Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Socièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Lille, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Lesquin, France | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 157 ft / 48 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lille.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
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  LFQQ Location of Lille Airport  LFQQ LFQQ (France) | |||||||||||||||
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Lille Airport[1] (French: Aéroport de Lille[1]) (IATA: LIL[3], ICAO: LFQQ[2]) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille,[2] a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department.
The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille. It is the 12th busiest French airport in number of passengers: around 970,000 passengers in 2001 and 1,397,637 passengers in 2012.[4] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.
- ^ a b c Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
- ^ a b c LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 31 October 2024.
- ^ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine