Liège Airport
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IATA: LGG – ICAO: EBLG
 LGG
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public & Military | ||
| Owner | Walloon government | ||
| Operator | Liege Airport s.a. | ||
| Location | Liège | ||
| Hub for | TNT Airways El Al Cargo |
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| Elevation AMSL | 659 ft / 201 m | ||
| Coordinates | 50°38′15″N 05°26′36″E / 50.6375°N 5.44333°E | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05R/23L | 12,139 | 3,700 | Asphalt |
| 05L/23R | 7,677 | 2,340 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2011) | |||
| Freight (tonnes) | 674,469 | ||
| Passengers | 309,206 | ||
Liège Airport (IATA: LGG, ICAO: EBLG), also called Liège-Bierset, is an important cargo airport in Belgium. It was at the end of 2011 the 7th biggest cargo airport in Europe. Liège airport is the biggest cargo airport in Belgium and the third biggest for passengers after Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport.[1]
Liège is located in the centre of the golden triangle Paris - Amsterdam - Frankfurt that handles 66% of European freight, 75% when taken together with London.
The airport is located in Grâce-Hollogne, Liège Province, north-west of the city of Liège, in the east of Belgium. It is mainly used for freight operation but also serves more than 23 destinations for passengers (mainly charters).
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[edit] Cargo activity
Liège Airport is the world hub of TNT Airways, and the European hub of CAL Cargo Air Lines, El Al Cargo, Ethiopian Cargo and Avient Aviation.
The airport is also used as a regular refuelling stop on New York City - Middle East routes by Kalitta Air (including the Newark - Baghdad route for US mail).
[edit] Passenger activity
Last year (2010) : 309,206 passengers
[edit] Airlines and destinations
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[edit] Passenger airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Belle Air | Pristina, Tirana |
| Jet4you operated by Jetairfly | Tétouan [begins 15 June 2012] |
| Jetairfly | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
[edit] Charter airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Freebird Airlines | Antalya |
| Jetairfly | Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Djerba, Enfidha, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kos, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodos, Tenerife-South |
| Nouvelair | Monastir |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium | Agadir, Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Enfidha, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Marrakech, Monastir, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife-South |
| Tunisair | Enfidha |
[edit] Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Africa West Airlines | Lomé |
| Avient Aviation | Abuja, Entebbe, Harare, Kano, Lagos, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire, Port Harcourt |
| CAL Cargo Air Lines | Larnaca, New York-JFK, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| El Al Cargo | New York-JFK, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| Ethiopian Airlines Cargo | Addis Ababa, Cairo, Dubai, Hong Kong, Khartoum, Luxembourg |
| FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors | Dublin, Manchester |
| Icelandair Cargo | East Midlands, Humberside, Norrköping, Reykjavík-Keflavík |
| Kalitta Air | Bahrain, New York-JFK, Newark |
| Nightexpress | Frankfurt |
| Southern Air | Dover Air Force Base |
| TNT Airways | Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bergamo, Berlin-Tegel, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brno, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Catania, Delhi, Dubai, Dublin, Budapest, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jönköping, Katowice, Larnaca, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Stansted, Lyon, Madrid, Malmö, Marseille, Munich, Norwich, Nurenberg, Nottingham, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Shanghai-Pudong, Shannon, Shenzhen, Singapore, Tallinn, Tangier, Toulouse, Turku, Västerås, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Örebro |
| TNT Airways operating by ABX Air | Halifax, New York-JFK, Reykjavík-Keflavík |
| TNT Airways operating by Ukraine International | Kiev-Boryspil, Vienna |
[edit] Other facilities
Avient Aviation has its Continental Europe offices on the airport property.[2][3]
[edit] Transportation
The airport is located next to the E42 (exit 3), close to an important highway junction.
[edit] By bus
- A special bus (number 57) links the airport to Liège main train station (Liège-Guillemins) where connections can be made for local, national and international high speed trains.
This bus operates only on week days.
- LIEGE STATION: 7.20 8.20 10.20 12.20 14.20 16.20 17.20
- LIEGE AIRPORT: 7.36 8.36 10.36 12.36 14.36 16.36 17.36
- LIEGE AIRPORT, TNT: 7.40 8.40 10.40 12.40 14.40 16.40 17.40
- * TEC website
- Bus number 53 goes to Liège city centre (Place Saint-Lambert).[4]
[edit] By car (GPS)
Rue de l’Aéroport B-4460 Grâce-Hollogne Belgium
50° 38' 13 N - 5° 26' 38 E
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- (French) (English) (Dutch) (German) Liège Airport (official site)
- (Chinese) (English) Liège Airport (official site)
- (English) Up-to-date map and information on scramble.nl
- Airport information for EBLG at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
- ^ 2009 report
- ^ "Welcome." Avient Aviation. Retrieved on 8 August 2011. "With head office in Harare, Zimbabwe, Avient has two further offices; one in continental Europe and the other in the United Kingdom."
- ^ "Contact Us." (Direct link to frame) Avient Aviation. Retrieved on 8 August 2011. "BELGIUM Liege Airport, Cargo Nord, Rue Saint Exupery 22, B-4460, Grace Hollogne, Belgium"
- ^ Liège BUS 53 : http://www.liegeairport.com/uploaded/Documents/horaire53.pdf
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