Marseille Provence Airport

Marseille Provence Airport Aéroport de Marseille-Provence
IATA: MRS – ICAO: LFML
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Marseille Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Serves		Marseille, France
Location		Marignane, France
Elevation AMSL		70 ft / 21 m
Coordinates		43°26′12″N 05°12′54″E / 43.43667°N 5.215°E / 43.43667; 5.215Coordinates: 43°26′12″N 05°12′54″E / 43.43667°N 5.215°E / 43.43667; 5.215
Website		www.mrsairport.com www.marseille.aeroport.fr
Maps
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France
LFML Airport in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
13L/31R	3,500	11,483	Asphalt
13R/31L	2,370	7,776	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			7,522,167
Sources: French AIP[1], airport website[2]

Marseille Provence Airport or Aéroport de Marseille Provence (IATA: MRS, ICAO: LFML) is an airport located 27 km northwest of Marseille^[1], on the territory of Marignane, both communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région of France. Formerly known as Marseille-Marignane Airport, it has been managed since 1934 by the Marseille-Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

It is the fifth busiest French airport by passenger traffic^{[citation needed]} and second largest for cargo traffic.^{[citation needed]} The airport handled 6,155,154 passengers in 2006^[3], 6,963,000 passengers in 2007, 6,965,933 passengers in 2008^[4], 7,290,119 in 2009 and 7,522,167 in 2010.

In September 2006 the airport opened its new terminal MP2 for budget airlines.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin	1
Aigle Azur	Algiers, Annaba, Bejaia, Chlef, Constantine, Oran, Setif, Tlemcen	1
Air Algérie	Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Bejaia, Chlef, Constantine, Oran	1
Air Austral	Saint-Denis de la Réunion	1
Air Burkina	Ouagadougou	1
Air Corsica	Venice [ends 24 March 2012]	3
Air France	Algiers, Beirut, Casablanca, Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Tunis	1
Air France	Athens, Barcelona [begins 25 March 2012], Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Eindhoven, Hamburg [begins 25 March 2012], Prague, Rome-Fiumicino [begins 25 March 2012], Venice [begins 25 March 2012]	3
Air France	Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Brest, Lille, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse	4
Air France operated by Air Corsica	Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari	3
Air France operated by Airlinair	Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino [ends 24 March 2012]	3
Air France operated by Airlinair	Lyon	4
Air France operated by Régional	Strasbourg	4
Air Madagascar	Antananarivo	1
Air Malta	Malta	1
Air Mediterranee	Seasonal: Bodrum, Dakar, Djerba, Heraklion, Ibiza, Marrakech, Monastir	1
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Quebec City, Toronto-Pearson	1
Blue1	Seasonal: Helsinki	1
British Airways	London-Gatwick	1
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	1
Corsairfly	Mauritius, Saint-Denis de la Réunion	1
EasyJet	London-Gatwick Seasonal: Bristol	2
El Al	Tel Aviv	1
Gabon Airlines	Libreville	1
Germanwings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn	2
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Barcelona, Madrid, Seasonal: Ibiza, Minorca	1
Jet4you	Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech	2
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam	3
Lufthansa	Frankfurt	1
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich	1
Onur Air	Antalya, Bodrum, İzmir	2
Pegasus Airlines	İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen	2
Private Wings	Augsburg	1
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca	1
Ryanair	Brest, Brussels South-Charleroi, Eindhoven, Fez, Lille, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Marrakesh, Milan-Orio al Serio, Nantes, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Seville Seasonal: Agadir, Cagliari, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gothenburg-City, Malaga, Nador, Palermo, Tangier, Tours, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia, Weeze	2
Sky Airlines	Antalya	2
Spanair	Barcelona	1
Syrian Air	Damascus	1
TAP Portugal operated by Portugália	Lisbon	1
Transavia.com France	Marrakech, Monastir	2
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir, Tunis	1
Twin Jet	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Metz/Nancy, Milan-Malpensa	4
Vueling	Barcelona [begins 25 March]

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
DHL Aviation operated by Exin	Nice
FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
TNT Airways operated by Icelandair	Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Other facilities

The Marignane airport is also the main base of the aerial firefighting division of Civil security (French Ministry of the Interior).^[5] The head office of Eurocopter is located on the airport property.^[6]

Hydroplane base

In the 1920s and 1930s, Marignane was one of France's main points of operation for flying boats. It even briefly served as a terminal for PanAm's Clipper flying boats.^[7] Some other hydroplane operators were Aéropostale and Air Union, the latter moving over from Antibes in 1931. Marignane was also a production site for hydroplanes by Lioré et Olivier.

Accidents and incidents

• On 6 February 1989 Inter Cargo Service Flight 3132, operated by Vickers Vanguard F-GEJE crashed on takeoff. 3 crew died, no passengers carried.^[8]

See also

	France portal
	Aviation portal

• Air France Flight 8969

References

1. ^ ^{a b} LFML – Marseille Provence (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 17 Nov 2011.
2. ^ Marseille Provence Airport (official site)
3. ^ Marseille Provence Airport: About the Airport
4. ^ http://www.marseille.aeroport.fr/fra/aero/aero_dc.jsp
5. ^ http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.435307,5.224321&spn=0.005602,0.013937&t=h&z=17
6. ^ "Legal Notice and Disclaimer." Eurocopter. Retrieved on 8 December 2010. "[...]whose registered Office is located Aéroport International Marseille-Provence – 13725 Marignane Cedex - France"
7. ^ http://www.bluegrassairlines.com/bgas/clip01.htm
8. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890206-0. Retrieved 9 October 2009. 

External links

• Marseille Provence Airport, official site in English and French
• Aéroport de Marseille-Provence page at Union des Aéroports Français (French)
• Airport information for LFML at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Current weather for LFML at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MRS: Marseille-Marignane Airport at Aviation Safety Network