Bastia – Poretta Airport Aéroport de Bastia Poretta Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica | ||||||||||
Serves | Bastia | ||||||||||
Location | Lucciana, Corsica, France | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E | ||||||||||
Website | bastia.aeroport.fr | ||||||||||
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Bastia – Poretta Airport [a] ( 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.
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]
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bastia – Poretta airport:
Airlines | Destinations |
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Air Corsica |
Lyon,
Marseille,
Nice,
Paris–Orly Seasonal: Charleroi, Dole, Toulon |
Air France | Paris–Orly |
easyJet | Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
Eurowings | Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Nuremberg (begins 29 June 2024), [4] [5] [6] Stuttgart |
Lufthansa | Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich |
Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
Transavia | Seasonal: Brest, Gothenburg, Rotterdam/The Hague |
Volotea | Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse |
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