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International airport serving Bordeaux, France
Bordeaux?Merignac Airport
(
French
:
Aeroport de Bordeaux-Merignac
) (
IATA
:
BOD
,
ICAO
:
LFBD
) is an
international airport
of
Bordeaux
, in south-western France. It is situated in the
commune
of
Merignac
, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the
departement
of the
Gironde
. It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe, Northern Africa, and Canada, and serves as a base for
easyJet
,
Ryanair
and
Volotea
airlines.
[4]
History
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]
KG 40
, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Merignac during the
Occupation of France in World War II
.
[5]
In May 2024,
Ryanair
announced the closure of its base at Bordeaux Airport citing fee increases, leading to the termination of 40 routes.
[2]
The airline will stop serving the airport altogether by November 2024.
[6]
[7]
Terminals
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]
Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:
- Terminal A
is mainly for international flights.
[8]
- Terminal B
passenger air terminal has two levels and is principally dedicated to
Air France
traffic between Paris and Bordeaux.
[9]
- Terminal billi
is a separate facility for
low cost carriers
. It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.
[10]
Users of Terminal billi are
easyJet
and
Ryanair
.
Airlines and destinations
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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux?Merignac Airport:
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Airlines
| Destinations
|
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Aegean Airlines
| Seasonal:
Athens
,
Heraklion
[12]
|
Aer Lingus
| Dublin
|
Air Algerie
| Algiers
,
Oran
|
Air Arabia
| Fes
|
Air France
| Lyon
,
Paris?Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal:
Ajaccio
,
Calvi
,
Figari
,
Nice
|
Air Transat
| Seasonal:
Montreal?Trudeau
|
British Airways
| London?Gatwick
[13]
|
Brussels Airlines
| Seasonal:
Brussels
[14]
|
Chalair Aviation
| Brest
|
Corsair International
| Seasonal:
Pointe-a-Pitre
|
easyJet
| Athens
,
[15]
Basel/Mulhouse
,
Copenhagen
,
Essaouira
,
[16]
Faro
,
Geneva
,
Lanzarote
,
[17]
Lille
,
Lisbon
,
London?Gatwick
,
Lyon
,
Marrakesh
,
Marseille
,
Milan?Malpensa
,
Nice
,
Porto
,
[18]
Rome?Fiumicino
(begins 21 February 2025),
[19]
Tenerife?South
,
Zurich
(begins 7 November 2024)
[20]
Seasonal:
Ajaccio
,
Bastia
,
Belfast?International
,
Berlin
,
Bristol
,
Catania
,
Funchal
,
[21]
Glasgow
,
Heraklion
,
Ibiza
,
London?Luton
,
Manchester
,
Menorca
,
[22]
Olbia
,
[23]
Palma de Mallorca
,
Rovaniemi
(begins 30 November 2024),
[24]
Rhodes
,
Toulon
[25]
|
HiSky
| Bucharest?Otopeni
[26]
|
Iberia
| Madrid
|
KLM
| Amsterdam
|
Lufthansa
| Frankfurt
Seasonal:
Munich
|
Luxair
| Seasonal:
Luxembourg
[27]
|
Norwegian Air Shuttle
| Seasonal:
Copenhagen
,
[28]
Oslo
|
Nouvelair
| Djerba
,
[29]
Tunis
[30]
|
Royal Air Maroc
| Casablanca
|
Ryanair
[2]
| Agadir
(ends 24 October 2024),
Barcelona
(ends 26 October 2024),
Bergamo
(ends 25 October 2024),
Charleroi
(ends 26 October 2024),
Dublin
(ends 26 October 2024),
Fes
(ends 25 October 2024),
Lisbon
(ends 25 October 2024),
London?Stansted
(ends 24 October 2024),
Malaga
(ends 26 October 2024),
Marrakesh
(ends 25 October 2024),
Marseille
(ends 26 October 2024),
Paphos
(ends 26 October 2024),
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Porto
(ends 26 October 2024),
Prague
(ends 25 October 2024),
Seville
(ends 26 October 2024),
Tangier
(ends 23 October 2024),
Tenerife?South
(ends 22 October 2024),
[32]
Venice
(ends 25 October 2024)
