Cheap Low-Cost Flights to Lyon Airport in France
Budget Airlines Fly to Aéroport Saint Exupéry in the Rhone Alps
Sep 17, 2008
EasyJet and other low-cost airlines fly to Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS), the fourth busiest airport in France. This allow for cheap tickets on some flights helping to make Lyon Airport a popular springboard for travelers to the nearby winter sport resorts such as Grenoble in the French Alps.
Despite an astonishing number of Michelin star rated restaurants, Lyon is still more a business than tourist destination. As a result, a huge number of flights are available on traditional airlines to most major European cities. North African destinations are also well served with several airlines flying to especially Algerian and Moroccan cities from Lyon.
- Lyon Airport is formally called Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry after the locally-born writer and aviation enthusiast Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Cheap Flights to Lyon Airport (LYS) on Low-Cost Airlines
EasyJet has the largest presence of the traditional European low-cost airlines at Lyon Airport. From Lyon, EasyJet flies to Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Casablanca, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech, Oporto, Rome-Ciampino, Toulouse, and Venice.
Other low-cost airlines flying to Lyon include Aer Lingus (Dublin), Blue Air (Bucharest-Baneasa), bmi (Manchester) and Brussels Airlines (Brussels).
- The number of low-cost and charter flights increases in winter due to the proximity of popular French ski resorts in the Rhone-Alps (Rhône-Alpes) region.
Direct Flights to Lyon Airport (LYS) on Air France
Air France has by far the largest number of flights from Lyon with Paris´s airports by far the most frequent destination – mostly for connecting flights as TGV trains take only two hours between Lyon and downtown Paris. Air France flies from Lyon to Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse, Tunis, and Zurich.
Various subsidiaries fly for Air France from Lyon Airport to Ajaccio, Barcelona, Basel-Mulhouse, Bastia, Biarritz, Birmingham, Bologna, Brest, Brussels, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Limoges, Lorient, Madrid, Marseilles, Metz-Nancy, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Munich, Pau Poitiers, Prague, Rennes, Rome-Fiumicino, Strasbourg, and Stuttgart.
Flights on traditional airlines are mostly aimed at business travelers and can be expensive. However, deals are often available on advance bookings while connecting flights added to long-distance flights may be cheaper and more convenient than changing to trains or other forms of ground transportation.
Direct Flights to Lyon Airport (LYS) from North Africa
Many North African cities can be reached on direct flights from Lyon Airport. In addition to holiday and European charters, regular flights include:
- Aigle Azur flies to Algiers, Chlef, Constantine, Oran, and Setif
- Air Algérie flies to Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Bejaia, Constantine, Oran, and Setif
- Air Senegal International flies to Dakar
- Atlas Blue flies to Marrakesh
- Royal Air Maroc flies to Casablanca
- Tunisair flies to Djerba, Monastir, and Tunis
Direct Intercontinental Flights to Lyon Airport (LYS)
Most intercontinental travelers to Lyon are likely to transit via Paris or other European cities such as Amsterdam (KLM) or Frankfurt (Lufthansa). However, direct flights are available from New York-JFK on Delta, while the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Reunion can be reached on Crossairfly and Air Austral.
- Ground transportation from Saint-Exupéry Airport to Lyon is relatively easy with transfer services available to Alpine towns such as Grenoble. The number of transfer options to winter sport resorts increases dramatically during the ski season. Geneva Airport in Switzerland is a good alternative for cheap flights especially for travelers heading to the French Alps.
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