Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French: Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) (IATA: BOD, ICAO: LFBD) is an international airport of Bordeaux, in southwestern France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde. It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe, Northern Africa, and Canada, and serves as a base for easyJet and Volotea.^[4]

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac
IATA: BOD ICAO: LFBD
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Owner/Operator	Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM)
Serves	Bordeaux
Location	Mérignac, Gironde, France
Opened	1912; 113 years ago (1912)[1]
Operating base for	easyJet[2] Volotea
Elevation AMSL	162 ft / 49 m
Coordinates	44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W
Website	www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr
Map
BOD/LFBD Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine BOD/LFBD BOD/LFBD (France) Show map of France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05/23 3,100 10,171 Asphalt 11/29 2,415 7,923 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 7,703,143 Passenger traffic change 13.3%
Sources: Statistics[3]

History

The former control tower in 1964.

A British Eagle Viscount at Bordeaux Airport in 1964.

The control tower built in 2000.

Foundation and early years

Bordeaux Airport has been founded in 1912, after the French government purchased previously privately owned land. Its first non-temporary passenger terminal had been constructed in the early 1930s.^[1]

KG 40, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during the Occupation of France in World War II.^[5]

The airport underwent major expansion and refurbishment during the 1960s. The first scheduled flights to Paris were operated by Air Inter in 1962 and by 1970, Bordeaux handled over 500,000 passengers. During the 70s and by 1986, the terminal building has again been expanded significantly. By 1987, it reached a capacity of 2,000,000 passengers per year.^[1]

Development since the 1990s

From 1994-1996 an entirely new passenger terminal was built dedicated to frequent services on the Bordeaux-Paris route, followed by a new air traffic control tower in 2000. In 2010, another terminal expansion to be used by low-cost carriers was inaugurated - by 2014, these were responsible for 40 percent of the airport's traffic.^[1]

In 2017, Bordeaux surpassed 6 million passengers a year for the first time.^[1]

In May 2024, Ryanair announced it will be leaving Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport citing fee increases, leading to the termination of 40 routes.^[6] The airline subsequently ceased all operations at the airport by November 2024.^[7][8]

Terminals

Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:

• Terminal A is mainly for international flights.^[9]
• Terminal B, which had been inaugurated in 1996, has two levels and is principally dedicated to Air France traffic between Paris/Lyon and Bordeaux.^[10][1]
• Terminal billi, built in 2010 and expanded in 2015, is a separate facility for low cost carriers. It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.^[11][1] User of Terminal billi is easyJet.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:^[12]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens,[citation needed] Heraklion[13]
Aer Lingus	Dublin[14] Seasonal: Cork (begins 15 May 2025)[15]
Air Algérie	Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia	Fès,[16] Tangier[17]
Air Dolomiti	Frankfurt[18]
Air France	Lyon,[19] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[20] Seasonal: Ajaccio,[citation needed] Calvi,[citation needed] Figari,[citation needed] Nice[citation needed]
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau[21]
British Airways	London–Gatwick[22]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels[23]
Chalair Aviation	Brest
Corsair International	Seasonal: Fort-de-France (begins 15 December 2025),[24] Pointe-à-Pitre[25]
EasyJet	Athens,[26] Basel/Mulhouse,[27] Brussels,[28] Budapest (begins 26 October 2025),[29] Essaouira,[30] Faro,[31] Geneva,[27] Lanzarote,[32] Lille,[27] Lisbon,[33] London–Gatwick,[34] Lyon,[35] Marrakesh,[27] Marseille,[27] Milan–Malpensa,[27] Nice,[27] Porto,[36][37] Prague (begins 27 October 2025),[38] Rabat,[39] Rome–Fiumicino,[40] Tenerife–South[27] Seasonal: Ajaccio,[27] Bastia,[27] Belfast–International,[27] Berlin,[27] Birmingham (begins 1 May 2025),[41] Bristol,[42] Catania,[27] Corfu (begins 23 June 2025),[41] Dubrovnik (begins 23 June 2025),[43] Funchal,[44] Glasgow,[45] Heraklion,[27] Ibiza,[27] London–Luton,[46] Manchester,[27] Menorca,[27] Olbia,[27] Palma de Mallorca,[27] Rovaniemi[47][48]
Iberia	Madrid[49]
KLM	Amsterdam[50]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt[51] Seasonal: Munich[52]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[53]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen,[54] Oslo[55]
Nouvelair	Djerba,[56] Tunis[57]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca[58]
Swiss International Air Lines	Zurich[59][60]
Transavia	Agadir,[61] Brussels,[62] Istanbul,[61] Marrakesh,[61] Marseille,[61] Porto,[61] Seville[61] Seasonal: Boa Vista (begins 27 October 2025),[63] Dakar–Diass,[64] Eindhoven,[65] Faro (begins 7 July 2025), [66] Hurghada (begins 31 October 2025),[67] Sal (begins 27 October 2025),[68] Tirana (begins 10 July 2025),[69] Toulon (begins 9 July 2025)[70]
TUI fly Belgium[71]	Seasonal: Oujda[citation needed]
Tunisair	Tunis[72]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[73][74]
Volotea	Algiers,[75] Athens,[76] Barcelona,[77] Florence, Hamburg,[78] Lille,[79] Málaga, Nice, Oran,[80] Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg,[81] Stuttgart,[78] Tenerife–South, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Ajaccio,[citation needed] Alghero (begins 4 July 2025),[82] Alicante (begins 31 May 2025),[83] Bari (begins 31 May 2025),[82] Bastia,[citation needed] Cagliari,[citation needed] Calvi,[80] Charleroi,[84] Corfu, Dubrovnik, Figari, Heraklion,[85] Lanzarote, Madrid,[86] Malta (begins 30 May 2025),[82] Marrakesh,[86] Marseille (begins 30 May 2025),[82] Menorca (begins 6 July 2025),[87] Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Split
Vueling	Barcelona[88][89]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BOD airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

Bordeaux Tramway Line A at the airport

Road

The airport is accessible by road via the A630 autoroute (exit 11b). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station. Bus route 1+ of Transports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.

Tram

Bordeaux tramway's Line A links the airport with the city centre since the end of April 2023.^[90][91][92]

Accidents and incidents

• On 30 July 1997, Air Littoral Flight 1919, an Embraer EMB 120RT Brasilia registered as F-GEGH, crashed during approach to the airport, killing all 16 occupants onboard.^[93]

See also

• United States Air Force in France