Contact

For any information regarding your trip (practical questions about your trip, flight schedules, flight ticket reservations, size and weight of your luggage, compulsory documents and others...) please call the Aviapartner desk located in the airport terminal:
  0033.5.46.42.86.70

To talk to the administrative services, the marketing, communication or accounting department please dial:
  0033.5.46.42.30.26.

A few dates to remember

2011

• Opening of a new line with Porto (Portugal)

2010

• Opening of a new line with Oslo (Norway)
• The airport new internet website is online
• New restaurant "l'Escal'Express" in the airport terminal with a snack-bar in the boarding lounge.
• Opening of a new line to Southampton in autumn and winter 2010

2009

• Opening of a new line to Brussels-Charleroi
• Opening of an Aelia Duty Free shop in the boarding lounge

2008

• Opening of new lines with Leeds, Edinburgh, Cork and Glasgow
• Extension of the car park (200 extra spaces)
• Creation of a new boarding lounge of 600 m2

2007

• Opening of new lines to London Gatwick and Manchester
• The airport crosses the threshold of 200 000 passengers

2006

• Creation of the car park
• Opening of new lines with Bristol and Dublin

2005

Work on the runway:

• Lengthening of 115m (total length: 2 255m)
• Extension of 45m (total width: 45m)
• Reinforcement, taxiway and aircraft park
• The airport welcomes Ryanair's Boeing 737-800
• Opening of a new line to Birmingham

2004

• Opening of a new line to Southampton (from June to October)
• Closing of the line to Clermont-Ferrand
• Opening of a new line with Lyon

2001

• Opening of a new line to London with Buzz airlines, taken over by Ryanair in 2003.

1999

• Opening of a new line to Clermont-Ferrand

1996

• Construction of a new higher control tower (16m)

1992

• Replacement of the ILS (Instrument Landing System)

1991

• Installation of high intensity runway lighting
• Replacement of the spare generator
• Replacement of the VASIS (Visual Approach Slope Indicator System) by PAPI (Precision Approach Path Indicator)

1989

• Repairing of the entire runway and of the aircraft park

1979

• Enlargement of the runway and of the aircraft park

1978

• Installation of a TNA (Télémètre de Nuages Analogiques) to measure the height of the clouds above the airport

1977

• Commissioning of the flashing lights Lengthening of the runway (2 140m)

1976

• Installation of a VASIS (Visual Approach Slope Indicator System)

1974

• Installation of a medium frequency radio beacon and a ILS (Instrument Landing System)

1973

• Lengthening of the runway (1 940m in total)

1967

• Opening of new lines to Paris and Lyon Building of the airport terminal and of several buildings with a control tower Commissioning of the spare generator for the runway lighting

1966

• Commissioning of the runway lighting and the VHF direction finder

1962

• Building of a runway (1 100m long x 30m wide)

1946

• Opening of a taxi airline to Paris through Niort, and to Bordeaux, Nantes and Lyon

1939

• Opening of the airfield (50% State funding, 25% CCI funding, La Rochelle 25% funding)

1936

• The State, the town of La Rochelle, and La Rochelle Chamber of Commerce and Industry decide to build an airport in Laleu.