Brest Bretagne Airport
| Brest Bretagne Airport Aéroport de Brest Bretagne | |||||||||||||||
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| IATA: BES – ICAO: LFRB | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Chamber of Commerce | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Brest, France | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Guipavas | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 325 ft / 99 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°26′50″N 004°25′18″W / 48.44722°N 4.42167°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | brest.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||||||
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 Location of the Brittany region within France | |||||||||||||||
  LFRB Location of airport in the Brittany region | |||||||||||||||
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Source: French AIP[1] | |||||||||||||||
Brest Bretagne Airport (French: Aéroport de Brest Bretagne) (IATA: BES, ICAO: LFRB), formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an international airport serving Brest, France. It is located in the commune of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère.[1]
Overview
Though the main operator is Air France (and subsidiariy HOP!), serving for the most part Paris, other scheduled services are offered elsewhere in France and to the United Kingdom. The aggressive efforts the Chamber of Commerce conducted allowed the airport to grow dramatically over the past decade thanks to charter airlines, as can be seen below.
In the summer of 2011, long-due replacement of the ILS all-weather landing system caused numerous aborted landings/re-routing of passenger jets when foggy conditions occurred, affecting all companies operating to/from this airport.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Heraklion[2] |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly Seasonal: Marseille |
| Chalair Aviation | Bordeaux |
| easyJet | Lyon |
| Finist'air | Ushant |
| Flybe | Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton |
| Fly KISS | Lille |
| HOP! | Lyon, Nice, Paris-Orly |
| Ryanair | Marseille |
| TUIfly Belgium | Marrakesh, Toulon |
| Volotea | Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Toulouse[3] |
| Vueling | Seasonal: Barcelona |
Statistics[4]
| Year | Passengers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 614 023 | |
| 1998 | 661 523 |  7.7% |
| 1999 | 719 014 | 8.7% |
| 2000 | 748 060 | 4.0% |
| 2001 | 719 774 |  3.8% |
| 2002 | 739 843 | 2.8% |
| 2003 | 704 237 | 4.8% |
| 2004 | 700 170 | 0.6% |
| 2005 | 775 079 | 10.7% |
| 2006 | 817 456 | 5.5% |
| 2007 | 850 433 | 4.0% |
| 2008 | 874 747 | 2.9% |
| 2009 | 881 500 | 0.8% |
| 2010 | 919 404 | 4.8% |
| 2011 | 990 927 | 7.8% |
| 2012 | 1 070 461 | 8.0% |
| 2013 | 1 003 836 | 6.2% |
| 2014 | 998 393 | 0.5% |
| 2015 | 1 000 192 | 0.2% |
References
- 1 2 LFRB – BREST GUIPAVAS. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 8 December 2016.
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/12/a3-bes-s16/
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/20/v7-s16update2/
- ↑ "Union des Aéroports Français". www.aeroport.fr. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
External links
Media related to Brest Bretagne airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Brest Bretagne Airport (official site) (English)
- Aéroport de Brest Bretagne (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
- Airport information for LFRB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
- Current weather for LFRB at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for BES at Aviation Safety Network