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.