Lille Airport

Airport in Lesquin, France

Lille Airport

Aéroport de Lille

* IATA: LIL
* ICAO: LFQQ

Summary
Airport type| Public
Operator| Socièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
Serves| Lille, France
Location| Lesquin, France
Elevation AMSL| 157 ft / 48 m
Coordinates| 50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E﻿ / ﻿50.56333°N 3.08694°E﻿ / 50.56333; 3.08694
Website| lille.aeroport.fr
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Runways
| Direction | Length  | Surface

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m  | ft
08/26  | 2,825  | 9,268  | Asphalt
02/20  | 1,580  | 5,184  | Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
| Passengers| 2,078,549

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Passenger change 17-18| 9.1%

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]

Airlines| Destinations

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Aegean Airlines |  Seasonal: Athens,[6] Heraklion[7]
Air Algérie |  Algiers
Seasonal: Constantine,[citation needed] Oran[citation needed]
Air Arabia |  Seasonal: Oujda[8][better source needed]
Air Montenegro |  Seasonal: Podgorica[9]
ASL Airlines France |  Algiers
Seasonal: Toulon[10]
EasyJet |  Bordeaux,[11] Geneva,[11] Nice[11]
Seasonal: Alicante,[12] Palma de Mallorca[13]
Nouvelair |  Seasonal: Djerba,[citation needed] Monastir,[citation needed] Tunis[citation needed]
Ryanair |  Fès,[14] Porto[11]
Seasonal: Marseille[11]
Sky Express |  Seasonal: Heraklion[citation needed]
Transavia |  Dakar[15]
TUI fly Belgium[16] |  Seasonal: Agadir,[citation needed] Casablanca,[citation needed] Marrakesh,[citation needed] Nador,[citation needed] Oujda[citation needed]
Volotea |  Agadir,[17] Ajaccio,[18] Barcelona,[19] Bastia,[18] Bordeaux,[20] Montpellier,[18] Nice,[18] Perpignan,[18] Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[21] Venice[22]
Seasonal: Athens,[18] Calvi,[23] Comiso,[24] Corfu,[25] Dubrovnik,[18] Faro,[18][19] Figari,[18] Fuerteventura,[26] Heraklion,[18] Kalamata[27][better source needed], Lanzarote,[26] Málaga,[18][19] Marrakesh,[26] Menorca,[18][19] Olbia,[28] Palermo,[18][29] Palma de Mallorca,[18][23] Patras,[30] Rhodes,[18][25] Rodez,[31] Split,[18][29] Tenerife–South,[26] Varna[18][23]

## Statistics

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## 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. ^ a b c Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
2. ^ a b c LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 10 July 2025.
3. ^ Airport information for LIL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
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. ^ "AEGEAN AIRLINES ADDS IRAKLEION – LILLE SERVICE IN NS23".
8. ^ "AIR ARABIA MAROC NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 05FEB23".
9. ^ "Air Montenegro NS25 Network Additions – 04MAY25". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
10. ^ "ASL Airlines France NS25 Algiers Service Changes". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
11. ^ a b c d e "Lille, France". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 562. August 2023. ISSN 1466-8718.
12. ^ Liu, Jim (23 April 2024). "easyJet NS24 Network Additions – 21APR24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
13. ^ "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
14. ^ Liu, Jim (6 March 2025). "Ryanair NS25 Network Additions – 02MAR25". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
15. ^ Liu, Jim (7 May 2024). "Transavia France NW24 New Routes Addition – 05MAY24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
16. ^ "Flight plan". tui.be.
17. ^ "Volotea NW24 Network Additions – 11AUG24".
18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Lille, France LIL". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 597–599\. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718.
19. ^ a b c d "Seven new routes from Lille Airport". 28 April 2022.
20. ^ "Bordeaux, France BOD". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 157–159\. May 2025. ISSN 1466-8718.
21. ^ "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse". 24 March 2021.
22. ^ "Dieci anni di Volotea a Venezia e ora nuove rotte: Da ottobre i voli per Nizza e Lille". 5 April 2022.
23. ^ a b c "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
24. ^ "VOLOTEA ANNUNCIA LA NUOVA ROTTA COMISO – LILLE". italiavola.com (in Italian). 17 December 2024.
25. ^ a b "Volotea : Kalamata, Rhodes et Corfou au départ de Lille en 2024 – Air Journal". 16 November 2023.
26. ^ a b c d "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
27. ^ "Volotea: Πτήσεις από Λιλ και Λυών προς Καλαμάτα-Σύνδεση και με Πορτογαλία". 15 November 2023.
28. ^ "Volotea apre tre nuove rotte da Olbia per l'estate 2023". December 2022.
29. ^ a b "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
30. ^ https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/volotea/volotea-expands-in-lille-with-new-greek-route-for-2025/
31. ^ "Volotea NS25 Network Change – 30MAR25". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 2 April 2025.

## External links

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Media related to Lille Lesquin International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

* Current weather for LFQQ at NOAA/NWS
* Accident history for LIL at Aviation Safety Network

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