Nice Côte d'Azur Airport

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (French: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) (IATA: NCE, ICAO: LFMN) is an international airport located 3.2 NM (5.9 km; 3.7 mi) southwest^[2] of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2023, it handled 14,189,965 passengers. The airport is positioned 7 km (4 mi) west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur.

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur
IATA: NCE ICAO: LFMN
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA)
Serves	Bouches-du-Rhône and Alpes-Maritimes (France) Monaco
Focus city for	Air France easyJet
Elevation AMSL	4 m / 13 ft
Coordinates	43°39′55″N 007°12′54″E
Website	en.nice.aeroport.fr
Map
LFMN Airport in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region Show map of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur LFMN LFMN (France) Show map of France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04L/22R 2,570 8,432 Asphalt concrete 04R/22L 2,960 9,711 Asphalt concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface m ft H1 29.25 96 Asphaltic concrete H2 29.25 96 Asphaltic concrete
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 14,189,965 Passenger traffic change 17.1% Aircraft movements 157,459 Aircraft movements change 8.7%
Airport data from French AIP.[1] French AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] Statistics[3]

Due to its proximity to Monaco, which is located 20 km (12 mi) away to the northeast, it also serves as that city-state's airport, with helicopter service linking the principality and airport.^[4] Some airlines market Monaco as a destination via Nice Airport.^[5]

Facilities

Terminal 1

Terminal 2

Control tower

The airport with Nice seen in the background

The airport covers an area of over 3.70 km² (1.43 sq mi) partially reclaimed from the sea, with 2.70 km² (1.04 sq mi) used by its two parallel runways and the three passenger terminals and freight terminal. The airport's theoretical capacity is 14 million annual passengers and 52 movements (26 landings) per hour. Terminals 1 and 2 are linked by a tram service. The route stops at the airport and connects with the city centre via the "Jean Médecin" station, and with the port via the "Port Lympia" station. Buses connect the car parks with the terminals.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 features 25 gates on a space of 52,000 m² (560,000 sq ft). It features flights to domestic, Schengen and non-Schengen destinations and has a capacity of 4.5 million passengers per year. A business center is located at Terminal 1 containing eight rooms and a conference room with a capacity of 250 people.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is the newer and larger facility and is equipped to handle flights to all destinations. There are 29 gates on a space of 57,800 m² (622,000 sq ft). The terminal has a capacity of 8.5 million passengers per year.^{[citation needed]}

