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The airport
General Information
The city of Toulouse is located in the south west of France and is an
important location for the Midi-Pyrénées region. The city´s history
counts on more than 2000 years. It is also nicknamed “la ville rose”
(the pink city) because of its numerous red brick buildings. The suburb
of Blagnac hosts the international airport Toulouse –Blagnac.
The airport is situated approx. 7km to the north west of the city centre
and with its 6.5 million yearly passengers it is the sixth biggest in
France. It is also the company airport of the aircraft manufacturers
Airbus and ATR. The airports history can look back to the maiden
flights of aircraft like the Concorde or the A380.
The infrastructure is always adapting to the ever changing rising air
traffic demands. There are constant changes and extensions in
progress, the latest were some new aircraft parking positions, a new
hangar and the new Terminal D which was taken into service in 2010
to cope with the expected passenger numbers of 8.5 million in the
year 2015.
Toulouse-Blagnac offers numerous national and international flights.
The most common national destinations are Brest, Marseille and Paris
Charles-De Gaulle. International destinations are Barcelona, Dublin,
Rome and Frankfurt.
The airport has two parallel runways equipped with an ILS CAT III and
HI, BI and PAPI lightings. The runways have a length of 3.000 and
3.500 meters.