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Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg - EuroAirport
| EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Flughafen Basel-Mülhausen-Freiburg Aéroport Bâle-Mulhouse-Fribourg |
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| IATA: BSL, MLH, EAP ICAO: LFSB | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Basel (Switzerland) Mulhouse (France) Freiburg (Germany) |
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| Location | Saint-Louis, France | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 885 ft / 270 m | ||
| Coordinates | 47°3524N 007°3145E / 47.59°N 7.52917°ECoordinates: 47°3524N 007°3145E / 47.59°N 7.52917°E | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 15/33 | 3,900 | 12,795 | Concrete |
| 08/26 | 1,820 | 5,971 | Concrete |
| 15r/33l | 630 | 2,067 | Grass |
| Statistics (2007) | |||
| Passengers | 4,270,000 | ||
| Freight (tons) | 107,000 | ||
| Aircraft Movements | 82,024 | ||
| Sources: French AIP,[1] airport website[2] and French AIP at EUROCONTROL[3] | |||
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (IATA: BSL, MLH, EAP, ICAO: LFSB) is an international airport 6 km (3.7 mi) northwest[3] of Basel (Switzerland), 22 km (14 mi) southeast[3] of Mulhouse (France), and near Freiburg (Germany). It is located in France, on the administrative territory of the commune of Saint-Louis near the Swiss and German borders. It handled 4,270,000 passengers in 2007.[2]
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International status
Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is one of the few airports in the world operated jointly by two countries, France and Switzerland. The headquarters of operations are located in Blotzheim, France.[4] The airport is located completely on French soil, but is operated on an agreement established in 1946 where both Switzerland and France are granted access to the airport without any customs or other border restrictions. The airport's board has 8 members from each country.
The airport building was originally split into two separate sections. However, with Switzerland joining the Schengen Treaty in March 2009, the separate Swiss and French halves have been united.
Due to its unique international status, EuroAirport has three IATA airport codes: BSL (Basel) is the Swiss code[5], MLH (Mulhouse) is the French code[6] and EAP (EuroAirport) is the international code.[citation needed] The ICAO airport code is LFSB.[1]
History
Plans for the construction of a joint Swiss-French airport started in the 1930s, but were stopped by the Second World War.
In 1946, talks were re-opened and it was agreed that an airport would be built at Blotzheim, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the city. France would provide the land, and Switzerland (Kanton Basel-City) would provide the construction costs. The Basel "Grosser Rat" (state Parliament) agreed to pay the costs for a provisional airport even before the international treaty was signed (which was not until 1949). Construction began on 8 March, 1946 and a provisional airport with a 1,200-metre (3,900 ft) runway was officially opened on 8 May in the same year.
Between autumn 1951 and spring 1953, the east-west runway was extended to 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) and the "Zollfreistrasse" (sealed road) was constructed allowing access from Basel to the departure terminal without passing through French border controls.
The first enlargement project was approved by referendum in Basel in 1960 and over the following decades the terminals and runways were continually extended. The north-south runway was extended further to 3,900 metres (12,800 ft) in 1972. In 1984, an annual total of 1 million passengers was reached.
In 1987, the official name was changed to "Euro-Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg". In 1992, the total of 2 million passengers was reached, and in 1998 3 million. The decision was made to enlarge the terminals again with a new Y-finger dock, the first phase was completed in 2002, the second phase in 2005.
The airline Crossair was based at Basel and was the largest airline. Following the Swissair bankruptcy in 2001, and the transformation of Crossair into Swiss International Air Lines, the number of flights from Basel fell and the new terminal was initially underused. In 2004 the low cost carrier EasyJet opened a base at Basel and the passenger totals rose again, reaching 4 million in 2006.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aigle Azur | Algiers, Constantine, Sétif |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Casablanca |
| Air Algérie | Constantine |
| Air Berlin | Catania [begins 9 May, seasonal], Heraklion [seasonal], Ibiza [begins 14 May, seasonal], Kos [seasonal], Lamezia Terme [seasonal], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Rhodes [seasonal], Tenerife-South |
| Air Berlin operated by Belair | Antalya [seasonal], Djerba [seasonal], Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh |
| Airlinair operated by Chalair | Rennes |
| Air France | Paris-Orly |
| Air France operated by CityJet | Amsterdam |
| Air France operated by Régional | Ajaccio [seasonal], Lyons, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Méditerranée | La Romana, Porlamar |
| Air Transat | Montréal-Trudeau [seasonal] |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Bourgas, Varna [seasonal] |
| DanubeWings | Bratislava, Poprad, Sármellék |
| EasyJet | Berlin-Schönefeld, London-Gatwick, Rome-Fiumicino |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Alicante, Ajaccio [seasonal; begins 26 June], Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Cagliari, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech, Nantes [begins 25 June], Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Pristina [begins 26 June], Rome-Fiumicino, Split [seasonal; begins 25 June], Thessaloniki [seasonal; begins 26 June] |
| Hello | Corfu, Dakar, Heraklion, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Varna |
| Iceland Express | Reykjavik-Keflavik |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways | Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf |
| Pegasus Airlines | Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen |
| Pegasus operated by IZair | Izmir |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| SunExpress | Antalya |
| Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, London-City, Manchester, Prague, Warsaw, Zürich |
| TUIfly | Corfu [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Funchal [seasonal], Heraklion [seasonal], Kos [seasonal], Lanzarote [resumes 2 May], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Minorca [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Rhodes [seasonal], Tenerife-South |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Twin Jet | Marseilles, Toulouse |
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| DHL | Leipzig/Halle |
| DHL operated by Atlantic Airlines | East Midlands |
| DHL operated by Bluebird Cargo | Geneva, Leipzig/Halle |
| MASkargo | Kuala Lumpur, Tashkent |
| TNT Airways | Liège |
| UPS operated by Farnair Switzerland | Cologne/Bonn |
Ground transport
- Basel's BVB bus No. 50 connects the Swiss sector of the airport to the Bahnhof SBB, which is the main Swiss and French railway station in Basel.
- French Distribus bus No. 11 connects the french sector of the airport to the Saint-Louis railway station.
References
- ^ a b LFSB BÂLE MULHOUSE (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 11 Feb 2010.
- ^ a b Statistics of the EuroAirport. EuroAirport.com, Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- ^ a b c EAD Basic
- ^ "General conditions of use." EuroAirport. Retrieved on 24 September 2009.
- ^ BSL - Basel/Mulhouse-EuroAirport Swiss. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- ^ MLH - Mulhouse, France/Basel-EuroAirport. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- "Franco-Swiss treaty for the construction and use of Basel-Mulhouse airport in Blotzheim" (1949). Text available in French and German.
- History of Basel Airport on Airport Website. (German)
- Information and some history on Airport Website. (English)
- Article on Basel Airport including information on its history. (German)
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: |
- EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg (official site) (English) (French) (German)
- Fly-EuroAirport.com (official B2C site of EuroAirport) (English) (French) (German)
- Aéroport de Bâle-Mulhouse (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
- Accident history for BSL at Aviation Safety Network
- Accident history for MLH at Aviation Safety Network
See also
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