Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 1,090 ft / 332 m 08/26 3,015 Code CFE Phone +33 4 73 62 71 00 | Location Clermont-Ferrand Website clermont-aeroport.com Address 63510 Aulnat, France Elevation 332 m | |
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Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (French: Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne) (IATA: CFE, ICAO: LFLC) is an airport serving the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. It is located 6.7 km (3.6 nautical miles) east of the city, in Aulnat, both communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne region of France, in the middle of France. It is the main airport of the Auvergne region, the others are Aurillac airport and Le-Puy-en-Velay airport. In 2013, the airport handled 416,600 passengers making it the 29th busiest airport in France.
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History
In 1916 the first hard runway was built on this site (now runway 08/26), the first terminal would open at the airport a few years later 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. The current terminal was built in 1992.
The airport used to be the hub of Regional Airlines, an important regional airline in France. Regional Airlines was bought by Air France in 2000 and Air France moved Regional´s hub (now 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. Today, there are only 14 destinations at the airport and 400,295 passengers in 2015. In 2013, Ryanair started flights to Porto (due to the large Portuguese community in the area), which has been a surprising successes.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of 1,090 feet (332 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 08/26 which measures 3,015 by 45 metres (9,892 ft × 148 ft), plus two 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). The passenger terminal is 17 600 m2 large.