LILLFQQ

Lille Airport

Lesquin, France · Europe

Europe Europe/Paris IVCA 45.6

58direct destinations

13airlines

2runways

2,825 mLongest runway

1937opened

Lille Airport (French: Aéroport de Lille) (IATA: LIL, ICAO: LFQQ) is an airport located in Lesquin, 7 km (4 mi) south-southeast of Lille, a city in northern France. It is also known as Lille-Lesquin Airport or Lesquin Airport. Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Hauts-de-France region and the prefecture of the Nord department. The airport is 15 minutes from the city centre of Lille. It is the 12th busiest French airport by number of passengers: around 970,000 in 2001 and 1,397,637 in 2012. In terms of cargo, it ranks fourth, with almost 38,000 tonnes passing through each year.

Location

50.567°N, 3.102°E · 48 m s. n. m. (157 ft)

General data

CountryFrance

CityLesquin

IATA codeLIL

ICAO codeLFQQ

Coordinates50.567°N, 3.102°E

Elevation48 m s. n. m. (157 ft)

Time zoneEurope/Paris

Runways2

Longest runway2,825 m

Opened1937

Direct destinations58

Official website Its quality in the IVCA Ranking

Runways · 2

08/26

Length2,825 m9,268 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

01/19

Length1,580 m5,184 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 11 Official publication

Tower

118.555

Ground

121.855

ATIS (automatic information)

119.330

Approach

120.275122.060126.480APP · INFO129.360APP · INFO134.825APP · INFO125.500ALTN

Flight information

132.540132.610

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Frequencies from the official publication: AIP France (SIA), AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 13

Airlines using it as a main base (hub)

Volotea

Other airlines with direct routes

ASL Airlines France easyJet TUI fly Belgium Air Algérie Nouvelair Ryanair Transavia Aegean Airlines Air Arabia Air France EasyJet Switzerland Transavia France

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Lille Airport (LIL). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIL

MLA

“Lille Airport (LIL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIL. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Lille Airport (LIL). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIL (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_lil,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Lille Airport (LIL)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIL},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/LIL}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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