Business Aviation Terminal

The Business Aviation Terminal, located next to Terminal 2, covers an area of 1,500 m² (16,000 sq ft). Opened in 2010, this terminal contains the operations rooms, VIP lounges, crew lounges and offices of several business aviation companies.^[6]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Nice:^[7]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens[8]
Aer Lingus	Dublin[9]
Air Algérie	Algiers, Constantine
Air Arabia	Fez[10][11]
airBaltic	Riga Seasonal: Tallinn, Vilnius[12]
Air Canada	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau[13]
Air Corsica	Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Air Dolomiti	Munich (begins 27 October 2024)[14]
Air France	London–Heathrow,[15] Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Algiers,[16] Athens, Bordeaux
Air Serbia	Belgrade[17]
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Amelia International	Seasonal: Brive[18]
American Airlines	Seasonal: Philadelphia[19]
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
British Airways	London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow Seasonal: London–City, London–Stansted[20]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Delta Air Lines	Seasonal: Atlanta,[21] New York–JFK
easyJet[22]	Agadir,[23] Amsterdam,[24] Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Beauvais (ends 25 October 2024),[25] Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Geneva, Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Madrid (begins 27 October 2024),[26] Manchester,[27] Marrakesh, Nantes, Naples, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Porto, Prague (begins 10 October 2024),[23] Rabat,[28] Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg (begins 28 October 2024),[29] Tenerife–South,[30] Toulouse, Venice Seasonal: Alicante,[31] Athens,[23] Bari,[32] Belfast–International, Biarritz, Catania, Chania, Edinburgh, Ibiza, Kefalonia,[33] Lanzarote (begins 2 November 2024),[34] Liverpool, Málaga,[33] Malta,[23] Mykonos, Olbia, Palermo,[35] Palma de Mallorca, Rovaniemi (begins 30 November 2024)[36]
El Al	Seasonal: Tel Aviv[37]
Emirates	Dubai–International
Etihad Airways	Seasonal: Abu Dhabi[38]
Eurowings	Düsseldorf, Hamburg Seasonal: Berlin,[39] Cologne/Bonn, Nuremberg,[40][41][42] Prague,[43] Stockholm–Arlanda,[44] Stuttgart
Finnair	Helsinki
FlyOne	Chișinău[45]
FlyOne Armenia	Yerevan[46]
Georgian Airways	Tbilisi[47]
Gulf Air	Seasonal: Bahrain, Milan–Malpensa[48]
Heli Air Monaco	Monaco[lower-alpha 1]
Iberia	Madrid Seasonal: Ibiza, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
ITA Airways	Rome–Fiumicino[49]
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Birmingham,[50] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted (ends 31 October 2025),[51] [52] Manchester
KLM	Amsterdam
Kuwait Airways	Seasonal: Kuwait City[53]
La Compagnie	Seasonal: Newark
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich[54]
Luxair	Luxembourg
Middle East Airlines	Seasonal: Beirut
Monacair	Monaco[55][lower-alpha 1]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Aalborg,[56] Bergen, Gothenburg,[56] Helsinki, Stavanger, Trondheim
Nouvelair	Monastir, Tunis
Qatar Airways	Doha[57]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair	Dublin Seasonal: London–Stansted
Saudia	Seasonal: Riyadh[58]
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg, Oslo, Stavanger
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva, Zürich
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
TAROM	Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni[59]
Transavia	Amsterdam, Tunis Seasonal: Algiers (begins 27 October 2024),[60] Beirut,[61] Dakar–Diass (begins 27 October 2024),[62] Eindhoven, Faro,[63] Monastir[64]
Tunisair	Monastir, Tunis Seasonal: Djerba
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[65]
Twin Jet	Toulouse[66]
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark[67]
Universal Air	Malta[68]
Volotea	Bordeaux, Brest, Caen,[69] Lille,[70] Luxembourg, Nantes,[71] Strasbourg Seasonal: Charleroi,[72] Palermo, Venice[73]
Vueling	Barcelona
Widerøe	Seasonal: Bergen,[74] Sandefjord[74]
Wizz Air	Belgrade,[75] Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Kraków, Rome–Fiumicino,[76] Sofia, Tirana,[77] Vienna,[78] Warsaw–Chopin[79] Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca[80]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
ASL Airlines France[81]	Marseille

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at NCE airport. See Wikidata query.

Passengers per year

Year	Passengers	Change
2018	13,850,561	04.1%
2017	13,304,782	07.1%
2016	12,427,511	03.4%
2015	12,016,730	03.1%
2014	11,660,208	00.9%
2013	11,554,251	03.3%
2012	11,189,896	07.4%
2011	10,422,073	08.5%
2010	9,603,014	02.3%
2009	9,830,987	05.3%

Ground transportation

The airport is located on the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. Since December 2018, Nice tramway line 2 connects the airport to the Port of Nice (Lympia Port) via the Grand Arénas interchange (where additionally the relocated regional train station Nice-Saint-Augustin is situated),^[82] replacing two former bus routes (98 and 99) to the airport. The tram runs every 8 minutes during the day. There's also tramway line 3 which runs from the airport to the western suburbs. Additionally, bus route 12 connects the airport with Promenade des Artes via the old town.^[82]

Société Naviplane Ferry

In 1969 an experimental and short-lived ferry service utilized two N.300 Naviplane hovercraft. The airport was connected to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco and San-Remo.^[83]

Accidents and incidents

• On 9 April 1949, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BATU of Air France overran the runway and was damaged beyond economic repair.^[84]
• On 3 March 1952, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BCUM of Air France crashed shortly after take-off; all 38 people on board died. The cause of the accident was that the aileron controls had jammed. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Nice to Orly Airport, Paris.^[85]
• On 11 September 1968, Air France Flight 1611 en route from Ajaccio, in the island of Corsica, to Nice, France crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice; all 95 on board died. A memorial is located near the airport.
• On 3 September 1979, Sterling Airways Flight 4133 an Aérospatiale Corvette (Registration: OY-SBS) crashed into the sea 1 km (0.62 mi) south of the airport on a flight from Coventry Airport to Nice. All 10 passengers and crew died in the crash.^[86]

See also

• List of the busiest airports in France

Notes

1. by helicopter

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External links

Media related to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur (official site)
• Aéroport de Nice – Côte d'Azur (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
• Current weather for LFMN at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for NCE at Aviation Safety Network
• Live Flight Information for NCE Archived 29 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine