Bastia – Poretta Airport

Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorCCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
ServesBastia
LocationLucciana, Corsica, France
Elevation AMSL26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E / 42.55000; 9.48472
Websitebastia.aeroport.fr
Map
LFKB is located in Corsica
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LFKB
Location of the airport in Corsica
LFKB is located in France
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LFKB (France)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 2,520 8,268 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers1,489,038
Passenger traffic changeIncrease 24.1%
Source: French AIP,[1] Aeroport.fr[2]

Bastia – Poretta Airport[lower-alpha 1] (IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south-southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.

History

Airphoto of Borgo Airfield, 15 August 1944. Note the large number of B-17s on the parking apron, probably used during the Invasion of Southern France.

In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

USAAF combat units assigned:

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bastia – Poretta airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Air Corsica Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Charleroi, Dole, Toulon
Air France Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Clermont-Ferrand, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rennes
easyJet Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia Seasonal: Brest, Gothenburg, Rotterdam/The Hague
Volotea Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BIA airport. See Wikidata query.

Notes

  1. French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, Corsican: Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta

References

  1. 1 2 LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 December 2023.
  2. "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2022" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  3. Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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