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Liege Airport
Aéroport de Liège

IATA: LGG
ICAO: EBLG

Summary

Airport type

Public

Owner

Walloon government & private investors

Operator

Liege Airport s.a.

Serves

Liège

Location

Grâce-Hollogne, Liège Province, Belgium

Hub for

Operating base for

TUI fly Belgium

Elevation AMSL

201 m / 659 ft

Coordinates

50°38′11″N 005°26′34″E / 50.63639°N 5.44278°E / 50.63639; 5.44278

Website

www.liegeairport.com

Map

LGG/EBLGLocation in Belgium

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
04R/22L	3,690	12,106	Asphalt
04L/22R	2,340	7,677	Asphalt

Statistics (2018)

Freight (tonnes)	871.000
Passengers	299.292

Sources: Belgian AIP

Liege Airport (IATA: LGG, ICAO: EBLG) — previously called Liege-Bierset Airport – is an international airport located in Grâce-Hollogne, 5 nautical miles (9.3 kilometres; 5.8 miles) west of the city of Liège, Belgium. The airport mainly focuses on air freight. At the end of 2021, freight traffic reached 1,412,498 tonnes (+26%). Liege Airport is now the 5th biggest cargo airport in Europe and the 22nd biggest in the world.

Overview

The airport is located in Grâce-Hollogne, Liège Province, north-west of the city of Liege, in the east of Belgium. The first terminal on the site opened in 1930.

It is mainly used for freight/cargo operations, but also serves a number of destinations for passengers (mainly charters). Liege is located in the centre of the golden triangle Paris – Amsterdam – Frankfurt that handles 66% of European freight, and 75% when taken together with London. In 2018, it was the seventh biggest cargo airport in Europe. Liege Airport is the biggest cargo airport in Belgium, and the third-biggest for passengers after Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport. It is the global hub of ASL Airlines Belgium (the former TNT Airways) and is also used by several other cargo carriers on a scheduled or irregular basis.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

As of July 2023, TUI fly Belgium is the only airline offering scheduled and seasonal passenger flights at Liege Airport.

Airlines	Destinations
TUI fly Belgium	Alicante, Gran Canaria, Kayseri, Málaga, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Casablanca, Djerba, Enfidha, Heraklion, Nador (begins 25 June 2025), Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tangier

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Air Canada Cargo	Basel/Mulhouse, Toronto–Pearson
Air China Cargo	Hangzhou, Shanghai–Pudong
ASL Airlines Belgium	Chicago–O'Hare, Halifax, Hangzhou, Jinan, New York–JFK, Shanghai–Pudong, Tokyo–Narita
Atlas Air	Almaty, Atlanta, Birmingham (AL), Chicago–O'Hare, Indianapolis, Mexico City–AIFA, Miami, Milan–Malpensa, Seoul–Incheon, Singapore, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Zaragoza
Beijing Capital Airlines	Nanchang
CAL Cargo Air Lines	Atlanta, Larnaca, Mexico City, New York–JFK, Oslo, Tel Aviv, Toronto–Pearson
China Cargo Airlines	Yantai
CMA CGM Air Cargo	Atlanta, Chicago–O'Hare, Hong Kong
Compass Cargo Airlines	Sofia, Zhengzhou
Ethiopian Cargo	Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Budapest, Chongqing, Copenhagen, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo, Juba, Lagos, Miami, New York–JFK, Shanghai–Pudong, Zaragoza
FedEx Feeder	Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Munich, Milan–Malpensa, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Vienna
Icelandair Cargo	Reykjavík–Keflavík
Magma Aviation	Abuja, Accra, Atlanta, Bamako, Brazzaville, Chicago–O'Hare, Douala, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Entebbe, Greenville/Spartanburg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo, Kigali, Kinshasa–N'djili, Lagos, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Mumbai, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Niamey, Ouagadougou
MSC Air Cargo	Atlanta, Indianapolis, Mexico City–AIFA, Seoul–Incheon
Network Aviation Group	Abuja, Accra, Bangui, Brazzaville, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Entebbe, Hong Kong, Lagos, Libreville, Luanda, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, New York–JFK, Port Harcourt
Qatar Airways Cargo	Atlanta, Chicago–O'Hare, Doha, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Mexico City
SF Airlines	Qingdao

Statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at LGG airport. See Wikidata query.

Accidents and incidents

On February 20, 2021, a Boeing 747-400 freighter airplane, flying Longtail Aviation flight 5504, which was bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City from the nearby Maastricht Aachen Airport in the Netherlands, had to divert to the airport after take-off after one engine caught fire and debris fell over the town of Meerssen. Two people on the ground were injured.

Ground transportation

By car

The airport is located next to the E42 (exit 3), close to an important highway junction.

By bus

An express bus (number 57) links the airport to Liege-Guillemins where connections can be made with local, national and high speed international trains (Thalys, ICE). Bus number 53 goes to Liege city centre (Place Saint-Lambert) where connections are available with Liege-Saint-Lambert railway station and bus hub, and to Pont-de-Seraing railway station and bus hub. Buses 83 and 85 connect the airport with Liege's city centre (Place Saint-Lambert) where connections are available with Liege-Saint-Lambert railway station and bus hub, and Bierset-Awans railway station.