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Lille Airport
Aéroport de Lille
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSocièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
ServesLille, France
LocationLesquin, France
Elevation AMSL157 ft (48 m)
Coordinates50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694
Websitelille.aeroport.fr
Map
LFQQ is located in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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Location of Lille Airport
LFQQ is located in France
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LFQQ (France)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt
02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers2,078,549
Passenger change 17-18Increase9.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

Lille Airport[1] (French: Aéroport de Lille[1]) (IATA: LIL[3], ICAO: LFQQ[2]) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille,[2] a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department. The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille.[clarification needed]

It is the 12th busiest French airport by number of passengers: around 970,000 in 2001 and 1,397,637 in 2012.[4] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.[citation needed]

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Lille Airport:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens,[6] Heraklion[7]
Air Algérie Algiers,[8] Constantine,[9] Oran,[9]
Air Montenegro Seasonal: Podgorica[10]
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Algiers,[11] Béjaïa,[11] Djerba,[12] Oran,[11] Sétif,[11] Tlemcen,[11] Toulon[13]
easyJet Bordeaux,[14] Geneva,[14] Marrakesh,[15] Nice,[14] Prague (begins 28 October 2026)[16]
Seasonal: Alicante,[17] Basel/Mulhouse,[18] Palma de Mallorca[19]
Nouvelair Djerba,[20] Monastir,[21] Tunis[21]
Ryanair Fès,[22] Porto[23]
Seasonal: Marseille[24]
Sky Express Heraklion[25]
Transavia Dakar–Diass,[26] Marrakesh[27]
TUI Agadir,[28] Casablanca,[28] Marrakesh,[28] Oujda[28]
Volotea Agadir,[29] Ajaccio,[30] Barcelona,[31] Bastia,[30] Bordeaux,[30] Montpellier,[32] Nice,[30] Perpignan,[30] Rome–Fiumicino,[30] Toulouse,[33] Venice[34]
Seasonal: Athens,[30] Burgas,[35] Bari,[36] Biarritz,[37] Calvi,[38] Comiso,[39] Corfu,[40] Dubrovnik,[41] Faro,[31] Figari,[30] Fuerteventura,[42] Gran Canaria,[30] Heraklion,[30] Lanzarote,[42] Madrid,[32] Málaga,[31] Marrakesh,[42] Menorca,[31] Murcia,[43] Olbia,[44] Palermo,[45] Palma de Mallorca,[38] Patras,[46] Rhodes,[40] Rodez,[47] Seville,[48] Split,[45] Tenerife–South,[42] Toulon,[49] Varna,[38] Valencia[50]

Statistics

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PassengersYear0500,0001,000,0001,500,0002,000,0002,500,00019601970198019902000201020202030PassengersAnnual passenger traffic

