Bastia – Poretta Airport

Bastia – Poretta Airport

*Aéroport de Bastia Poretta*
Bastia – Poretta Airport; Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
	IATA: BIA; ICAO: LFKB;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
Serves	Bastia, Corsica, France
Location	Lucciana
Elevation AMSL	26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E
Website	bastia.aeroport.fr
Map
	LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica LFKB LFKB (France)
Runways
Statistics (2022)
Passengers
Passengers	1,489,038
Passenger traffic change	24.1%
	Source: French AIP,[1] Aeroport.fr[2]

Bastia – Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta; Corsican: Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta), IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.

History

Airphoto of Borgo Airfield, 15 August 1944. Note the large number of B-17s on the parking apron, probably used during the Invasion of Southern France.

In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

USAAF combat units assigned:

414th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 5 February–July 1944; 5 September – 13 October 1944, Bristol Beaufighter
527th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, (Twelfth Air Force), 12 July-23 September 1944, P-47 Thunderbolt
416th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 14–23 August 1944, P-61 Black Widow
417th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), February–April 1944; 25 April – 7 September 1944, Bristol Beaufighter[3]
5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
23rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, (XII Tactical Air Command), 21 July – 27 August 1944, P-51/F-6 Mustang
42nd Bombardment Wing was headquartered at the airfield, 21 September – 24 November 1944.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bastia – Poretta irport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air Corsica	Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Charleroi,[4] Dole, Gothenburg, Toulon
Air France	Paris–Orly Seasonal: Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Metz/Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pau, Perpignan, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow[5]
easyJet	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lisbon (begins 29 March 2023),[6] London–Gatwick, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Lübeck Air	Seasonal: Bern (begins 14 May 2023),[7] Lübeck[8]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia	Seasonal: Brest, Gothenburg (begins 8 July 2023),[9] Rotterdam/The Hague[10]
Volotea	Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BIA airport. See Wikidata query.

References

LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 23 March 2023.
"Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2022" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
- Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
"Flights to Corsica | Air Corsica".
"Summer Schedule Shapes up".
https://www.jm-madeira.pt/nacional/ver/194063/EasyJet_anuncia_15_novas_rotas_para_o_verao_a_partir_de_Lisboa_
"Summer 2023 schedule - Bern Airport".
https://www.luebeck-air.de/files/content/DOWNLOADS/pdf/Europakarte%20EN%20oJ.pdf Archived 18 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine
https://centreforaviation.com/news/transavia-france-launching-bastia-gothenburg-service-from-jul-2023-1189050
"Transavia start ticketverkoop naar (nieuwe) zomerbestemmingen 2022" [Transavia starts ticketsales to new summer 2022 destinations]. Luchtvaartnieuws.nl (in Dutch). 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

External links

Media related to Bastia Airport at Wikimedia Commons

Bastia Airport (official site) (in English)
Aéroport de Bastia-Poretta at Union des Aéroports Français (in French)
Current weather for LFKB at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for BIA at Aviation Safety Network

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[AIP-1] LFKB – BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 23 March 2023.

[AER-2] "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2022" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 28 March 2023.

[3] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

[4] Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

[5] Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

[4] "Flights to Corsica | Air Corsica".

[5] "Summer Schedule Shapes up".

[6] ttps://www.jm-madeira.pt/nacional/ver/194063/EasyJet_anuncia_15_novas_rotas_para_o_verao_a_partir_de_Lisboa_

[BRN2023-7] "Summer 2023 schedule - Bern Airport".

[8] ttps://www.luebeck-air.de/files/content/DOWNLOADS/pdf/Europakarte%20EN%20oJ.pdf Archived 18 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine

[9] ttps://centreforaviation.com/news/transavia-france-launching-bastia-gothenburg-service-from-jul-2023-1189050

[10] "Transavia start ticketverkoop naar (nieuwe) zomerbestemmingen 2022" [Transavia starts ticketsales to new summer 2022 destinations]. Luchtvaartnieuws.nl (in Dutch). 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.