Airport Toulouse Blagnac

Geographical location

The airport Toulouse Blagnac is located at 8 km in the North-West of Toulouse. It is built on the historical site of the aerodrome of Blagnac at an altitude of 152 meters. In the South, the barrier of the Pyrenees is visible while in North and the North-East is spread out the town of Toulouse and its suburbs. In South-east, the the Garonne runs along a plate whose culminating point is the hillock of Pech David, site privileged to observe the landing or the takeoff of the planes in the axis of the tracks of the airport.

The climate of the airport is a soft moderate climate of autumn in spring and enough heat and dryness in summer. The dominant winds are, by order of importance, the wind of west, the wind of south-east (also called wind of southerly wind, rather hot and dry) and the wind of north, definitely less frequent and generally cold and dryness. The tracks are thus directed North-western in South-east.

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History

Created around an industrial pole created in 1939, the airport of Toulouse, the site accommodated the civil aviation as from 1945, in wood hutments. The first air terminal goes back to 1953.

The Toulouse-Blagnac airport is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of Toulouse within the framework of a convention of concession authorized by the State until 2008.

Traffic

The airport of Toulouse-Blagnac is the 4th airport of province with 5.956.552 passengers in 2006 (instead of 5.612.559 passengers in 2004 and 5.799.108 in 2005, that is to say a rise of 2.71%/2005) behind Nice, Lyon and Marseilles. It is however the first platform of freight of province with 58.720 tons treated in 2006 is +4,1%/2005.

The Toulouse line - Orly was in 2006 the first line of France in term of passengers with 2.439.429, all confused lines (in front of Nice-Orly).

The number of movements of planes was stable in 2006 with 79.964 commercial movements (+ 0,8%).

Stopovers served by regular lines: 43 including 27 international lines and 16 national lines Stopovers served by lines cargo liner: 30 Traffic freight and station installed 2006: 58 721 tons (+4,1%)

Infrastructures and equipment

The airport is spread out over 780 ha of ground over the commune of Blagnac. The capacity of reception of the air terminal is of 6,2 million passengers for an opening 24 hours a day. It is cut out in 3 halls of which entire surface is of 61.000 m ² out of two stages:

hall a:
hall b:
hall C:

The Hall D is currently in construction and will be inaugurated in 2009.

10 footbridges
8 elevators (public zone)
14 escalators
5 carpets delivery of luggage delivered by autonomous carriages. All those with the loading pass a radioscopy.
28 departure gates
68 banks of recording
10 P.I.F (Frontier Station of Inspection)

Two parallel tracks are equipped with THEY of category III, of luminous beaconing HI (High Intensity), BI (Low Intensity) and PAPI (visual system of approach), of slopes of approach and fires of glares:

Track n° 1: 3000 m X 60 m, orientation 14G-32D with 289 fires
Track n° 2: 3500 m X 75 m, orientation 14D-32G with 688 fires

List companies serving the airport of Toulouse Blagnac

The Airport east served by 46 airline companies:

Connections

Regular National destinations (Summer 2007)

Ajaccio
Bastia (new)
Brest (new)
Clermont Ferrand
Lille
Lyon
Marseilles
Metz/Nancy
Mulhouse/Basle
Nantes
Nice
Paris/Charles de Gaulle
Paris/Orly
Rennes
Strasbourg

Regular European destinations (Summer 2007)

Amsterdam
Belfast (new)
Birmingham
Bremen
Bristol-board
Brussels
Dublin
Dusseldorf
Frankfurt
Geneva
Hamburg
Leeds/Bradford (new)
Lisbon
London/Gatwick
Madrid
Malta
Manchester
Milan/Malpensa
Munich
Rome
Seville (new)

Regular International destinations (Summer 2007)

Algiers
Casablanca
Marrakech
Montreal/Pierre Trudeau (ex-Dorval)
Oran
the Meeting
Tunis

Connections of public transport

It is possible to go to the airport Toulouse Blagnac via the public transport. A shuttle managed by Tisséo makes it possible to connect the Gare Matabiau and the airport.

A shuttle spends every 20 minutes (of the Monday to Sunday) to the stops: Compans-Cafarelli, Jeanne d' Arc, Jean Jaurès and the Station Matabiau. There exists a young tariff for less than 25 years and the return ticket is much less expensive than two one-way tickets.

Road links

Access by the exit of the autouroute A621 which sails round Toulouse by the West is the axis of access principal from Toulouse. Then the Trunk road 124 in direction of Auch followed secondary road 902 give access the Aérogare.

See too

Internal bonds

Toulouse

External bonds

Official site of the airport of Toulouse-Blagnac
Information on the airport of Toulouse-Blagnac

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