# Nice Côte d'Azur Airport

Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (French: Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) (IATA: NCE, ICAO: LFMN) is an international airport located 3.2 NM (5.9 km; 3.7 mi) southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2024, it handled 14,770,626 passengers. The airport is positioned 7 km (4 mi) west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur.
Due to its proximity to Monaco, which is located 20 km (12 mi) away to the northeast, it also serves as that city-state's airport, with helicopter service linking the principality and airport. Some airlines market Monaco as a destination via Nice Airport.

## Facilities

The airport covers an area of over 3.70 km$^2$ (1.43 sq mi) partially reclaimed from the sea, with 2.70 km$^2$ (1.04 sq mi) used by its two parallel runways and the three passenger terminals and freight terminal. The airport's theoretical capacity is 14 million annual passengers and 52 movements (26 landings) per hour. Terminals 1 and 2 are linked by a tram service. The route stops at the airport and connects with the city centre via the "Jean Médecin" station, and with the port via the "Port Lympia" station. Buses connect the car parks with the terminals.

### Terminal 1

Terminal 1 features 25 gates on a space of 52,000 m$^2$ (560,000 sq ft). It features flights to domestic, Schengen and non-Schengen destinations and has a capacity of 4.5 million passengers per year. A business center is located at Terminal 1 containing eight rooms and a conference room with a capacity of 250 people.

### Terminal 2

Terminal 2 is the newer and larger facility and is equipped to handle flights to all destinations. There are 29 gates on a space of 57,800 m$^2$ (622,000 sq ft). The terminal has a capacity of 8.5 million passengers per year.

### Business Aviation Terminal

The Business Aviation Terminal, located next to Terminal 2, covers an area of 1,500 m$^2$ (16,000 sq ft). Opened in 2010, this terminal contains the operations rooms, VIP lounges, crew lounges and offices of several business aviation companies.

## Airlines and destinations
### Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Nice:
| Airlines | Destinations |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Constantine |
| Air Arabia | Fez |
| airBaltic | Riga Seasonal: Tallinn, Vilnius |
| Air Canada | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| Air Corsica | Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari Seasonal: Florence (begins 27 June 2025) |
| Air Dolomiti | Munich |
| Air France | London–Heathrow, Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly |
| Air Serbia | Belgrade |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| Amelia International | Seasonal: Brive |
| American Airlines | Seasonal: Philadelphia |
| Animawings | Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni (begins 17 April 2025) |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| British Airways | London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow Seasonal: London–City, London–Stansted |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Chalair Aviation | Seasonal: Brive (begins 27 June 2025) |
| Delta Air Lines | Seasonal: Atlanta, New York–JFK |
| easyJet | Agadir, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Geneva, Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Madrid, Manchester, Marrakesh, Nantes, Naples, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Porto, Prague, Rabat, Rennes, Rome–Fiumicino, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv (resumes 3 June 2025), Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Venice Seasonal: Alicante, Athens, Bari, Belfast–International, Biarritz, Chania, Düsseldorf (begins 24 June 2025), Edinburgh, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Lamezia Terme (begins 23 June 2025), Lanzarote, Liverpool, Málaga, Malta, Mykonos, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Rovaniemi, Santorini (begins 25 June 2025) |
| El Al | Seasonal: Tel Aviv |
| Emirates | Dubai–International |
| Etihad Airways | Seasonal: Abu Dhabi |
| Eurowings | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg, Prague, Stuttgart |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| FlyOne | Chișinău |
| FlyOne Armenia | Seasonal: Yerevan |
| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi |
| Gulf Air | Seasonal: Bahrain, Milan–Malpensa |
| Heli Air Monaco | Monaco |
| Iberia | Madrid Seasonal: Ibiza, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca |
| Icelandair | Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík |
| ITA Airways | Rome–Fiumicino |
| Jet2.com | Seasonal: Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Kuwait Airways | Seasonal: Kuwait City |
| La Compagnie | Seasonal: Newark |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw–Chopin |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Middle East Airlines | Seasonal: Beirut |
| Monacair | Monaco |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Aalborg, Bergen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Stavanger, Trondheim |
| Nouvelair | Monastir, Tunis |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca |
| Ryanair | Dublin Seasonal: London–Stansted |
| Saudia | Seasonal: Riyadh |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg, Stavanger |
| SkyUp Airlines | Chișinău (begins 21 May 2025) |
| Smartwings | Seasonal: Prague |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Geneva, Zürich |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| TAROM | Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni |
| Transavia | Amsterdam, Tunis Seasonal: Algiers, Dakar–Diass, Eindhoven, Monastir |
| Tunisair | Monastir, Tunis Seasonal: Djerba |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
| Twin Jet | Toulouse Seasonal: Venice (begins 31 March 2025) |
| United Airlines | Seasonal: Newark, Washington–Dulles (begins 25 May 2025) |
| Universal Air | Malta |
| Volotea | Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Luxembourg, Nantes, Strasbourg Seasonal: Charleroi, Venice |
| Vueling | Barcelona |
| Widerøe | Seasonal: Sandefjord |
| Wizz Air | Belgrade, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Kraków, Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Tirana, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław (begins 6 December 2025) |

