Nice Côte d'Azur Airport is an international airport located southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet. In 2025, it handled 15.23 million passengers. The airport is positioned west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for passengers to the Côte d'Azur.

Due to its proximity to Monaco, which is located away to the northeast, it also serves as that city-state's airport, with helicopter service linking the principality and airport. Some airlines market Monaco as a destination via Nice Airport."Route Map " in 1993, Trans World Airlines

Facilities

Business Aviation Terminal The Business Aviation Terminal, located next to Terminal 2, covers an area of . Opened in 2010, this terminal contains the operations rooms, VIP lounges, crew lounges and offices of several business aviation companies.

Airlines and destinations Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Nice:nice.aeroport.fr - Flight Info retrieved 4 November 2021

Cargo

Statistics

+Passengers per year Year Passengers ChangeCargo (tons)Change202414,763,7534.0% 16 03546.0%202314,189,96517.1% 10 982 31.9%202212,119,04385.3% 8 32662.8%20216,540,42442.8% 5 114108.0%20204,580,45968.4% 2 45980.7%201914,485,4234.6% 12 73719.1% 2018 13,850,5614.1% 15 7481.6% 2017 13,304,7827.1% 16 0016.3% 2016 12,427,5113.4% 15 0502.3% 2015 12,016,7303.1% 15 4037.7% 2014 11,660,2080.9% 16 6956.2% 2013 11,554,2513.3% 2012 11,189,8967.4% 2011 10,422,0738.5% 2010 9,603,0142.3%2009 9,830,9875.3%

Busiest domestic routes

+Top 10 busiest domestic routes from/to Nice (2023) Rank Airport Passengers Airline(s) 1 Paris–Orly 1,659,498 Air France, easyJet 2 Paris–Charles de Gaulle 1,177,460 Air France, easyJet 3 Lille 336,970 easyJet, Volotea 4 Nantes 307,844 easyJet, Volotea 5 Bordeaux 294,283 easyJet, Volotea 6 Bastia, Corsica 134,422 Air Corsica 7 Toulouse 131,944 easyJet, Twin Jet 8 Ajaccio, Corsica 126,302 Air Corsica 9 Lyon 114,572 Air France 10 Strasbourg 112,465 easyJet, Volotea

Busiest international routes + Top 20 busiest international routes from/to Nice (2023)Rank (2023) Changefrom2022 Airport Passengers Airline(s)1 London–Heathrow628,087Air France, British Airways2 London–Gatwick580,221Air France, British Airways, easyJet3 1 Geneva421,724easyJet, Swiss International Air Lines4 1 Amsterdam410,738easyJet, KLM, Transavia5 1 Rome–Fiumicino388,459easyJet, ITA Airways, Wizz Air6 3 Barcelona291,247easyJet, Vueling7 1 Copenhagen289,988Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines8 1 Frankfurt280,787Lufthansa9 Brussels275,713Brussels Airlines, easyJet10 Munich251,096Lufthansa11 Zürich242,244Swiss International Air Lines12 1 Lisbon234,325easyJet, TAP Air Portugal13 1 Vienna229,140Austrian Airlines, Wizz Air14 1 Dubai–International228,132Emirates15 1 Stockholm–Arlanda207,504Eurowings, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines16 2 Madrid204,471easyJet, Iberia17 Basel/Mulhouse194,910easyJet18 Oslo188,449Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines19 Istanbul188,408Turkish Airlines20 Tunis183,429Nouvelair, Transavia, Tunisair

Ground transportation The airport is at the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. Since December 2018, Nice tramway line 2 connects the airport to the Port of Nice (Lympia Port) via the Grand Arénas interchange. Also located at this interchange, some 400 meters from the airport, is the train station Nice Saint Augustin. Trams run every 8 minutes during the day; a separate tramline runs from the airport to the western suburbs. Additionally, bus route 12 connects the airport with Promenade des Artes via the old town.

Société Naviplane Ferry In 1969 an experimental and short-lived ferry service utilized two N.300 Naviplane hovercraft. The airport was connected to Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco and San-Remo.

Accidents and incidents On 9 April 1949, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BATU of Air France overran the runway and was damaged beyond economic repair. On 3 March 1952, SNCASE Languedoc P/7 F-BCUM of Air France crashed shortly after take-off; all 38 people on board died. The cause of the accident was that the aileron controls had jammed. The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Nice to Orly Airport, Paris. On 11 September 1968, Air France Flight 1611 en route from Ajaccio, in the island of Corsica, to Nice, France crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice; all 95 on board died. A memorial is located near the airport. On 3 September 1979, Sterling Airways Flight 4133 an Aérospatiale Corvette (Registration: OY-SBS) crashed into the sea south of the airport on a flight from Coventry Airport to Nice. All 10 passengers and crew died in the crash.

See also List of the busiest airports in France

Notes

References

External links

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

Accident history for NCE at Aviation Safety Network