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Bastia - Poretta Airport
Bastia - Poretta Airport; Aéroport de Bastia Poretta
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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 / 42.55000°N 9.48472°ECoordinates: 42°33?00?N 009°29?05?E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E
Website	bastia.aeroport.fr
Map
	LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica LFKB LFKB (France)
Runways
Statistics (2018)
Passengers	1,525,159
Passenger traffic change	8.9%
	Source: French AIP, Aeroport.fr

Bastia - Poretta Airport (French: Aéroport de Bastia Poretta, 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:^{[clarification needed]}

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

Airlines	Destinations
Air Corsica	Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris-Orly Seasonal: Charleroi,^[4]Dole, Liège,^[5]London-Stansted, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle,^[6]Toulon
Air France	Paris-Orly Seasonal: Bordeaux, Castres, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Metz-Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes, Pau, Perpignan, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
ASL Airlines France	Seasonal: Oujda, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal: Copenhagen
British Airways	Seasonal: London-Heathrow^[7]
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels^[8]
Chalair Aviation	Seasonal: Limoges, Perpignan^[9]
easyJet	Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Lyon, Manchester, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Venice
easyJet Switzerland	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna
HOP!	Seasonal: Angers, Bordeaux, Rouen
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid^[10]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Munich, Frankfurt
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels
Volotea	Seasonal: Brest, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Madrid,^[11]Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona

References

^ ^a ^b LFKB - BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 7 November 2019.
^ "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 2019.
^
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
- 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.
^ http://www.aircorsica.com/avion/billet-avion-bastia.html?language=en
^ http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_une-ligne-reguliere-vers-la-corse-au-depart-de-liege-des-le-mois-d-avril?id=8103283
^ http://www.corsematin.com/article/article/la-corse-connectee-a-lannee-avec-laeroport-de-paris-roissy
^ http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2018-247/10199?ref=Home
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ airline's website
^ https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/283064/iberia-further-expands-european-routes-in-s19/
^ Da Silva, Gil (7 November 2018). "Bastia - Madrid, nouvelle ligne avec Volotea (Espagne)" (in French). QuelleCompagnie.com. Retrieved 2018.

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

[AIP-1] LFKB - BASTIA PORETTA. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 7 November 2019.

[AER-2] "Résultats d'activité des aéroports français 2018" (PDF). aeroport.fr. Retrieved 2019.

[3] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
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] ttp://www.aircorsica.com/avion/billet-avion-bastia.html?language=en

[5] ttp://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_une-ligne-reguliere-vers-la-corse-au-depart-de-liege-des-le-mois-d-avril?id=8103283

[6] ttp://www.corsematin.com/article/article/la-corse-connectee-a-lannee-avec-laeroport-de-paris-roissy

[7] ttp://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease/details/86/2018-247/10199?ref=Home

[8] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[9] rline's website

[10] ttps://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/283064/iberia-further-expands-european-routes-in-s19/

[11] Da Silva, Gil (7 November 2018). "Bastia - Madrid, nouvelle ligne avec Volotea (Espagne)" (in French). QuelleCompagnie.com. Retrieved 2018.

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