Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport

*Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac*
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport; Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac
	IATA: BOD; ICAO: LFBD;
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Owner/Operator	Aéroport de Bordeaux Mérignac (SA ADBM)
Serves	Bordeaux
Location	Mérignac, Gironde, France
Opened	24 August 1910; 113 years ago
Operating base for	easyJet; Ryanair (ends October 2024); Volotea;
Elevation AMSL	162 ft / 49 m
Coordinates	44°49′42″N 000°42′56″W / 44.82833°N 0.71556°W
Website	www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr
Map
	BOD/LFBD Location of airport in Nouvelle-Aquitaine BOD/LFBD BOD/LFBD (France)
Runways
Statistics (2019)
Passengers
Passengers	7,703,143
Passenger traffic change	13.3%
	Sources: Statistics

Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French: Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) (IATA: BOD, ICAO: LFBD) is an international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde. It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe, Northern Africa, and Canada, and serves as a base for easyJet, Ryanair and Volotea airlines.^[4]

History

KG 40, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during the Occupation of France in World War II.^[5]

In May 2024, Ryanair announced the closure of its base at Bordeaux Airport citing fee increases, leading to the termination of 40 routes.^[2] The airline will stop serving the airport altogether by November 2024.^[6]^[7]

Terminals

Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:

Terminal A is mainly for international flights.^[8]
Terminal B passenger air terminal has two levels and is principally dedicated to Air France traffic between Paris and Bordeaux.^[9]
Terminal billi is a separate facility for low cost carriers. It has one floor and has small check-in and arrivals areas as well as a departures area with six aircraft parking positions which are used for walk boarding.^[10] Users of Terminal billi are easyJet and Ryanair.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:^[11]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion^[12]
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Air Algérie	Algiers, Oran
Air Arabia	Fès
Air France	Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Ajaccio, Calvi, Figari, Nice
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
British Airways	London–Gatwick^[13]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels^[14]
Chalair Aviation	Brest
Corsair International	Seasonal: Pointe-à-Pitre
easyJet	Athens,^[15] Basel/Mulhouse, Copenhagen, Essaouira,^[16] Faro, Geneva, Lanzarote,^[17] Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Nice, Porto,^[18] Rome–Fiumicino (begins 21 February 2025),^[19] Tenerife–South, Zürich (begins 7 November 2024)^[20] Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Belfast–International, Berlin, Bristol, Catania, Funchal,^[21] Glasgow, Heraklion, Ibiza, London–Luton, Manchester, Menorca,^[22] Olbia,^[23] Palma de Mallorca, Rovaniemi (begins 30 November 2024),^[24]^[25] Rhodes, Toulon^[26]
HiSky	Bucharest–Otopeni^[27]
Iberia	Madrid
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt Seasonal: Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg^[28]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen,^[29] Oslo
Nouvelair	Djerba,^[30] Tunis^[31]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair^[2]	Agadir (ends 24 October 2024), Barcelona (ends 26 October 2024), Bergamo (ends 25 October 2024), Charleroi (ends 26 October 2024), Dublin (ends 26 October 2024), Fès (ends 25 October 2024), Lisbon (ends 25 October 2024), London–Stansted (ends 24 October 2024), Málaga (ends 26 October 2024), Marrakesh (ends 25 October 2024), Marseille (ends 26 October 2024), Paphos (ends 26 October 2024),^[32] Porto (ends 26 October 2024), Prague (ends 25 October 2024), Seville (ends 26 October 2024), Tangier (ends 23 October 2024), Tenerife–South (ends 22 October 2024),^[33] Venice (ends 25 October 2024)^[33] Seasonal: Alghero (ends 26 October 2024), Alicante (ends 26 October 2024), Bari (ends 24 October 2024), Birmingham (ends 24 October 2024),^[34] Cork (ends 26 October 2024),^[35] Edinburgh (ends 26 October 2024), Faro (ends 26 October 2024), Figari (ends 26 October 2024),^[36] Ibiza (ends 24 October 2024),^[34] Kraków (ends 30 June 2024), Madrid (ends 26 October 2024),^[34]^[37] Malta (ends 26 October 2024),^[34] Manchester (ends 26 October 2024),^[37] Menorca (ends 26 October 2024),^[34] Naples (ends 24 October 2024), Palma de Mallorca (ends 25 October 2024), Pisa (ends 26 October 2024),^[34] Trapani (ends 28 September 2024),^[34] Valencia (ends 24 October 2024), Zadar (ends 30 June 2024)^[2]
Swiss International Air Lines^[38]	Zürich
Transavia	Eindhoven Seasonal: Dakar–Diass^[39]
TUI fly Belgium^[40]	Seasonal: Oujda^[41]
Tunisair^[42]	Tunis
Turkish Airlines^[43]	Istanbul
Volotea	Algiers,^[44] Athens,^[45] Düsseldorf,^[46] Florence, Hamburg,^[46] Lille,^[47] Málaga, Nice, Oran, Rome–Fiumicino,^[48] Strasbourg, Stuttgart,^[46] Tenerife–South, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Cagliari, Calvi,^[49] Corfu, Dubrovnik, Figari, Heraklion,^[50] Lanzarote, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Split
Vueling^[51]	Barcelona

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BOD airport.See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

Road

The airport is accessible by road via the A630 autoroute (exit 11b). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station. Bus route 1+ of Transports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.

Tram

Bordeaux tramway's Line A links the airport with the city centre since the end of April 2023.^[52]^[53]^[54]

References

External links

Media related to Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Official website
Aéroport de Bordeaux (Union des Aéroports Français) (in French)
Accident history for BOD at Aviation Safety Network

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