Airport Nice Riviera

The airport Nice Riviera , is a international Aéroport located at Nice, in the the Alpes-Maritimes. It is the second airport French, after the airport of Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. He was built on a zone gained on the sea located in the prolongation of the Promenade of the English, along the VAr, on the road of the seaside close to the Arenas.

Structure

The airport of Nice is composed of two terminals: One of the architects of terminal 2 is Paul Andreu which also drew the terminals of Roissy Charles de Gaulle.

Surface

The airport Nice Riviera covers a surface of 370 Hectare S, of which:
  • 270 hectares reserved for the tracks: (2 directed parallel tracks 044°/224° separated from 309,5 meters)
  • 100 hectares reserved for the final installations: 2 momentary terminals
  • 1 terminal freight.
    • Final 1: 52.000 m ²: (National, Schengen and non-Schengen)
      • 6 telescopic footbridges
      • 25 departure gates
      • Capacity: 4,5 million passengers.
    • Final 2: 57.800 m ² (National, Schengen and not Schengen)
      • 12 telescopic and glazed footbridges
      • 27 departure gates
      • Capacity: 8,5 million passengers

  • theoretical Capacity:

    • 13 million passengers
    • 52 movements/hour (26 landings per hour)

  • Final freight:

Capacity 30.000 tonnes/an

Administration

It is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry Nice Riviera with which it State conceded it in 1956, and its director is Herve de Place, director of the airports of the Riviera (which includes/understands also the Aéroport of Cannes - close Mandelieu). This one at the end of December continues the process of transformation of the concession into airport company with in order to constituter the company of the Airports of the Riviera, an essential stage to be ready with the expiry of January 1st, 2008.

In 2006, it transported 9.948.000 passengers (+2%/2005) of which more half with international (56%). It is the 3rd Aéroport of France in term of many passengers and term of many movements after those of Paris (Roissy and Orly) and in front of Lyon St-Exupéry.

It recorded 125.000 commercial movements IFR in 2006 in fall of 14,3% compared to the record of 2000 to 146.000, in spite of a rise of the number of passengers of 5,3% (9 392.000 in 2000) what translates a better rate of filling as well as the use of larger apparatuses. The full number of movements in 2006 is approximately 200.000.

Nice remains the 1st airport in France for the low costs with 22 companies and 3.348.000 passengers.

The airport is with the third world rank which comes from a French-speaking city after the airports of the town of Paris and the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International airport of Montreal to the Canada.

Procedures of approach

There exist 3 principal procedures of approach for the planes bound for Nice.

  • the procedure RIVIERA: available to the QFU 04L and 04R, procedure based on VOR-DME CGS followed by an operation at imposed sight (MVI), created to avoid the overflight of the Cape d' Antibes, used per good weather (visibility higher than 10 km, bases clouds higher than 3000 ft) is 40% of time

  • the procedure THEY: available to the QFU 04L and 04R, used when the weather conditions do not allow the implementation of procedure RIVIERA, used approximately 40% of time

  • the procedure SALEYA: available to the QFU 22R and 22L, procedure based on VOR-DME AZR followed by an operation at imposed view (MVI), requiring weather good conditions (visibility higher than 8 km, bases clouds higher than 1500 feet).

Particular conditions of operating

The proximity of the town of Nice and the mountainous relief, just as the constraints of environment impose particular conditions of operating. It should be noted that, contrary by the vast majority of the airports having 2 parallel tracks, with Nice, for reasons of noise, the landing strip is the track nearest to the terminals (04L/22R). This implies that the planes at the beginning must cross the runway used to the landing to go towards the track of takeoff.

Since April 14th, 2005, a new device of air traffic is in place in Nice. Taking into account local topography, the near total of guidance radar in order to séquencer the planes in approach in Nice and Cannes are carried out with the top of the sea. The standards radar applied by the air-traffic controllers are the following ones: 3 Nm (1 thousand nautical = 1,852 km) horizontally and 1.000 ft (1 foot = 30 cm) vertically.

Served cities

The majority of the international airports and regional French are served starting from Nice by Air France, its subsidiary companies (Régional (European airline company), Brit Air and CCM) and Turquoise Air (until its bankruptcy in August 2006).

After the bankruptcies of the airline companies Littoral Air, AOM, Air Freedom, Swissair and Sabena, the traffic of the airport of Nice dropped. Since 2004, the traffic again increases grace in particular to the expansion of the company low-cost EasyJet and other companies at low cost (dBa repurchased by Air Berlin, Sterling, Jet 2, Tuifly, Sky Europe…). An interesting characteristic of the traffic of the platform niçoise is the very significant part that hold the private flights: approximately 20% of the traffic are composed of flights of businesses: two parts of the airport are reserved for the parking of the business aircrafts (the gauge of these planes varies between small single-engined aircrafts and Boeing 747 or Airbus A340 private).

The principal European countries served at the beginning of Nice are the the United Kingdom, the Ireland, the Germany, the Austria, the Italy, the Portugal, the Russia, the Suisse, the Netherlands, the Spain as well as the Scandinavian countries. Are served at the beginning of Nice the Morocco, the Algérie and the Tunisia in North Africa, the United Arab Emirates by the company Emirates as well as the the United States (New York) with Delta Airlines.

It should be noted that a great number of shuttles between Nice and Monaco are ensured by Hélicoptère by the companies Heli Air Monaco and Monacair in regular line (24 relations daily outward journey return on average).

Distribution 2006 of the companies serving the airport

In many commercial flights:

In many passengers:

References

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