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Bastia – Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, 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.

Bastia – Poretta Airport Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
IATA: BIA ICAO: LFKB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
Serves	Bastia, Corsica, France
Location	Lucciana
Elevation AMSL	26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E
Website	bastia.aeroport.fr
Map
LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica Show map of Corsica LFKB LFKB (France) Show map of France
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 16/34 2,520 8,268 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 1,525,159 Passenger traffic change 8.9%
Source: French AIP,[1] Aeroport.fr[2]

History

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]}

• 414th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 5 February–July 1944; 5 September – 13 October 1944, Bristol Beaufighter
• 527th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, (Twelfth Air Force), 12 July-23 September 1944, P-47 Thunderbolt
• 416th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 14–23 August 1944, P-61 Black Widow
• 417th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), February–April 1944; 25 April – 7 September 1944, Bristol Beaufighter[3]
• 5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
• 23rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
• 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, (XII Tactical Air Command), 21 July – 27 August 1944, P-51/F-6 Mustang
• 42nd Bombardment Wing was headquartered at the airfield, 21 September – 24 November 1944.

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Air Corsica	Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Charleroi,[4] Dole, Gothenburg, Toulon
Air France	Paris–Orly Seasonal: Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Metz/Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pau, Perpignan, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Air France Hop	Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Bordeaux
ASL Airlines France	Seasonal: Oujda, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow[5]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels[6]
Chalair Aviation	Seasonal: Limoges, Perpignan[7]
easyJet	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Vienna
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid[8]
Lübeck Air	Seasonal: Lübeck[9]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia	Seasonal: Brest, Rotterdam/The Hague[10]
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels
Volotea	Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Vueling	Barcelona

Statistics

References

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

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Bastia

Der Flughafen Bastia-Poretta (IATA-Code BIA, ICAO-Code LFKB) liegt auf der französischen Insel Korsika im Département Haute-Corse, rund 20 km südlich von Bastia. Zahlreiche Ausbau- und Modernisierungsmaßnahmen am Flughafen haben zu einer seit Jahren steigenden Bedeutung des Flughafens für den Urlaubs- und Reiseverkehr auf Korsika beigetragen. Die Industrie- und Handelskammer von Bastia und Haute-Corse ist seit 1958 Betreiber des Flughafens.[3] Nach Mitternacht hat der Flughafen geschlossen. Übernachtungen am Flughafen sind nicht möglich.

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- [en] Bastia – Poretta Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Bastia-Poretta

El Aeropuerto de Bastia-Poretta, es un aeropuerto de Francia situado en la isla de Córcega, que da servicio a la ciudad de Bastia. El aeropuerto es de tamaño pequeño y cuenta con una única terminal.[1]

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[fr] Aéroport de Bastia-Poretta

L'aéroport de Bastia Poretta (code IATA : BIA • code OACI : LFKB) est un aéroport du département de la Haute-Corse. Il est situé à environ 20 kilomètres au sud de Bastia, au niveau de Lucciana.

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[it] Aeroporto di Bastia Poretta

L'aeroporto di Bastia Poretta (in francese: Aéroport de Bastia-Poretta, in corso: Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta) è un aeroporto francese situato in Corsica vicino alla città di Bastia, nel dipartimento della Corsica settentrionale; è il secondo aeroporto dell'isola per traffico passeggeri dopo quello di Ajaccio.

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[ru] Бастия-Поретта

Аэропорт Бастия-Поретта (фр. Aéroport de Bastia Poretta) расположен на востоке Корсики, обслуживает город Бастия и департамент Верхняя Корсика. Он расположен в 20 километрах на юго-восток от центра Бастии в коммунах Борго и Луччана.

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