Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport

Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport or Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée (IATA: MPL, ICAO: LFMT), also known as Fréjorgues Airport, is an airport in southern France. It is located 7 km (4 nautical miles) east-southeast of Montpellier^[1] in Mauguio, in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region in France. The airport opened in 1946, 8 years after the first flight to the area.^[3]

Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport Aéroport de Montpellier–Méditerranée
IATA: MPL ICAO: LFMT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	S.A Aéroport de Montpellier Méditerranée
Serves	Montpellier
Location	Mauguio, France
Focus city for	Transavia France
Elevation AMSL	17 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	43°34′35″N 003°57′47″E / 43.57639°N 3.96306°E / 43.57639; 3.96306
Website	montpellier.aeroport.fr
Maps
Location of Occitanie region in France
LFMT Location of airport in Occitanie region in France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12L/30R 2,600 8,530 Asphalt 12R/30L 1,100 3,609 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 1,935,631 Passenger traffic change 2.96%
Source: French AIP,^[1] Aeroport.fr^[2]

The airport carries the 10th largest number of passengers in France (over 1.18 million in 2010). A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is also located at the airport.

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of 17 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 12L/30R is 2,600 by 50 metres (8,530 ft × 164 ft) and 12R/30L is 1,100 by 30 metres (3,609 ft × 98 ft).^[1]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie	Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia	Casablanca, Fès, Nador, Oujda,^[4] Tangier
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
British Airways	London–Gatwick^[5]
Discover Airlines	Seasonal: Frankfurt^[6]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, London–Gatwick Seasonal: London–Luton, Palma de Mallorca (begins 1 May 2024)^[7]
KLM	Amsterdam
Luxair	Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo (begins 22 June 2024)^[8]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda^[9]
Transavia	Algiers,^[10] Lisbon, Madrid,^[11] Marrakesh, Nantes, Oran, Paris–Orly,^[12] Rennes, Seville, Tunis^[13] Seasonal: Athens, Berlin,^[14] Heraklion, Istanbul (begins 5 April 2024),^[15] Rome–Fiumicino,^[10] Rotterdam/The Hague
Volotea	Brest, Caen, Lille, Nantes, Strasbourg Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Deauville (begins 5 April 2024),^[16] Menorca (begins 31 May 2024)^[17]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at MPL airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

• Bus route 620 (Airport Shuttle Bus or Navette in French) runs between Place de l’Europe tramway station and the Airport along Avenue Pierre Mendès-France.^[18]
• ÉcoPôle and Parc Expo are the closest Montpellier tramway stations, but the stations are not close to the passenger terminal.

Airlife magazine

Montpellier Airport's quarterly magazine, Airlife, began publication in 2016. Published by Lysagora Media, the magazine has articles on travel, design, lifestyle and leisure as well as information about the airport and its flight schedules.^[19][20]

Accidents and incidents

• On 24 September 2022, West Atlantic flight SWN5745 suffered damages after skidding off the runway 12L whilst landing during a storm by night. The Boeing 737-400 involved ended up in the Étang de l'Or, a lake situated 180 meters South of the runway. None of the three occupants were injured.^[21]

References

1. LFMT – MONTPELLIER MÉDITERRANÉE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 25 January 2024.
2. "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
3. "Vous êtes perdu ?".
4. "AIR ARABIA MAROC NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 05FEB23".
5. "British Airways Adds Five New Short-Haul Services to Its London Gatwick Network". 4 January 2023.
6. "Eurowings Discover adds further two new routes to summer 2023 schedule". 21 December 2022.
7. "EasyJet annonce un Montpellier – Palma de Majorque – Air Journal". December 2023.
8. "Norwegian NS24 Network Additions – 14NOV23". AeroRoutes.
9. "SAS NS23 EUROPEAN NETWORK ADDITIONS". Aeroroutes. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
10. Liu, Jim. "Transavia France launches Montpellier base in April 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
11. https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/
12. "Aéroport de Montpellier : Transavia ouvre une ligne vers Paris-Orly cet hiver".
13. Liu, Jim. "Transavia France adds Montpellier – Tunisia routes in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
14. Duclos, François (17 March 2021). "Transavia France : plein de nouveautés dont la Suède" [Transavia France: Many New Features Including Sweden]. Air Journal (in French). Archived from the original on 14 September 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
15. "Transavia France NS24 Network Additions – 19DEC23". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
16. "VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avión a Europa". 24 December 2023.
17. "4 (Bonnes) raisons de découvrir Minorque". 6 December 2023.
18. "Accès en transports publics à l'Aéroport de Montpellier". Aéroport Montpellier Méditerranée (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2023.
19. Montpellier Airport. "Airlife Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
20. OCLC 971614134
21. "Accident d'un Boeing 737 à l'aéroport de Montpellier".

External links

  Media related to Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• (official site) (in English)
• (official site) (in French)
• (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
• Airport information for LFMT at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for LFMT at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MPL at Aviation Safety Network