Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

Coordinates: 45°47′09″N 003°09′45″E / 45.78583°N 3.16250°E / 45.78583; 3.16250
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Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne
Auvergne region
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,015 9,892 Asphalt
08L/26R 909 2,982
Grass
01/19 705 2,313
Grass
Statistics (2018)
Passengers430,696
Passenger traffic changeIncrease 8.7%
Sources: Aeroport.fr[1]

Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (

Aurillac Airport and Le-Puy-en-Velay Airport
. In 2013, the airport handled 416,600 passengers making it the 29th busiest airport in France.

History

In 1916 the first hard runway was built on this site (now runway 08/26), the first terminal would open at the airport in 1937. The terminal had a size 200m². In 1975 the runway was extended to its current 3,015 m. A year later in 1976 the airport had a category 3 ILS system installed.[2] The current terminal was built in 1992.

The airport used to be the hub of

Hop!
) to the airport of Lyon St Exupéry, about a hundred kilometers away.

Over 1 million passengers went to Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport in 2002, with more than 30 destinations in France and in Europe. More recently, there were only 14 destinations at the airport and 400,295 passengers in 2015.

Facilities

The airport resides at an

grass runways: one parallel to 08/26 which measures 909 by 50 metres (2,982 ft × 164 ft) and one designated 01/19 which measures 705 by 60 metres (2,313 ft × 197 ft).[3]
The passenger terminal is 17,600 square metres (189,000 sq ft) large.

Ground Transport

The train station serving Aulnat also serves the airport and is therefore named Aulnat-Aéroport.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Clermont-Ferrand:[4]

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Ajaccio
Nice[5]
Ryanair Porto
Seasonal: Fez

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Magma Aviation[6] Dakar–Diass

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at CFE airport. See Wikidata query.

Incidents

  • On 28 December 1971, Vickers Viscount F-BOEA of Air Inter was damaged beyond economic repair when it departed the runway on a training flight during a simulated failure of #4 engine.[7]
  • On 27 October 1972,
    radio compass had shifted 180 degrees, most likely the result of electrical discharges in the rainstorm they were flying through. The crew may have followed the erroneous reading as they attempted to fly an approach pattern using Clermont-Ferrand's non-directional beacon (NDB). The aircraft descended too early and struck a mountain 44 km (27 mi) east of the airport.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Aéroport Clermont Ferrand".
  3. ^ LFLC – CLERMONT FERRAND AUVERGNE. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
  4. ^ clermont-aeroport.com - Destination map Archived 2017-08-01 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 14 May 2017
  5. ^ Liu, Jim. "Air France S20 Short-Haul Network additions as of 28JAN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. ^ magmaaviation.com - network retrieved 9 November 2020
  7. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
  8. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 6 April 2010.

External links

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