Lille Airport

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.

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
Website	lille.aeroport.fr
Map
LFQQ Location of Lille Airport Show map of Nord-Pas-de-Calais LFQQ LFQQ (France) Show map of France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt 02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 2,078,549 Passenger change 17-18 9.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

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.

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens,[6] Heraklion[7]
Air Algérie	Algiers Seasonal: Constantine, Oran
Air Arabia	Seasonal: Oujda[8]
ASL Airlines France	Algiers Seasonal: Toulon (begins 4 April 2025)[9]
easyJet	Bordeaux, Geneva, Nice, Toulouse Seasonal: Alicante,[10] Palma de Mallorca[11]
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Ryanair	Fès, Porto Seasonal: Marseille
Sky Express	Seasonal: Heraklion
Transavia	Dakar[12]
TUI fly Belgium[13]	Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Oujda
Volotea	Agadir,[14] Ajaccio, Barcelona,[15] Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice, Perpignan, Rome–Fiumicino, Toulouse,[16] Venice[17] Seasonal: Athens, Calvi,[18] Comiso (begins 8 April 2025),[19] Corfu,[20] Dubrovnik,[21] Faro,[15] Figari, Fuerteventura,[22] Heraklion, Kalamata,[23] Lanzarote,[22] Málaga,[15] Marrakesh,[22] Menorca,[15] Olbia,[24] Palermo,[25] Palma de Mallorca,[18] Patras (begins 9 April 2025),[26] Rhodes,[20] Split,[25] Tenerife–South,[22] Varna[18]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at LIL airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

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

References

1. Lille Airport (Aéroport de Lille) Archived 13 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, official website
2. LFQQ – Lille Lesquin. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 23 January 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. "ASL Airlines France NS25 Algiers Service Changes". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
10. "EasyJet operará 11 nuevas rutas gracias a la apertura de la base de operaciones".
11. "EasyJet launches new flights from Lille to Palma de Mallorca". 7 March 2022.
12. Liu, Jim (7 May 2024). "Transavia France NW24 New Routes Addition – 05MAY24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
13. "Flight plan". tui.be.
14. "Volotea NW24 Network Additions – 11AUG24".
15. "Seven new routes from Lille Airport". 28 April 2022.
16. "Aérien : Volotea : Lille relié à Nantes, Nice et Toulouse". 24 March 2021.
17. "Dieci anni di Volotea a Venezia e ora nuove rotte: Da ottobre i voli per Nizza e Lille". 5 April 2022.
18. "Volotea : Trois nouvelles destinations au départ de Lille-Lesquin". 23 February 2022.
19. "VOLOTEA ANNUNCIA LA NUOVA ROTTA COMISO – LILLE". italiavola.com (in Italian). 17 December 2024.
20. "Volotea : Kalamata, Rhodes et Corfou au départ de Lille en 2024 – Air Journal". 16 November 2023.
21. "Destinations Guide". 20 December 2023.
22. "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
23. "Volotea: Πτήσεις από Λιλ και Λυών προς Καλαμάτα-Σύνδεση και με Πορτογαλία". 15 November 2023.
24. "Volotea apre tre nuove rotte da Olbia per l'estate 2023". December 2022.
25. "Palermo, Volotea annuncia la nuova rotta per Lille". 2 March 2022.
26. https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/volotea/volotea-expands-in-lille-with-new-greek-route-for-2025/

External links

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