Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport or Aéroport de Metz-Nancy-Lorraine is an airport

Airport

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 serving the Lorraine

Lorraine (région)

Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...

 région

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of France. It is located in Goin

Goin, Moselle

Goin is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France....

, 16.5 km southeast of Metz

Metz

Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...

, (both communes

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of the Moselle

Moselle

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 département) and north of Nancy (a commune

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of Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meurthe-et-Moselle

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).

It opened to the public on October 28, 1991 and replaced Nancy-Essey and Metz-Frescaty airports. The airport is open 24/7. The runway was lengthened to 3050 m and refurbished in mid-2006 to be able to handle all types of large aircraft. The terminal building is about 7500 sqm and could accommodate up to 500,000 passengers per year with 14 check-in desks, 2 gates (a third one will be added soon) and 2 luggage claim belts. The cargo terminal is 3,600 sqm and could handle up to 60,000 tons of freight per year. The airport was a regional hub for DHL

DHL

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 from 2000 to 2006, with flights to Toulouse, Nice, Marseilles, Cologne, Brussels, Paris, Vitoria and East-Midlands.

Airlines and destinations

And various charter flights (Egypt, Croatia, Spain, Madeira...). UN, NATO and french air force flights are also operated (Kosovo, Chad, FWI, Ivory Coast...)

Statistics

Year	Passengers	Freight
1998	288,209	3,410
1999	322,501	3,206
2000	352,626	8,521
2001	331,266	19,684
2002	302,849	18,994
2003	294,731	17,359
2004	326,324	9,030
2005	356,815	1,219
2006	340,242	633
2007	344,913	36
2008	291,006	144
2009	263,000	51
2010	254,204	69

External links

• Aéroport Metz Nancy Lorraine (official site)
• Aéroport de Metz-Nancy-Lorraine at Union des Aéroports Français