Toulouse–Blagnac Airport

Toulouse Blagnac Airport
Aéroport de Toulouse – Blagnac
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Toulouse
Serves Toulouse, France
Location Blagnac
Hub for Volotea
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 497 ft / 151 m
Coordinates 43°38′06″N 001°22′04″E / 43.63500°N 1.36778°E / 43.63500; 1.36778Coordinates: 43°38′06″N 001°22′04″E / 43.63500°N 1.36778°E / 43.63500; 1.36778
Website toulouse.aeroport.fr
Map
LFBO
Location of airport in Occitanie region
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14R/32L 3,500 11,483 Bituminous concrete
14L/32R 3,000 9,843 Bituminous concrete
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 9,264,611
Passenger traffic change Increase 14.6%
Aircraft movements 95,192
Aircraft movements change Decrease 2.2%
Source: French AIP[1]
French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Toulouse Blagnac Airport (French: Aéroport de Toulouse–Blagnac) (IATA: TLS, ICAO: LFBO) is an international airport located 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) west northwest of Toulouse,[2] and partially in Blagnac, both communes of the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of France. In 2017, the airport served 9,264,611 passengers.[3] As of April 2017, the airport features flights to 74 destinations mostly in Europe and Northern Africa with a few additional seasonal long-haul connections.[4]

Facilities

Aerial view
Departures area

The airport resides at an elevation of 499 feet (152 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 14R/32L is 3,500 by 45 metres (11,483 ft × 148 ft) and 14L/32R is 3,000 by 45 metres (9,843 ft × 148 ft).[1] Both Airbus and ATR manufacture aircraft at nearby facilities and test them from the airport. A Concorde formerly operated by Air France with the registration F-BVFC is preserved at the Aeroscopia Museum near the airport.

Ownership

Toulouse–Blagnac Airport S. A. is a limited liability company; the share capital is €148,000 and shareholders are the French government (60%); Toulouse Chamber of Commerce and Industry (25%); the Regional Council (5%); the Departmental Council (5%); and the Urban Area (5%). Toulouse–Blagnac Airport S.A. has authority to operate the airport until 2046 under a franchise agreement awarded by the French government.[5] The current CEO is Philippe Crébassa.[6]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Toulouse:[4]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion
Aer Lingus Dublin
Aigle Azur Algiers, Oran
Air Algérie Algiers, Oran
Seasonal: Constantine
Air Arabia Maroc Agadir, Casablanca, Fes
Air Corsica Ajaccio
Seasonal: Calvi, Figari
Air France Caen, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Rennes, Strasbourg
Seasonal: Athens, Calvi, Figari, Malta
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
APG Airlines Lorient[7]
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways London–Heathrow
Seasonal charter: Edinburgh
Brussels Airlines Brussels
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Faro, Geneva, Lille, Liverpool (begins 28 October 2018),[8] London–Gatwick, London-Luton, Lyon, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Venice
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Bastia, Dubrovnik, Figari, Ibiza, Malaga, Minorca, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Valencia
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Flybe Manchester
Germania Seasonal: Agadir, Dubrovnik, Funchal, Palermo,[9] Oujda, Tangier
Iberia Express Madrid
Iberia Regional Madrid
IGavion Châteauroux[10]
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Nouvelair Djerba,[11] Tunis
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca, Marrakech
Ryanair Berlin-Schönefeld, Charleroi, Edinburgh, Fes, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Naples, Seville
Seasonal: Warsaw-Modlin
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TUI Airways Seasonal charter: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Travel Service Seasonal charter: Shannon
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Agadir, Marrakech
Seasonal charter: Menorca, Oujda
Tunisair Djerba, Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk
Twin Jet Friedrichshafen, Metz–Nancy
Volotea Gran Canaria, Nantes, Tenerife South, Strasbourg, Venice
Seasonal: Ajaccio, Alicante, Bastia, Brest, Catania, Figari, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Málaga, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Prague, Split
Vueling Barcelona
Seasonal: Malaga, Palma de Mallorca
XL Airways France Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Fort-de-France

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
FedEx Feeder Paris-Charles de Gaulle
UPS Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Lyon
Cargolux Los Angeles

Access

Tram connection to the airport.

Tram

Since April 2015, the tram line T2 connects Toulouse with the airport every 15 minutes.[12] The tram connects with metro ligne A at Arènes and metro ligne B at Palais de Justice. It takes about 35 minutes with a change to go to the town center by tram.

Bus and coach

Shuttle buses to Toulouse city centre stop outside Hall B every 20 minutes. Faster than the tram, 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.[13] Two daily coach services[14] connect Toulouse–Blagnac Airport to Andorra,[15] which does not have its own commercial airport.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 29 January 1988, Inter Cargo Service Flight 1004, operated by Vickers Vanguard F-GEJF crashed when take-off was attempted with only three fully operable engines.[16]
  • On 30 June 1994, an Airbus A330-300 performing a test flight crashed shortly after takeoff, due to a series of mistakes while conducting a flight test simulating an engine failure. All seven people on board died in the accident.[17]
  • On 15 November 2007, a brand-new Airbus A340-600 due to be delivered to Etihad Airways ran up and over the top of a concrete sloped blast-deflection wall during an engine test at the Airbus factory at the airport. This was due to the crew not following proper test procedures, raising all four engines to maximum thrust while the wheels were un-chocked. The attempt to steer away from the wall resulted in decreased braking power. Five people were injured and the aircraft was written off.[18][19]

References

  1. 1 2 LFBO – TOULOUSE BLAGNAC. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 11 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "EAD Basic - Error Page". www.ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  3. ↑ (in French) Résultats de trafic | Aéroport Toulouse-Blagnac Archived 6 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine.. Toulouse.aeroport.fr. Retrieved on 29 October 2013.
  4. 1 2 toulouse.aeroport.fr - Destinations retrieved 30 April 2017
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ (in French)Président du Directoire de l’Aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac
  7. ↑ "APG AIRLINES". APG Inc. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "easyJet adds new route from Liverpool John Lennon Airport". Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
  9. ↑ Germania begin new seasonal service to Palermo
  10. ↑ https://www.igavion.fr/en
  11. ↑ https://www.nouvelair.com/en
  12. ↑ "Public transport". Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  13. ↑ (in French) Les transports en commun (navettes, bus, etc...) | Aéroport Toulouse-Blagnac Archived 24 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine.. Toulouse.aeroport.fr. Retrieved on 29 October 2013.
  14. ↑ "Novatel Toulouse to Andorra". Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  15. ↑ Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  17. ↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A330-321 F-WWKH Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  18. ↑ "F-WWCJ Final Report" (PDF). Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  19. ↑ "Etihad Airbus Crashes Into Wall During Testing". Airline World. 16 November 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2014.

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