Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport

"Lyon Airport" redirects here. For the general aviation airport, see Lyon–Bron Airport.

Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (French: Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), is the international airport of Lyon, the third-biggest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It lies in Colombier-Saugnieu, 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) southeast of Lyon's city centre. The airport is directly linked to Lyon-Part-Dieu Business District thanks to the Rhônexpress shuttle's 30-minute ride.^[1]

Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry
IATA: LYS ICAO: LFLL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aéroports de Lyon (Vinci SA-Caisse des dépôts consortium)
Serves	Lyon Metropolis
Location	Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône, France
Opened	12 April 1975; 47 years ago (1975-04-12)
Focus city for	Air France Air France Hop easyJet Transavia France Twin Jet
Elevation AMSL	821 ft / 250 m
Coordinates	45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E / 45.72556°N 5.08111°E / 45.72556; 5.08111 (Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport)Coordinates: 45°43′32″N 005°04′52″E / 45.72556°N 5.08111°E / 45.72556; 5.08111 (Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport)
Website	lyonaeroports.com
Maps
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France
LFLL Location of airport in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17R/35L 4,000 13,123 Asphalt 17L/35R 2,670 8,760 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 11,739,600 Passenger change 18-19 6.4% Freight (tons) 55,404 Freight change 16-17 1.2%
Source: Union of French Airports "Statistiques 2017, Lyon Saint-Exupéry". Retrieved 25 June 2018.

History

Early years

The airport was inaugurated by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on 12 April 1975, and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the old Lyon–Bron Airport, which is now only used for general aviation.

In 1994, the LGV Rhône-Alpes high-speed rail line brought TGV service to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy of the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature.

Since 1997, the airport has been a focus city for the airline Air France.

Development since the 2000s

The airport was originally named Lyon Satolas Airport, after the nearby eponymous village, but in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on the centenary of his birth. He was a native of Lyon, and a laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, and died in World War II.

In 2013, the airport served 8,562,298 passengers, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year. Air freight increased by 22.7% to 44,820 tonnes, although overall aircraft movements dropped by 2.8% to 113,420.^[2]

Facilities

The airport consists of passenger terminals 1 and 2 which are interconnected on the landside by a central building that itself has a foot-bridge to the nearby Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry high-speed railway station and the Rhônexpress terminus.^[3] The airport also features two runways as well as cargo facilities. A total of 16,000 car spaces in four car parks (P2-P5) are available. Two of the parks are underground (P2 and P3) while the long-stay parks (P4 and P5) are located at a distance from the terminals behind the railway station.^[3]

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 consists of two parts: The older part is a two-storey, slightly curved, brick shape building which contains the check-in areas 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 as well as departure areas G and F on the upper level with the arrivals on the ground level.^[3] In 2014, Aéroports de Lyon started the construction of a new terminal expansion, which doubled the capacity and the area, with 70,000 m².^[4] Four groups took part in the tender process to design and develop the expanded Terminal 1. The bid was won by the GFC Construction company in partnership with Quille Construction (Bouygues) and Bouygues Energies & Services. The architectural practice was Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners led by Graham Stirk, Chabanne and Partners, engineers Technip TPS and Cap Ingélec, and Inddigo.^{[5][unreliable source?]} The expanded Terminal 1 opened in June 2018. It has a circular shape with check-in area 10 and additional arrivals facilities on the ground level and departure gates B and C on both upper levels.^[3] It is also connected by a tunnel to a small satellite building containing the D gates, now mainly used by easyJet and Transavia France, while the other areas serve Star Alliance carriers and Emirates, among others.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is a duplicate of the older part of Terminal 1, containing check-in areas 20 and 21 with boarding areas Q and P on the upper level and arrivals facilities on the lower level. This terminal area is mainly used by Air France.^[3]

Terminal 3 (defunct)

