Bastia – Poretta Airport

Airport serving Bastia, Corsica, France

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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[a] (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:[clarification needed]

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
easyJet Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg (begins 29 June 2024),[4][5][6] 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

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Annual passenger traffic at BIA airport. See Wikidata query.

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ a b LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 18 April 2024.
  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
    • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
    • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
  4. ^ "Vier zusätzliche Reiseziele ab dem Flughafen Nürnberg: Eurowings baut Angebot aus". 22 January 2024.
  5. ^ ""Überraschung im Flugplan": Diese beliebte Hauptstadt wird endlich wieder ab Nürnberg angeflogen". 22 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Mallorca, Nizza und viele mehr: Neue Reiseziele vom Airport Nürnberg".

External links

Media related to Bastia Airport at Wikimedia Commons

  • Bastia Airport (official site) (in English)
  • Aéroport de Bastia-Poretta at Union des Aéroports Français (in French)
  • Current weather for LFKB at NOAA/NWS
  • Accident history for BIA at Aviation Safety Network
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