Lille Airport

Lille Airport Aéroport de Lille
IATA: LIL ICAO: LFQQ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Socièté de gestion de l'aéroport de la région de Lille (SOGAREL)
Serves	Lille, France
Location	Lesquin, France
Elevation AMSL	157 ft / 48 m
Coordinates	50°33′48″N 003°05′13″E / 50.56333°N 3.08694°E / 50.56333; 3.08694
Website	lille.aeroport.fr
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,825 9,268 Asphalt 02/20 1,580 5,184 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 2,078,549 Passenger Change 17-18 9.1%
Sources: Airport,[1] French AIP[2]

Lille Airport^[1] (French: Aéroport de Lille^[1]) (IATA: LIL^[3], ICAO: LFQQ^[2]) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille,^[2] a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department.

The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille. It is the 12th busiest French airport in number of passengers: around 970,000 passengers in 2001 and 1,397,637 passengers in 2012.^[4] In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.