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Marseille Provence Airport

Coordinates: 43°26′12″N 05°12′54″E / 43.43667°N 5.21500°E / 43.43667; 5.21500
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Marseille Provence Airport

Aéroport Marseille-Provence
Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) Y-14
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorMarseille Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry
ServesMarseille
LocationMarignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Opened22 October 1922; 102 years ago (1922-10-22)
Focus city forAir France
Operating base forRyanair
Elevation AMSL70 ft / 21 m
Coordinates43°26′12″N 05°12′54″E / 43.43667°N 5.21500°E / 43.43667; 5.21500
Websitemarseille-airport.com
Map
LFML is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
LFML
LFML
Airport in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region
LFML is located in France
LFML
LFML
LFML (France)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13L/31R 3,500 11,483 Asphalt
13R/31L 2,370 7,776 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers10,800,254
Passenger change 22-23Increase18.1%
Freight (tons)56,132
Sources: French [1]

Marseille Provence Airport (French: Aéroport Marseille-Provence) (IATA: MRS, ICAO: LFML) is an international airport located 27 km (17 miles) northwest of Marseille,[2] on the territory of Marignane, both communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. The airport's hinterland goes from Gap to Arles and from Toulon to Avignon.

History

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Aerial view
Check-in hall
Apron view

Formerly known as Marseille–Marignane Airport, it has been managed since 1934 by the Marseille-Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).[3]

In the 1920s and 1930s, Marignane was one of France's main points of operation for flying boats. It even briefly served as a terminal for Pan American World Airways Clipper flying boats.[4] Other flying boat operators were Aéropostale and Air Union, the latter moving over from Antibes in 1931. Marignane was also a production site for hydroplanes by Lioré et Olivier.[citation needed]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes turning back to Marignane airport with a fuel leak in chapter 8 of Wind, Sand and Stars, before setting out again for Tunis, and the fateful event that informed his later description of the crash-landing in his best-known book, The Little Prince.

In September 2006, the airport opened its new terminal MP2 for budget airlines. In 2013, the airport expanded its shopping and dining options, with 30 new shops and restaurants, among which is the first Burger King restaurant in France since 1997.[5][6]

Airlines and destinations

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Passenger

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Marseille Provence Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin[7][8]
Air Algérie Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Béjaïa, Chlef, Constantine, Jijel, Oran
Seasonal: Setif, Tlemcen[9]
Air Arabia Fes
Air Corsica Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari
Air France Lyon,[10] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[11] Paris–Orly[12]
Air Transat Montréal–Trudeau[13]
Austrian Airlines Vienna[14][15]
British Airways London–Heathrow[16]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[17]
Corsair International Dzaoudzi, Mauritius, Saint-Denis de la Réunion
easyJet Bordeaux, London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Bristol
El Al Tel Aviv
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa[18]
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf
flynas Jeddah[19]
Iberia Madrid[20]
KLM Amsterdam[21]
Korean Air Seasonal charter: Seoul–Incheon[22]
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Nouvelair Djerba, Monastir, Tunis[23]
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca, Marrakesh, Rabat[24]
Ryanair[25] Agadir, Alicante, Bergamo, Berlin,[26] Bologna, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Dublin, Eindhoven, Essaouira, Fès, Kraków, La Rochelle,[27] Lille, Limoges,[26][28] Lisbon, London–Stansted, Luxembourg,[26] Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Marrakesh, Nador, Nantes, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Palermo, Paphos, Porto,[29] Prague, Rabat, Reggio Calabria,[30] Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 July 2025),[31] Tangier, Tétouan, Valencia, Vienna, Wrocław[32]
Seasonal: Amman–Queen Alia,[26] Bari, Bristol,[33] Chania, Corfu, Edinburgh, Faro,[34] Ibiza, Lanzarote,[26] Manchester, Menorca, Naples,[34] Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes,[35] Shannon,[27][34] Tenerife–South,[26] Tirana,[36] Tours,[34] Treviso,[35] Venice, Zadar, Zagreb[37]
Shanghai Airlines Casablanca (begins 19 January 2025),[38] Shanghai–Pudong[39]
Sky Express Seasonal: Heraklion[40]
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich[41][42]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon[43]
Transavia Athens (begins 3 April 2025),[44] Beirut, Bordeaux (ends 28 March 2025),[45] Brest,[46] Cairo (begins 5 April 2025),[47] Dakar–Diass, Djerba (resumes 2 April 2025),[48] Dubai–Al Maktoum,[49] Hurghada,[50] Nantes[51]
Seasonal: Antalya,[52] Biarritz,[52][53] Funchal (begins 13 July 2025),[48] Heraklion,[52] Larnaca (begins 13 July 2025),[54] Marrakesh,[53] Monastir,[55] Sal, Tunis, Yerevan
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir, Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[56]
Twin Jet Milan–Malpensa, Pau, Strasbourg[57]
Volotea Athens, Caen, Constantine, Fuerteventura, Oran, Rennes, Setif, Strasbourg, Tlemcen, Venice
Seasonal: Annaba, Barcelona,[58] Béjaïa,[59] Bordeaux (begins 30 May 2025),[60] Brest,[61] Cagliari, Copenhagen,[62] Dubrovnik, Florence, Gran Canaria,[63] Heraklion, Lanzarote,[64] Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia,[65] Palma de Mallorca, Rijeka, Salerno (begins 6 July 2025),[66] Santorini, Split,[67] Tenerife–South[68]
Vueling Algiers, Barcelona

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines France[69] Ajaccio, Bastia, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rennes
UPS Airlines[70] Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

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It is the fifth busiest French airport by passenger traffic and third largest for cargo traffic.[71] In 2012, the airport achieved the fourth highest European passenger traffic growth, at 12.7% with 8,295,479 passengers.[72] Marseille Provence Airport serves as a focus city for Air France. In summer 2013, the airport served 132 regular destinations, the largest offer in France after the Parisian airports.[73]


Annual passenger traffic at MRS airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

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The airport is served by the Vitrolles Marseille Provence Airport rail station on the TER network. A public bus runs between the airport and the station.

Other facilities

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Accidents and incidents

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  • On 4 February 1948, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BATK of Air France was damaged beyond economical repair.[76]
  • On 30 July 1950, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BCUI of Air France was damaged beyond economic repair when its undercarriage collapsed on landing.[77]
  • On 6 February 1989, Inter Cargo Service Flight 3132, operated by Vickers Vanguard F-GEJE, crashed on takeoff. Three crew died; no passengers were on board.[78]
  • On 26 December 1994, Air France Flight 8969, with 236 people aboard, arrived in Marseille after being hijacked by four young men of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport in Algiers, Algeria, two days prior. After 15 hours on the ground and a breakdown in negotiations, the French special forces GIGN stormed the aircraft. In the ensuing firefight, all four hijackers were killed while three crew, 13 passengers, and 9 GIGN operatives were injured. The Airbus A300B2-1C F-GBEC was written off.[citation needed]

See also

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