Airport serving Bordeaux, France
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French :Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac ) (IATA :BOD ,ICAO :LFBD ) is aninternational airport ofBordeaux , in southwestern France. It is situated in thecommune ofMérignac , 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within thedépartement of theGironde . It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe, Northern Africa, and Canada, and serves as a base foreasyJet andVolotea .[ 4]
The former control tower in 1964. ABritish Eagle Viscount at Bordeaux Airport in 1964. The control tower built in 2000. Foundation and early years [ edit ] Bordeaux Airport has been founded in 1912, after the French government purchased previously privately owned land. Its first non-temporary passenger terminal had been constructed in the early 1930s.[ 1]
KG 40 , the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during theOccupation of France in World War II .[ 5]
The airport underwent major expansion and refurbishment during the 1960s. The first scheduled flights toParis were operated byAir Inter in 1962 and by 1970, Bordeaux handled over 500,000 passengers. During the 70s and by 1986, the terminal building has again been expanded significantly. By 1987, it reached a capacity of 2,000,000 passengers per year.[ 1]
Development since the 1990s [ edit ] From 1994-1996 an entirely new passenger terminal was built dedicated to frequent services on the Bordeaux-Paris route, followed by a newair traffic control tower in 2000. In 2010, another terminal expansion to be used bylow-cost carriers was inaugurated - by 2014, these were responsible for 40 percent of the airport's traffic.[ 1]
In 2017, Bordeaux surpassed 6 million passengers a year for the first time.[ 1]
In May 2024,Ryanair announced it will be leaving Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport citing fee increases, leading to the termination of 40 routes.[ 6] The airline subsequently ceased all operations at the airport by November 2024.[ 7] [ 8]
Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:
Terminal A is mainly for international flights.[ 9] Terminal B , which had been inaugurated in 1996, has two levels and is principally dedicated toAir France traffic between Paris/Lyon and Bordeaux.[ 10] [ 1] Terminal billi , built in 2010 and expanded in 2015, is a separate facility forlow cost carriers . It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.[ 11] [ 1] User of Terminal billi iseasyJet .Airlines and destinations [ edit ] The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:[ 12]
Airlines Destinations Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Heraklion [ 13] Aer Lingus Dublin [ 14] Seasonal: Cork [ 15] Air Algérie Algiers ,Oran Air Arabia Fès ,[ 16] Tangier [ 17] Air Dolomiti Frankfurt [ 18] Air France Lyon ,[ 19] Paris–Charles de Gaulle [ 20] Air Transat Montréal–Trudeau [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] British Airways London–Gatwick [ 24] Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels [ 25] Chalair Aviation Brest Corsair International Seasonal: Fort-de-France (begins 15 December 2025),[ 26] Pointe-à-Pitre [ 27] easyJet Athens ,[ 28] Basel/Mulhouse ,[ 29] Bristol ,[ 30] Brussels ,[ 31] Budapest ,[ 32] Essaouira ,[ 33] Faro ,[ 34] Geneva ,[ 29] Lanzarote ,[ 35] Lille ,[ 29] Lisbon ,[ 36] London–Gatwick ,[ 37] London–Luton ,[ 38] Lyon ,[ 39] Marrakesh ,[ 29] Manchester ,[ 29] Marseille ,[ 29] Milan–Malpensa ,[ 29] Nice ,[ 29] Porto ,[ 40] [ 41] Prague ,[ 42] Rabat ,[ 43] Rome–Fiumicino ,[ 44] Tenerife–South [ 29] Seasonal: Bastia ,[ 29] Belfast–International ,[ 29] Berlin ,[ 29] Birmingham ,[ 45] Catania ,[ 29] Corfu ,[ 45] Dubrovnik ,[ 46] Edinburgh ,[ 47] Funchal ,[ 48] Glasgow ,[ 49] Heraklion ,[ 29] Hurghada ,[ 50] Ibiza ,[ 29] Menorca ,[ 29] Olbia ,[ 29] Palma de Mallorca ,[ 29] Rovaniemi ,[ 51] [ 52] Vienna (begins 27 November 2025)[ 53] Iberia Madrid [ 54] KLM Amsterdam [ 55] Lufthansa Frankfurt [ 56] Seasonal: Munich [ 57] Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg [ 58] Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen ,[ 59] Oslo [ 60] Nouvelair Djerba ,[ 61] Tunis [ 62] Royal Air Maroc Casablanca ,[ 63] Marrakesh [ 64] Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen (begins 15 May 2026)[ 65] Swiss International Air Lines Zurich [ 66] [ 67] Transavia Agadir ,[ 68] Brussels ,[ 69] Istanbul ,[ 68] Marrakesh ,[ 68] Marseille ,[ 68] Porto ,[ 68] Seville [ 68] Seasonal: Boa Vista ,[ 70] Dakar–Diass ,[ 71] Dakhla ,[ 72] Eindhoven ,[ 73] Faro ,[ 74] Gran Canaria (begins 20 December 2025),[ 75] Hurghada ,[ 76] Sal ,[ 77] Tirana ,[ 78] Toulon [ 79] Tunisair Tunis [ 80] Turkish Airlines Istanbul [ 81] [ 82] Volotea Algiers ,[ 83] Athens ,[ 84] Barcelona ,[ 85] Florence ,[ 86] Lille ,[ 87] Málaga ,[ 86] Nice ,[ 86] Oran ,[ 88] Rome–Fiumicino ,[ 86] Seville ,[ 89] Strasbourg ,[ 90] [ 91] Tenerife–South ,Valencia ,[ 92] Venice [ 86] Seasonal: Agadir ,[ 93] Ajaccio ,[ 86] Alghero ,[ 92] Alicante ,[ 94] Bari ,[ 86] [ 92] Bastia ,[ 86] Calvi ,[ 88] Charleroi ,[ 86] [ 95] Corfu ,[ 86] Dubrovnik ,[ 86] Figari ,[ 86] Heraklion ,[ 96] Lanzarote ,Madrid ,[ 97] Malta ,[ 86] [ 92] Marrakesh ,[ 97] Marseille ,[ 86] [ 92] Menorca ,[ 98] Olbia ,[ 86] Palma de Mallorca ,[ 86] Prague ,[ 93] Split [ 86] Vueling Barcelona [ 99] [ 100] Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni ,[ 101] Rome–Fiumicino ,[ 102] Venice (begins 1 December 2025)[ 103]
Passengers Year 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 Passengers Annual passenger traffic Bordeaux Tramway Line A at the airportThe airport is accessible by road via theA630 autoroute (exit11b ). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving theBordeaux Saint-Jean railway station . Bus route1+ ofTransports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.
Bordeaux tramway 'sLine A links the airport with the city centre since the end of April 2023.[ 104] [ 105] [ 106]
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