[32]
Seasonal:
Alghero
(ends 26 October 2024),
Alicante
(ends 26 October 2024),
Bari
(ends 24 October 2024),
Birmingham
(ends 24 October 2024),
[33]
Cork
(ends 26 October 2024),
[34]
Edinburgh
(ends 26 October 2024),
Faro
(ends 26 October 2024),
Figari
(ends 26 October 2024),
[35]
Ibiza
(ends 24 October 2024),
[33]
Krakow
(ends 30 June 2024),
Madrid
(ends 26 October 2024),
[33]
[36]
Malta
(ends 26 October 2024),
[33]
Manchester
(ends 26 October 2024),
[36]
Menorca
(ends 26 October 2024),
[33]
Naples
(ends 24 October 2024),
Palma de Mallorca
(ends 25 October 2024),
Pisa
(ends 26 October 2024),
[33]
Trapani
(ends 28 September 2024),
[33]
Valencia
(ends 24 October 2024),
Zadar
(ends 30 June 2024)
[2]
|
Swiss International Air Lines
[37]
| Zurich
|
Transavia
| Eindhoven
Seasonal:
Dakar?Diass
[38]
|
TUI fly Belgium
[39]
| Seasonal:
Oujda
[40]
|
Tunisair
[41]
| Tunis
|
Turkish Airlines
[42]
| Istanbul
|
Volotea
| Algiers
,
[43]
Athens
,
[44]
Dusseldorf
,
[45]
Florence
,
Hamburg
,
[45]
Lille
,
[46]
Malaga
,
Nice
,
Oran
,
Rome?Fiumicino
,
[47]
Strasbourg
,
Stuttgart
,
[45]
Tenerife?South
,
Venice
,
Verona
Seasonal:
Ajaccio
,
Bastia
,
Cagliari
,
Calvi
,
[48]
Corfu
,
Dubrovnik
,
Figari
,
Heraklion
,
[49]
Lanzarote
,
Olbia
,
Palma de Mallorca
,
Santorini
,
Split
|
Vueling
[50]
| Barcelona
|
Statistics
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Ground transport
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]
Road
[
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]
The airport is accessible by road via the
A630 autoroute
(exit
11b
). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the
Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station
. Bus route
1+
of
Transports Bordeaux Metropole
serves the city centre.
Tram
[
edit
]
Bordeaux tramway
's
Line A
links the airport with the city centre since the end of April 2023.
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See also
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]
References
[
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]
- ^
"easyJet Media Centre"
. Mediacentre.easyjet.com
. Retrieved
19 July
2018
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
"connexionfrance.com - UK-France flights hit as Ryanair announces it is leaving Bordeaux airport"
. 15 May 2024.
- ^
"Bilan 2019, une annee record pour le trafic international - Aeroport de Bordeaux-Merignac"
.
www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr
. 16 January 2020.
- ^
"BOD Airlines Bases"
. Bordeaux.Aeroport.fr
. Retrieved
31 December
2019
.
- ^
Wood, Tony; Gunston, Bill (1977).
Hitler's Luftwaffe
. New York: Crescent Books. pp.
64?69&170?171
.
ISBN
0-517-22477-1
.
- ^
"Ryanair announces it is leaving Bordeaux airport"
.
- ^
"ryanair.com"
.
- ^
"Hall A - Bordeaux Merignac Airport | Ingerop"
. Ingerop.fr
. Retrieved
19 July
2018
.
- ^
"Realisations"
. ADPI. Archived from
the original
on 12 August 2018
. Retrieved
19 July
2018
.
- ^
"Terminal billi Bordeaux illico | Bordeaux-Merignac Airport"
. Bordeaux.aeroport.fr
. Retrieved
19 July
2018
.
- ^
"All flights from Bordeaux"
. Bordeaux-Merignac Airport. 3 September 2022.
- ^
"Aegean Airlines NS24 Animawings A320 Operations"
.
- ^
"British Airways Announces Routes and Starts Selling Seats for ITS New Gatwick Short-Haul Subsidiary"
.
- ^
brusselsairlines.com - Destinations
retrieved 11 January 2023
- ^
"easyJet apre 7 rotte per l'estate 2024"
. 16 January 2024.
- ^
"EASYJET NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS ? 11DEC22"
.
Aeroroutes
. 12 December 2022
. Retrieved
12 December
2022
.
- ^
"Lanzarote (Arrecife)"
.
Aeroport de Bordeaux Merignac
.
- ^
"Porto"
.
Aeroport de Bordeaux Merignac
.
