Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport

The airport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine is a Lorraine Aéroport , whose 230 Hectare S are distributed on the territory of five common of the the Moselle: Goin, Pagny-lès-Goin, Vigny, Liéhon and Silly-in-Saulnois.

The Code AITA of the airport is ETZ. The Code ICAO of the airport is LFJL.

Construction and inauguration

Its construction began the September 9th 1989 and was completed semi-officially during the summer of 1991 by the take-off of more than 800 Montgolfière S starting from the new airport platform. The inauguration took place the September 30th 1991 at 11 a.m. The first plane of a regular line took off the October 28th 1991 with 6:30 bound for Marseilles. The airport will have cost 378 brought up to date frank million in (value 1992).

During the Nineties, Metz-Nancy was one of the major stopovers of TAT, become Air Freedom then Air Lib. It offered thus at the end of the Nineties of the daily flights towards Paris-Orly, Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse, Nantes, Nice, Bordeaux and Montpellier, supplemented by flights towards Lille ensured by Flanders Air. The bankruptcy of this company in 2001 carried a very hard blow to the airport, of which a part only of the lines were taken again by Air France.

The platform also briefly accommodated the operator freight DHL who did one of his hubs of them European. But the repurchase of DHL by the German post offices has constrained this one has to change strategy. Part of the European hubs, whose Metz-Nancy, was closed in order to concentrate the activity on the German airport of Leipzig. From now on, the airport accommodates nothing any more but specific flights cargo liner.

A lengthening length of the track (carried to 3050m) was carried out in August 2006 to allow the landing of large long transport aircrafts mail what should allow a notable development of the airport, in particular in freight long mail.

The airport tries with the beginning of the year a 2007 diversification in the flights low cost, with flights towards Bergamo and Venice operated by Italian the MyAir. But the bad results recorded on two lines oblige the company to be withdrawn as of September 2007 of the connection towards Bergamo. The line towards Venice should be stopped at the end of November. However, of the pourpalers are in hand for their recovery in spring 2008.

The arrival of TGV Is European on June 10th, 2007 allows an access to the Gare of Lorraine - TGV near.

Destinations

Scheduled flights

At November 1st, 2007, the following destinations are served by scheduled flights at the beginning of the airport of Metz-Nancy-Lorraine:

Flights charters

Many a flights charters takes off of the airport primarily worms of the sunny destinations.

The following companies take off Metz-Nancy-Lorraine during the winter 2007-2008:

The following destinations are served during the summer 2007

Statistics

References

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