### Cargo

| Airlines | Destinations |
| ASL Airlines France | Marseille |

## Statistics

Passengers per year :
| Year | Passengers | Change |
| 2018 | 13,850,561 | 04.1% |
| 2017 | 13,304,782 | 07.1% |
| 2016 | 12,427,511 | 03.4% |
| 2015 | 12,016,730 | 03.1% |
| 2014 | 11,660,208 | 00.9% |
| 2013 | 11,554,251 | 03.3% |
| 2012 | 11,189,896 | 07.4% |
| 2011 | 10,422,073 | 08.5% |
| 2010 | 9,603,014 | 02.3% |
| 2009 | 9,830,987 | 05.3% |

### Route statistics

Top 10 busiest national routes from Nice (2023) :
| Rank | City | Passengers | Airlines |
| 1 | Paris–Orly | 1 659 498 | Air France, easyJet |
| 2 | Paris–Charles de Gaulle | 1 177 460 | Air France, easyJet |
| 3 | Lille | 336 970 | easyJet, Volotea |
| 4 | Nantes | 307 844 | easyJet, Volotea |
| 5 | Bordeaux | 294 283 | easyJet, Volotea |
| 6 | Bastia | 134 422 | Air Corsica |
| 7 | Toulouse | 131 944 | easyJet, Twin Jet |
| 8 | Ajaccio | 126 302 | Air Corsica |
| 9 | Lyon | 114 572 | Air France |
| 10 | Strasbourg | 112 465 | easyJet, Volotea |
Top 20 busiest international routes from Nice (2023) :
| Rank | City | Passengers | Airlines |
| 1 | London–Heathrow | 628 087 | Air France, British Airways |
| 2 | London–Gatwick | 580 221 | Air France, British Airways, easyJet |
| 3 | Geneva | 421 724 | easyJet, Swiss International Air Lines |
| 4 | Amsterdam | 410 738 | easyJet, KLM, Transavia |
| 5 | Rome–Fiumicino | 388 459 | easyJet, ITA Airways, Wizz Air |
| 6 | Barcelona | 291 247 | easyJet, Vueling |
| 7 | Copenhagen | 289 988 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 8 | Frankfurt | 280 787 | Lufthansa |
| 9 | Brussels | 275 713 | Brussels Airlines, easyJet |
| 10 | Munich | 251 096 | Lufthansa |
| 11 | Zürich | 242 244 | Swiss International Air Lines |
| 12 | Lisbon | 251 096 | easyJet, TAP Air Portugal |
| 13 | Vienna | 229 140 | Austrian Airlines, Wizz Air |
| 14 | Dubai–International | 228 132 | Emirates |
| 15 | Stockholm–Arlanda | 207 504 | Eurowings, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 16 | Madrid | 251 096 | easyJet, Iberia |
| 17 | Basel/Mulhouse | 194 910 | easyJet |
| 18 | Oslo | 188 449 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines |
| 19 | Istanbul | 188 408 | Turkish Airlines |
| 20 | Tunis | 183 429 | Nouvelair, Transavia, Tunisair |

## Ground transportation

The airport is located on the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. Since December 2018, Nice tramway line 2 connects the airport to the Port of Nice (Lympia Port) via the Grand Arénas interchange. Also located at this interchange, some 400 meters from the airport, is the train station Nice Saint Augustin. Trams runs every 8 minutes during the day; a separate tramline runs from the airport to the western suburbs. Additionally, bus route 12 connects the airport with Promenade des Artes via the old town.

## Société Naviplane Ferry

In 1969 an experimental and short-lived ferry service utilized two N.300 Naviplane hovercraft. The airport was connected to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco and San-Remo.

## Accidents and incidents

* On 9 April 1949, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BATU of Air France overran the runway and was damaged beyond economic repair.
* On 3 March 1952, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BCUM of Air France crashed shortly after take-off; all 38 people on board died. The cause of the accident was that the aileron controls had jammed. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Nice to Orly Airport, Paris.
* On 11 September 1968, Air France Flight 1611 en route from Ajaccio, in the island of Corsica, to Nice, France crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice; all 95 on board died. A memorial is located near the airport.
* On 3 September 1979, Sterling Airways Flight 4133 an Aérospatiale Corvette (Registration: OY-SBS) crashed into the sea 1 km (0.62 mi) south of the airport on a flight from Coventry Airport to Nice. All 10 passengers and crew died in the crash.