Nice Côte d'Azur Airport

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (French: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur, which translates into Nice French Riviera Airport) (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 2019, it handled 14,485,423 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.

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport

Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA)
ServesNice, the Côte d'Azur and the Principality of Monaco
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL4 m / 13 ft
Coordinates43°39′55″N 007°12′54″E
Websiteen.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 (2019)
Passengers14,485,423
Passenger traffic change 4.6%
Aircraft movements166,781
Aircraft movements change 1.8%
Airport data from French AIP.[1]
French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]
Statistics[3]

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 three passenger terminals and freight terminal. The airport's theoretical capacity is 13 million annual passengers and 52 movements (26 landings) per hour. Terminals 1 and 2 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.

Business Aviation Terminal

The Business Aviation Terminal, located next to Terminal 2, covers an area of 1,500 m2 (16,000 sq ft). Opened in 2010, this terminal contains the operations rooms, VIP lounges, crew lounges and offices of several business aviation companies.[6]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Nice:[7]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens[8]
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Cork,[9] Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Algérie Algiers, Constantine
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air Corsica Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Algiers, Athens, Beirut, Clermont-Ferrand (begins 4 July 2020),[10] La Rochelle (begins 4 July 2020),[10] Tel Aviv, Toulouse (begins 4 July 2020)[10]
Air France Hop Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Metz/Nancy, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg
Seasonal: Pau, Quimper
Air Moldova Seasonal: Chișinău[11]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade[12]
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Belavia Minsk[13]
Blue Air Bucharest
British Airways London–City, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow
Seasonal: London–Stansted,[14] Manchester[14]
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Chalair Aviation Limoges
Seasonal: Agen,[15] Bergerac[15]
Czech Airlines Prague
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: New York–JFK
easyJet[16] Amsterdam,[17] Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Faro,[18] Geneva, Lille, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marrakech, Nantes, Naples, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Porto, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Venice
Seasonal: Agadir,[19] Belfast–International, Biarritz, Cagliari, Catania, Chania, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Ibiza , Menorca ,[20] Mykonos, Newcastle upon Tyne, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Tangier[19]
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
El Al Tel Aviv[21]
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Heli Air Monaco Monaco[lower-alpha 1]
Heli Securite Seasonal: St. Tropez[22]
Iberia Express Madrid
Iberia Regional Madrid
Seasonal: Ibiza, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca
Jet2.com Birmingham,[23] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester
KLM Amsterdam
La Compagnie Seasonal: Newark[24]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Middle East Airlines Seasonal: Beirut
Monacair Monaco[25][lower-alpha 1]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Bergen, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Trondheim
Nouvelair Monastir, Tunis
Qatar Airways Doha[26]
Rossiya Saint Petersburg
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Dublin, London–Stansted
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo[27]
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Aarhus, Bergen,[28] Gothenburg, Stavanger, Trondheim
SkyUp Seasonal: Kiev–Boryspil[29]
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TAROM Bucharest
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Marrakech, Ostend/Bruges[30]
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[31]
Twin Jet Milan–Malpensa
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal: Kiev–Boryspil
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark [32][33]
Volotea Nantes,[34] Strasbourg, Toulouse
Seasonal: Brest (begins 3 July 2020),[35] Caen (begins 3 July 2020),[35] Luxembourg, Málaga, Malta, Palermo, Pau, Rennes, Split[36]
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bucharest, Budapest, Chișinău (begins 15 July 2020),[37] Kraków,[38] Sofia, Vienna,[39] Vilnius
  1. 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
2018 13,850,561 04.1%
2017 13,304,782 07.1%
2016 12,427,511 03.4%
2015 12,016,730 03.1%
2014 11,660,208 00.9%
2013 11,554,251 03.3%
2012 11,189,896 07.4%
2011 10,422,073 08.5%
2010 9,603,014 02.3%
2009 9,830,987 05.3%

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 -discontinued-) and Nice-Riquier railway station (route 98). The train station Nice-Saint-Augustin is near the airport (15 minutes by foot). Since December 2018, Nice tramway line no2 connects the Airport to the Magnan interchange to the West of the City centre. The route will then continue to the Harbour via the city centre in 2019-2020.

Société Naviplane Ferry

In 1969 an experimental and short-lived ferry service utilized two N.300 Naviplane hovercrafts. The airport was connected to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco and San-Remo.[40]

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.[41]
  • 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.[42]

See also

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