Airport of Saint-Etienne - Bouthéon

The airport of Saint-Etienne - Bouthéon is a Aéroport department of the the Loire. It is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of Saint-Etienne/Montbrison.

Low-Cost company

Two airline companies shared the traffic of 100.000 travellers per annum: 90.000 for Ryanair and the remainder for Twin Jet, established since the autumn 2005. The airport saw its traffic increasing by 13% between 2004 and 2005.

It was before the Irish company low cost does not decide to defer its connection on the Aéroport of Grenoble. Ryanair has advanced that the Loire represented a less tourist attraction vis-a-vis that more important of the Alps (the 3/4 of the connections of Ryanair on the Grenoble-native platform are carried out at the time of the winter season). The CCI of Saint-Etienne/Montbrison judge that the subsidies " considerable granted by the local government agencies of Isère" (via association Airliance the Alps Dauphiné whose menbres are the CCI of Grenoble and the Departmental federation of the Tourist offices and Tourist offices of the Isere) are the true cause. The frequentation is likely to be reduced considerably. Today, the airport has a traffic of surroundings per annum 10.000 passengers.

Since the month of June 2007 and the stop of the exploitation of the line Saint-Etienne - Paris by the company Twin Jet, no regular airline company deserted more this airport.

But since October 30th, 2007, the airport of Saint-Etienne réouvre its doors with new flights by the companies charter in direction of: Jerba, Jordan, Egypt, Bastia, Marrakech, Venice, Prague. Corsica. According to the CCI of St-Etienne/Montbrison and St-Etienne Metropolis, the Ryanair company would return to the airport of Saint-Etienne to accomplish flights between St-Etienne and London.

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Airport of St-Etienne Bouthéon

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