- ^
https://italiavola.com/2024/06/11/easyjet-annuncia-60-nuove-rotte-per-la-prossima-stagione-10-da-e-per-litalia-6-da-napoli/
- ^
https://www.travelnews.ch/on-the-move/26614-fuenf-neue-easyjet-ziele-ab-der-schweiz.html
- ^
"easyJet NS24 Network Additions ? 10DEC23"
.
Aeroroutes
. Retrieved
12 December
2023
.
- ^
"Mahon (Minorque)"
.
Aeroport de Bordeaux Merignac
.
- ^
"Du nouveau avec easyJet : 4 destinations supplementaires - Aeroport de Bordeaux-Merignac"
.
www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr
. 4 December 2019.
- ^
https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2024/easyjet-open-six-new-routes-rovaniemi-airport
- ^
"Infos de l'aerien : Cyprus Airways, Air Corsica, ITA Airways, Resaneo, Air France-KLM, Emirates, etc"
.
www.laquotidienne.fr
.
- ^
"Rute noi: Bordeaux - Bucure?ti ?i Chi?in?u cu HiSky din decembrie 2023"
. 11 September 2023.
- ^
"Luxair: Official Site ? Book Direct Flights to 90+ Destinations from 89€"
.
- ^
Miguens, Agustin (17 November 2022).
"Summer 2023: Norwegian launches more than twenty new routes from Denmark and Norway"
.
Aviacionline.com
.
- ^
"Nouvelair Tunisie NS23 Network Additions"
.
AeroRoutes
.
- ^
"Nouvelair Tunisie Adds Tunis ? Bordeaux Service in April 2023"
.
- ^
"Ryanair adds five new routes, increases airport presence (Updated) | Cyprus Mail"
. 21 November 2022.
- ^
a
b
"ryanair.com"
.
Ryanair.com
.
[
better source needed
]
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
"Ryanair announces biggest schedule ever for Bordeaux"
. 2 March 2022.
[
better source needed
]
- ^
"Welcome Home to Cork this Christmas - Ryanair to Restore Cork Airport Base and Twenty Routes"
.
- ^
"Ryanair Launches Two New Domestic French Routes From Bordeaux And Toulouse To Corsica (Figari) This Summer ? Ryanair's Corporate Website"
.
corporate.ryanair.com
. 3 March 2021.
- ^
a
b
"Ryanair NW23 Network Changes ? 17SEP23"
.
- ^
swiss.com - Flights to Bordeaux
retrieved 3 September 2022
- ^
"NEW: Transavia France announces the opening of a direct Bordeaux - Dakar route | Bordeaux-Merignac Airport"
. 26 April 2023.
- ^
"Flight plan"
.
tui.be
. Archived from
the original
on 22 October 2016
. Retrieved
5 April
2023
.
- ^
"Flight Bordeaux to Oujda - Flight ticket Bordeaux to Oujda"
.
- ^
tunisair.com - Schedule
retrieved 3 September 2022
- ^
turkishairlines.com - Flights to Bordeaux
retrieved 3 September 2022
- ^
"VOLOTEA - Destinations"
. 3 April 2022.
- ^
"Volotea announces three new routes from greece to France"
. 12 January 2022.
- ^
a
b
c
"Volotea s'alia amb Eurowings i llanca vuit noves rutes amb Alemanya"
.
ON ECONOMIA
. 15 February 2023.
- ^
"Aeroport de Lille : Volotea ouvre une ligne vers Bordeaux le 17 decembre | la Gazette Nord-Pas de Calais"
.
- ^
https://worldairlinenews.com/2023/07/19/volotea-adds-a-new-route-linking-strasbourg-with-london-gatwick/
[
bare URL
]
- ^
"VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avion a Europa"
.
Volotea
. 6 March 2023.
- ^
"News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA"
.
centreforaviation.com
.
- ^
vueling.com - Flights from Bordeaux
retrieved 3 September 2022
- ^
"Bordeaux : Extension du tramway a jusqu'a l'aeroport | Air Journal"
. 30 April 2023.
- ^
"Bordeaux Airport - Tram connection confirmed"
. Bordeaux Expats. 9 December 2018
. Retrieved
31 December
2019
.
- ^
Yves Maugue (29 April 2016).
"Bordeaux : voici le trace du tramway qui va desservir l'aeroport"
(in French)
. Retrieved
20 July
2016
.
External links
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Media related to
Bordeaux - Merignac Airport
at Wikimedia Commons
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