Liège Airport

Liege Airport
IATA: LGG – ICAO: EBLG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Walloon government & private investors
Operator	Liege Airport s.a.
Serves	Liege, Belgium
Hub for	Allied Air Astral Aviation CAL Cargo Air Lines El Al Cargo Ethiopian Airlines Icelandair Cargo i-Fly Qatar Airways Cargo TNT Airways
Elevation AMSL	659 ft / 201 m
Coordinates
Website	liegeairport.com
Map
Location of airport in Belgium
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05R/23L 12,139 3,700 Asphalt 05L/23R 7,677 2,340 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Freight (tonnes) 590,578 Passengers 309,206

Liege Airport (IATA: LGG, ICAO: EBLG), previously called Liege-Bierset, is the international airport of Liege in Belgium.

Overview

The airport is located in Grâce-Hollogne, Liege Province, north-west of the city of Liege, in the east of Belgium. The first terminal on the site opened in 1930.

It is mainly used for freight/cargo operations, but also serves more than 23 destinations for passengers (mainly charters). Liege is located in the centre of the golden triangle Paris - Amsterdam - Frankfurt that handles 66% of European freight, and 75% when taken together with London. In 2014 it was the eighth-biggest cargo airport in Europe. Liege Airport is the biggest cargo airport in Belgium, and the third-biggest for passengers after Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Corsica	Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia
Jetairfly	Alicante, Djerba, Enfidha, Gran Canaria, Málaga, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Antalya, Bodrum, Casablanca, Heraklion, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tétouan
Nouvelair	Seasonal charter: Monastir
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium	Charter: Agadir, Alicante, Antalya, Bodrum, Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Enfidha, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Málaga, Marrakech, Monastir, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South
Tunisair	Seasonal charter: Djerba, Enfidha
I-Fly	Seasonal charter: Shenyang, Tianjin, Xi'an
Orenair	Seasonal charter: Changsha, Kunming, Nanjing

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
CAL Cargo Air Lines	Larnaca, New York–JFK, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Atlanta
El Al Cargo	New York–JFK, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Emirates SkyCargo	New York–JFK, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Sydney
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo	Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Khartoum, Lagos, Johannesburg, Pointe-Noire
Icelandair Cargo	East Midlands, New York–JFK, Boston, Reykjavík–Keflavík
i-Fly	Moscow, Shenyang, Xian, Tianjin
Qatar Airways Cargo	Doha, Nairobi, Chicago, Atlanta, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston
TNT Airways	Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin, Billund, Bologna, Brno, Bucharest, Budapest, Catania, Dubai–International, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg–Landvetter, Hannover, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Katowice, Reykjavík–Keflavík, Kiev, Larnaca, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London–Stansted, Lyon, Madrid, Malmö, Malta, Marseille, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York–JFK, Nuremberg, Örebro, Oslo, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto, Prague, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Sevilla, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sofia, Tallinn, Tangier, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Toulouse, Turku, Stockholm, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vitoria, Warsaw, Zaragoza

Statistics

Cargo activity

Liege Airport is the global hub of TNT Airways; the European hub of Allied Air, Astral Aviation, CAL Cargo Air Lines, El Al Cargo, Ethiopian Cargo, and Icelandair Cargo, and a key European cargo hub for ABX Air, AirBridge Cargo, Bluebird Cargo, Emirates, i-Fly, Qatar Airways Cargo and Ukraine International Airlines. Frequent visitors for charter operations are Antonov Airlines, Atlas Air, Cargolux, FedEx, Gestair Cargo, Kalitta Air, National, Lufthansa Cargo and Saudia Cargo.

Passenger activity

Ground transportation

By car

The airport is located next to the E42 (exit 3), close to an important highway junction.

By bus

A special bus (number 57) links the airport to Liège main train station (Liège-Guillemins) where connections can be made with local, national and high speed international trains (Thalys, ICE). This bus operates every 2 hours from 7 AM to 5 PM, on working days only. Bus number 53 goes to Liège city centre (Place Saint-Lambert) where connections are available with Liège public transport system.

See also

• Transportation in Belgium

External links

• (English) Liege Airport (official site)
• (French) (Dutch) (German) Liege Airport (official site)
• Airport information for EBLG at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.