Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (French: Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac) (IATA: BOD, ICAO: LFBD) is the international airport of Bordeaux, in south-western France. It is situated in the commune of Mérignac, 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Bordeaux, within the département of the Gironde.
It mainly features flights to metropolitan and leisure destinations in Europe and Northern Africa and serves as a base for Volotea. Transatlantic service is operated on a seasonal basis by Air Transat nonstop to Montreal, Quebec in Canada.
KG 40, the prime land-based maritime patrol Luftwaffe unit was primarily based at Bordeaux-Mérignac during the Occupation of France in World War II.
Bordeaux Airport has three passenger buildings:
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens, Heraklion |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Air Algérie | Algiers, Oran |
| Air Arabia Maroc | Fez |
| Air Canada | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| Air Corsica | Seasonal: Ajaccio, Calvi |
| Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Athens |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| ASL Airlines France | Seasonal: Oran |
| Blue Air | Bucharest |
| British Airways | London–Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Chalair Aviation | Brest, Caen, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes |
| easyJet | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Brussels,
Faro, Lanzarote, Lille, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,
Luxembourg, Lyon, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa,
Nice, Porto, Tel Aviv, Venice Seasonal: Bastia, Belfast–International, Catania, Essaouira, Glasgow, Granada, Hamburg, Heraklion, Ibiza, Liverpool, London–Southend, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South (begins 30 October 2019) |
| easyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| Flybe | Seasonal: Birmingham, Southampton |
| HOP! | Düsseldorf, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari |
| Iberia Regional | Madrid |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca, Marrakesh |
| Ryanair | Bari, Bergamo, Bologna,, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen,
Dublin, Fez, Kraków, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Manchester,
Marrakesh, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Ouarzazate, Porto,
Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Tangier, Treviso, Valencia Seasonal: Alicante, Brest, Cork, Edinburgh, Faro, Lamezia Terme, Málaga, Mykonos |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakesh |
| Tunisair | Tunis Seasonal: Djerba |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
| Ural Airlines | Seasonal: Moscow Domodedovo |
| Volotea | Ajaccio, Bastia, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Prague, Strasbourg,
Tenerife–South, Venice, Vienna Seasonal: Alicante, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Faro, Figari, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Menorca, Munich, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Pula, Santorini, Split |
| Vueling | Barcelona Seasonal: Málaga, Palma de Mallorca |
| Wizz Air | Seasonal: Budapest, Warsaw–Chopin |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| ASL Airlines France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
| DHL Aviation | Leipzig/Halle, Vitoria |
The airport is accessible by road via the A630 autoroute (exit 11b). There is a shuttle by 30'Direct shuttle serving the Bordeaux Saint-Jean railway station. Bus route 1+ of Transports Bordeaux Métropole serves the city centre.
The Bordeaux tramway system is planned to link the airport with the city centre by the end of 2019.
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