-in-june/
  19. ↑ Lyon
  20. ↑ http://saudigazette.com.sa/business/qatar-airways-set-direct-flights-nice/
  21. ↑ https://www.tuifly.be/en/destinations/france/nice
  22. ↑ http://www.volotea.com
  23. ↑ Wizz Air thrives in Hungary Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  24. ↑ "Wien: Wizzair kündigt neun weitere Strecken an". austrianaviation.net. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  25. ↑ https://wizzair.com/#/
  26. ↑ "Line 2 tram expected to be finished in 2017". Attika International. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  27. ↑ "F-BATU Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  28. ↑ "F-BCUM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

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