Nice Côte d'Azur Airport is an airport

Airport

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 located 3.2 NM southwest of Nice

Nice

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, in the Alpes-Maritimes

Alpes-Maritimes

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 department of France

France

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. 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. It is the third busiest airport in France after Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Charles de Gaulle International Airport

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 and Orly Airport, both in Paris

Paris

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. It is located on the western end of the Promenade des Anglais

Promenade des Anglais

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, near l'Arénas and has two terminals

Airport terminal

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. Due to its proximity to the Principality of Monaco

Monaco

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, it also serves as that city-state

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's airport, with helicopter

Helicopter

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 service linking the city and airport. Some airlines marketed Monaco as a destination via Nice Airport.

The Chamber of Commerce and the Nice Côte d'Azur industry operate the airport. The airport's director is Hervé de Place, director of the Côte d'Azur airports, which includes Côte d'Azur International Airport's cousin airport, Cannes-Mandelieu

Cannes - Mandelieu Airport

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. In 2009, 9,830,987 passengers travelled through the airport, a number that decreased to 9,636,548 for 2010.

Services

The two airport terminals are linked by courtesy shuttle buses that also connect the car parks with the terminals. A business center is located at Terminal 1 containing eight rooms and a conference room with a capacity of 250 people. There are eight car parks, from "kiss & fly" to long term.

Capacity

The airport covers an area of over 3.7 km² (1.4 sq mi), with 2.7 km² (1 sq mi) used by its two parallel runways and the used by two passenger terminals and a freight terminal.

The airport's theoretical capacity is 13 million passengers and 52 movements (26 landings) per hour.

Terminal 1 : (National, Schengen

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 and non-Schengen

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)

• 25 gates
• Capacity: 4.5 million passengers

Terminal 2 (National, Schengen and non-Schengen)

• 29 gates
• Capacity: 8.5 million passengers

Freight terminal
Capacity 30,000 metric tons/year

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur (official site)
• Aéroport de Nice - Côte d'Azur (Union des Aéroports Français)