The former Terminal 3 was a very basic facility used by low-cost carriers. It was demolished during Terminal 1 expansion. The satellite building is still open, however; it now houses the ‘D’ gates for low cost airlines such as easyJet.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion, Rhodes
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Air Algérie	Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Béjaïa, Biskra, Constantine, Oran, Sétif, Tlemcen
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca, Fès, Tangier^[6]
Air Cairo	Seasonal: Luxor^[7]
Air Canada	Montréal–Trudeau
Air Corsica	Ajaccio, Bastia Seasonal: Calvi, Figari
Air France	Bordeaux, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Air France Hop	Biarritz, Brest, Caen, Lille, Marseille, Pau, Rennes, Strasbourg Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Brive,^[8] Calvi, Figari^[9]
Air Malta	Seasonal: Malta
Air Montenegro	Podgorica^[10]
Air Senegal	Dakar–Diass^[11]
Air Serbia	Belgrade^[12]
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
ALK Airlines	Seasonal charter: Yerevan^[13]
AnadoluJet	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen^[14]
ASL Airlines France	Algiers^[15] Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Kerkyra, Palermo, Santorini
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines	Gothenburg (begins 20 February 2023)^[16]
British Airways	London–Heathrow Seasonal: London–Gatwick^[17]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Chalair Aviation	La Rochelle, Limoges, Poitiers Seasonal: Bergerac^[18]
Corsair International	Saint-Denis de la Réunion Seasonal: Pointe-à-Pitre
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal: Split
easyJet	Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brest, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal,^[19] Lanzarote,^[20] Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Málaga (begins 3 June 2023),^[21] Marrakech, Nantes, Naples, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Venice Seasonal: Agadir,^[22] Ajaccio, Bastia, Belfast–International, Biarritz, Bristol, Calvi,^[23] Catania, Chania,^[24] Corfu,^[25] Dubrovnik, Figari, Ibiza, Manchester, Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rennes, Split
Emirates	Dubai–International
Eurowings	Düsseldorf
FLYONE Armenia	Yerevan
Iberia	Madrid
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Manchester
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda^[26]
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir,^[27] Tunis
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca, Marrakech
Royal Jordanian	Amman–Queen Alia^[28]
Sky Express	Seasonal: Heraklion^[29]
SkyUp	Seasonal: Kyiv–Boryspil (suspended)^[30]
SunExpress	Seasonal: Antalya,^[31] Izmir^[32]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Agadir, Algiers, Beirut, Béjaïa, Casablanca,^[33] Constantine, Funchal, Istanbul,^[34] Lisbon, Marrakesh, Monastir, Oran, Oujda, Porto, Tel Aviv,^[35] Tunis Seasonal: Alicante,^[36] Amman–Queen Alia,^[37] Athens, Bari, Budapest,^[38] Catania,^[39] Dakar–Diass,^[40] Djerba, Faro, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada,^[40] Ibiza,^[36] Málaga, Menorca,^[36] Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca,^[41] Rhodes,^[41] Santorini,^[41] Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda,^[42] Tenerife–South,^[40] Valencia^[41]
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Agadir, Marrakech^[43] Seasonal charter: Burgas,^[44] Djerba^[45] Heraklion, Ibiza, Kerkyra, Kos, Menorca, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Podgorica^[45] Rhodes, Tenerife South
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir, Tozeur,^[46] Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
Twin Jet	Metz/Nancy,^[47] Milan–Malpensa, Stuttgart, Zürich
Volotea	Athens, Fuerteventura,^[48] Gran Canaria,^[48] Lanzarote,^[48] Málaga,^[49] Nantes,^[50] Prague, Tenerife–South,^[48] Valencia, Venice^[50] Seasonal: Ajaccio, Alicante, Bari,^[49] Bastia, Bergamo (begins 6 April 2023),^[51] Caen,^[52] Cagliari,^[53] Corfu,^[49] Dubrovnik, Faro,^[49] Figari, Florence (begins 8 April 2023),^[54] Heraklion,^[49] Madrid (begins 7 April 2023),^[55] Menorca,^[56] Olbia,^[50] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Setif,^[49] Split
Vueling	Barcelona, Málaga Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Wizz Air	Bucharest,^[57] Cluj-Napoca, Kraków,^[58] Rome–Fiumicino,^[59] Tirana^[60] Seasonal: London–Gatwick^[61]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
ASL Airlines France^[62]	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
DHL Aviation	Brussels, Leipzig/Halle
Emirates SkyCargo^[63]	Dubai–Al Maktoum
UPS Airlines^[64]	Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at LYS airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

 

Aerial view

 

Departure gate area

Rail

The Rhônexpress tramway began operations in August 2010 and links Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu east of Lyon's city centre with Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry next to the airport in approximately 30 minutes^[65][66] using and sharing existing tracks of the Lyon tramway as well as a newly constructed route. This tramway replaced the former coach shuttle services (Satobus) that operated beforehand leaving the airport with no other public connections to the city centre.

The Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry station is also served by the LGV Rhône-Alpes high speed rail line.

Coach

Coach links connect the airport with the centre of other towns in the area including Grenoble (at least once an hour), Saint-Étienne and Chambéry. Bus operators also offer a coach shuttle service to the surrounding French ski resorts, including Tignes, Val d'Isere, Val Thorens and more.

Since January 2020, two buses from Transports en commun lyonnais are stopping at the airport:^[67]
- The bus 47, from Meyzieu, connecting with Tram line 3 (from Gare Part-Dieu) to Saint-Laurent-de-Mure, connecting with Bus line 1E (from Grange Blanche) via the airport. The line operates 7 days a week, from 5:30am to 11:45pm, every 30 minutes.
- The bus 48, from Genas to the airport.

Electric car service

The airport has an electric car sharing station. Bolloré Bluecar vehicles are available for rent.

See also

• Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport (Argentina)
• List of the busiest airports in France

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External links

  Media related to Aéroport de Lyon-St-Exupéry at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• (Union des aéroports français)