Toulouse–Blagnac Airport

Toulouse–Blagnac Airport (French: Aéroport de Toulouse–Blagnac) (IATA: TLS, ICAO: LFBO) is an international airport located 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) west northwest of Toulouse, partially in Blagnac, both communes of the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of France. In 2017, the airport served 9,264,611 passengers.^[2] As of April 2017, the airport featured flights to 74 destinations, mostly in Europe and Northern Africa with a few additional seasonal long-haul connections.^[3]

Toulouse Blagnac Airport Aéroport de Toulouse – Blagnac
IATA: TLS ICAO: LFBO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Toulouse
Operator	Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Toulouse
Serves	Toulouse Métropole
Location	Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, France
Opened	1 September 1939; 85 years ago (1939-09-01)
Hub for	Airbus Industrie
Focus city for	Air France easyJet Ryanair Volotea
Elevation AMSL	497 ft / 151 m
Coordinates	43°38′06″N 001°22′04″E
Website	toulouse.aeroport.fr
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14R/32L 3,500 11,483 Asphalt concrete 14L/32R 3,000 9,843 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 9,264,611 Passenger traffic change 14.6% Aircraft movements 95,192 Aircraft movements change 2.2%
Source: French AIP[1] French AIP at EUROCONTROL<[citation needed]

Both Airbus and ATR manufacture aircraft at nearby facilities and test them from the airport.

The airport covers 780 hectares (1,927 acres) of land.^[4]

Facilities

Aerial view of the airport with the Airbus factory site in the foreground

Departures area

Terminal

The airport consists of one passenger terminal divided into four halls which provide 68 counters and 34 gates on 100,000-square-metre (1,100,000 sq ft) floor space:^[5]

• Hall A features 14 check-in counters and eight aircraft stands for regional aircraft on domestic services.
• Hall B is the oldest area, opened in 1978, and contains 16 check-in counters and 10 gates.
• Hall C is equipped with 24 counters and 6 boarding gates for European destinations.
• Hall D is the newest addition to the airport, opened in 2010, and is used for international and long-haul services with 14 check-in counters and 10 boarding gates.

Runways

The airport is at an elevation of 499 feet (152 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt-paved runways: 14R/32L is 3,500 by 45 metres (11,483 ft × 148 ft) and 14L/32R is 3,000 by 45 metres (9,843 ft × 148 ft).^[1]

A Concorde formerly operated by Air France with the registration F-BVFC is preserved at the Aeroscopia Museum near the airport.^{[citation needed]} Airbus and ATR utilize runway 32L/14R for flight testing and delivery flights, while runway 32R/14L is used by commercial flights coming in to Toulouse (Airbus also uses this runway for formation flights).^{[citation needed]} Also, the Airbus Delivery Center is on the runway 32L/14R side.

Ownership

Toulouse–Blagnac Airport SA is a limited liability company; the share capital is €148,000 and it has authority to operate the airport until 2046 under a franchise agreement awarded by the French government. The current CEO is Philippe Crébassa.^[6]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Toulouse:^[3]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin
Air Algérie	Algiers, Oran Seasonal: Constantine
Air Arabia	Casablanca, Fès
Air Canada	Montréal–Trudeau
Air Corsica	Ajaccio, Bastia Airport
Air France	Lyon,[7] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[8] Paris–Orly[7]
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
APG Airlines	Lorient[9]
British Airways	London–Heathrow[10]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[11]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Bristol, Geneva, Lille, Lyon, Marrakesh, Milan–Malpensa,[12] Nantes, Nice, Paris–Orly, Porto, Rennes Seasonal: Berlin, Faro,[13] London–Gatwick, Palma de Mallorca
Iberia	Madrid[14]
KLM	Amsterdam[15]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen,[16] Oslo (begins 14 June 2025)[17]
Nouvelair	Djerba,[18] Tunis
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair	Agadir,[19] Alicante, Bergamo,[20] Bristol (begins 3 May 2025),[21] Budapest,[22] Charleroi, Dublin, Fès, Kraków,[23] Lisbon, London–Stansted, Malta, Manchester (begins 31 March 2025),[21] Marrakesh, Oujda, Paphos,[24] Porto,[25] Rabat,[26] Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Tangier,[19] Tenerife–South,[27] Treviso,[28] Valencia Seasonal: Bari,[29][30] Birmingham,[31][32] Bologna,[33] Corfu,[34] Edinburgh,[32] Faro,[35] Figari,[36][better source needed] Ibiza, Luxembourg,[32][37] Menorca, Nador,[38][32] Naples,[32] Palma de Mallorca, Trapani
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Ajaccio, Bastia, Brest, Dakar, Dubai–Al Maktoum[39]
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol,[40] Glasgow (begins 21 December 2025),[41] London–Gatwick, Manchester
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[42]
Twin Jet	Metz/Nancy, Rennes[43]
Volotea	Lille,[44] Nantes, Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Venice Seasonal: Ajaccio, Athens,[45] Bari,[46] Bastia, Caen, Catania, Corfu, Dubrovnik,[47] Faro,[48] Figari, Florence,[49] Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria,[50] Hannover,[51] Heraklion, Lanzarote, Madrid,[47] Málaga, Olbia,[52] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Split

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines[53]	Cologne-Bonn Airport

Airlines	Destinations
Swiftair [54]	Bucharest, Paris
Maersk Air[55]	Lyons
FedEx Feeder[2]	Paris-CDG
DHL Aviation[56]	Lyons

Access

Tram connection to the airport

Tram

Since April 2015, the T2 tram line connects Toulouse with the airport every 15 minutes.^[57] The tram connects with metro ligne A at Arènes and metro ligne B at Palais de Justice. It takes about 35 minutes with a change to go to the city center by tram.

Bus and coach

Shuttle buses to Toulouse city centre stop outside Hall B every 20 minutes. Faster than the tram, they take approximately 20 minutes to reach the city centre, stopping at Compans-Caffarelli and Jeanne d'Arc (both on Metro Line B), Jean Jaurès (Metro Line A and B) and at Toulouse-Matabiau railway station.^[58] Three daily coach services^[59] connect Toulouse–Blagnac Airport to Andorra, which does not have its own commercial airport.

Accidents and incidents

• On 29 January 1988, Inter Cargo Service Flight 1004, operated by Vickers Vanguard F-GEJF, crashed when takeoff was attempted with only three fully operable engines.^[60]
• On 17 June 1988, the prototype ATR 42-200, registered as F-WEGA, crashed shortly after lift off while performing an engine failure test. All three crew members survived.^[61][62]
• On 30 June 1994, an Airbus A330-300 performing a test flight crashed shortly after takeoff, due to a series of mistakes while conducting a flight test simulating an engine failure. All seven people on board died in the accident.^[63]
• On 15 November 2007, a brand-new Airbus A340-600 due to be delivered to Etihad Airways ran up and over the top of a concrete sloped blast-deflection wall during an engine test at the Airbus factory at the airport. This was due to the crew not following proper test procedures, raising all four engines to maximum thrust while the wheels were un-chocked. The attempt to steer away from the wall resulted in decreased braking power. Five people were injured and the aircraft was written off.^[64][65]

See also

• List of the busiest airports in France
• Boeing Everett Factory (in Snohomish County Airport) — in Washington state, United States

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External links

Media related to Toulouse Blagnac International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Aéroport de Toulouse – Blagnac (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
• Radar Toulouse (Realtime flight tracker)
• Current weather for LFBO at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for TLS at Aviation Safety Network
• LiveATC.net (Toulouse)