Ground transportation

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There is a shuttle bus between the airport and Lille Flandres railway station.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
  2. 1 2 3 LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 9 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "Airport information for LIL". DAFIF. October 2006 – via Great Circle Mapper.
  4. ↑ Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2009 Archived 4 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ lille.aeroport.fr - Flight Search retrieved 11 May 2017
  6. ↑ "Aegean becomes twelfth airline to serve Lille Airport". 9 February 2023.
  7. ↑ Orban, André (9 February 2023). "Aegean becomes twelfth airline to serve Lille Airport". Aviation24.be. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  8. ↑ شوية, محمد (24 October 2023). "Air Algérie Sets New Free Luggage Procedures". الشروق أونلاين (in Arabic). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  9. 1 2 DA LUZ, Jean (31 October 2022). "Air Algérie relance ses lignes vers Oran et Constantine au départ de Lille" (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "NAJAVE: Air Montenegro pokreće još dvije linije – zamaaero" (in Croatian). 5 September 2025. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "ASL Airlines France lance une ligne entre Lille et Toulon". Air Journal (in French). 6 January 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
  12. ↑ Ricci, Joël (17 February 2026). "Lille–Djerba : ASL Airlines France ouvre une nouvelle porte vers le Maghreb | Air Journal". Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Bédarride, Denys (10 January 2025). "Toulon : ASL Airlines France annonce l'ouverture de deux lignes au départ de l'aéroport Toulon Hyères vers Lille et une ligne internationale vers Alger". Ecomnews (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  14. 1 2 3 Orban, André (11 April 2023). "easyJet today celebrates its 5 millionth passenger at Lille Airport". Aviation24.be. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  15. ↑ "easyJet opens Marrakech base with 6 new routes and year-round flights". 16 April 2026. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Praha získá přímé spojení s Lille, novou linku spustí easyJet". 1 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "EasyJet reopens its base at Alicante Airport for summer 2026". 9 April 2026. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  18. ↑ Topalidou, Kyriaki (26 June 2026). "EasyJet opens new domestic route connecting northern France". connexionfrance. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  19. ↑ "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
  20. ↑ "Nouvelair lancera deux nouvelles liaisons au départ de Djerba". tunisie.co. 6 July 2026. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  21. 1 2 "Tunisie : Nouvelair renforce la France et la Belgique pour l'été". Air Journal (in French). 28 April 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
  22. ↑ Guille, Romain (1 April 2025). "Ryanair lance une nouvelle liaison entre Lille et Fès" (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  23. ↑ "Ryanair lanza una campaña promocional con vuelos de verano a partir de 14,99 euros" (in Spanish). 2 June 2026. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  24. ↑ Noulet, Jean-François (22 June 2022). "Grève chez Brussels Airlines et Ryanair : voici les vols annulés, que faire si vous êtes impactés ? - RTBF Actus". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  25. ↑ da Luz, Jean (8 February 2022). "SKY express : nouveau programme de vols France, Belgique et Grèce pour 2022" (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  26. ↑ Citrinot, Luc (23 July 2025). "More flights to Africa with Transavia this winter". Business travel. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  27. ↑ Citrinot, Luc (19 May 2025). "More flights to Morocco with Transavia". Business travel. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  28. 1 2 3 4 Orban, André (28 January 2022). "Morocco reopens air borders on 7 February and TUIfly Belgium resumes its flights from Belgium and France". Aviation24. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  29. ↑ "Spanish Carrier Volotea to Launch New Agadir-Lille Route Next November". Morocco World News. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  30. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lassetter, Jon (13 July 2022). "Volotea adds second aircraft to Lille base; now selling flights to 24 destinations in seven countries". Air Service One. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  31. 1 2 3 4 "Seven new routes from Lille Airport". 28 April 2022.
  32. 1 2 "Volotea expands with new French bases and Spanish routes". 8 February 2026. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  33. ↑ "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse". 24 March 2021.
  34. ↑ "Dieci anni di Volotea a Venezia e ora nuove rotte: Da ottobre i voli per Nizza e Lille". 5 April 2022.
  35. ↑ "Burgas Airport Strengthens Its Air Connectivity with France through New Volotea Route". Bulgarian News Agency. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  36. ↑ "Volotea opens new base in Bari, here are the destinations for summer 2024". The Flight Club. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  37. ↑ Dagouret, David (3 November 2025). "Volotea lance une liaison entre Lille et Biarritz" (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  38. 1 2 3 "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
  39. ↑ "VOLOTEA ANNUNCIA LA NUOVA ROTTA COMISO – LILLE". italiavola.com (in Italian). 17 December 2024.
  40. 1 2 "Volotea : Kalamata, Rhodes et Corfou au départ de Lille en 2024 – Air Journal". 16 November 2023.
  41. ↑ Thomas, Mark (27 December 2023). "Volotea Unveils Exciting Expansion: Four New Summer Routes to Croatia's Coastal Gems - The Dubrovnik Times". Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  42. 1 2 3 4 "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
  43. ↑ Orban, André (11 March 2026). "Volotea expands European network with four new routes from Spain". Aviation24.be. Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  44. ↑ "Volotea apre tre nuove rotte da Olbia per l'estate 2023". December 2022.
  45. 1 2 "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
  46. ↑ https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/volotea/volotea-expands-in-lille-with-new-greek-route-for-2025/
  47. ↑ Morelli, Manon (5 March 2025). "Volotea lance une nouvelle ligne au départ de Lille". TourMaG.com, le média spécialiste du tourisme francophone (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  48. ↑ Casey, David (18 May 2026). "Routes Insights: Volotea, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings". Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  49. ↑ Rongier, Luc (4 July 2026). "Volotea relie le Sud au Nord de la France avec des vols à partir de 39 €". Ulysse News (in French). Retrieved 6 July 2026.
  50. ↑ "Volotea Announces Direct Route Between Valencia and Lille Starting May 2026". Aviacion al Dia. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
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