Facade, Avignon AirportAvignon-Provence airport is perfectly positioned for such tourist attractions as L'Isle sur la Sorgue, the ochre trail and lavender fields of the Luberon, the Pont du Gard and Avignon itself and Saint Rémy, Les Baux, Orange and Carpentras.

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Sometimes called Avignon-Caumont or just plain Avignon, this little airport has had, until recently, a very British feel, with most passengers arriving from the UK.

NewsThe main airline serving Britain, Flybe, collapsed in 2020. It was refinanced and announced a schedule of flights to and from Birmingham in 2023, but then ceased trading in late January. Watch this space for further developments.

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If by any chance you happen to have your own private jet, Avignon can accommodate that too (up to 130-seaters) and will give you the VIP treatment. It's the only airport in South-East France to offer this facility, apart from Cannes.

Map of Avignon airportCreated as an aerodrome in 1937, Avignon airport was initially used for freight traffic, and first opened its doors to international passenger flights in 2006.

It sits in an unlovely urban sprawl of strip development nine km / five miles south-east of Avignon and six km / three miles from the nearby town of Caumont sur Durance. The closest village is Montfavet.

It's just off the national road RN7 and the A7 motorway (take the Avignon Sud exit). Click here for a road map of the area around Avignon airport.

The IATA code of Avignon airport is AVN and its address is 335 avenue Clément Ader, 84140 Avignon. Tel: (+33) 4 90 81 51 42. Website for Avignon airport

 

FACILITIES AT AVIGNON-PROVENCE AIRPORT

Avignon airport has three runways (only one of which is tarmac), two boarding gates and a handful of check-in desks. It would be difficult to get lost in this tiny terminal.

Oddly, the ticket booking desk is prominently labelled Air France, even though this airline does not operate out of Avignon (however it does run flights from Marseille-Provence airport). But you can buy tickets for other airlines, such as Flybe, at this desk.

La Provence Vue d'Avion (Provence By Plane) offers tourist flights lasting between 15 and 30 minutes over Avignon and the surrounding countryside including Arles, the Pont du Gard, Saint Rémy and Les Baux de Provence. Tel: (+33) 4 90 92 22 84 or (+33) 6 14 81 34 85. Website for La Provence Vue d'Avion

Other facilities include a gift shop that sells provençal fabrics and other souvenirs, a business lounge, toilets with baby-changing tables, copious tourist information and a phone booth. A notable omission: there is no cash dispenser (ATM) in Avignon airport.

Three car-parks offer a total of 300 spaces: P1 (short term), P2 (long-term) and P3 (rental cars). Website for Avignon airport car-parks Tel: (+33) 4 90 81 51 15.

Built all on one level, the airport has excellent disabled access, with designated parking spaces, ramps, special toilets and telephone cabins and a wheelchair service.

Though the terminal itself is very compact, it's set in a rather sprawling complex. If you go out, turn left and walk for around five minutes, you will see an old Caravelle plane from the early 1950s parked outside another building.

This is the Vaucluse Flying Club (Aéroclub Vauclusien), which celebrated its centenary in 2011 and which offers flying lessons and organises a big annual air show each year in late September. Tel: (+33) 4 90 84 17 17. Website for the Vaucluse Flying Club

Bar in Avignon airportFor an airport of its modest size, Avignon is unusually well-supplied with food and drink outlets.

Inside the terminal the Restaurant Mamma serves Italian and classic French cuisine.

It's open for lunch only from Monday to Friday, and on Saturday too in summer. Evenings by reservation. Tel: (+33) 7 86 80 23 37. Website for Mamma restaurant at Avignon airport

The chain restaurant, Courtepaille, which specialises in grills, is on the main roundabout about a five minute walk from the terminal building. Tel: (+33) 4 90 84 19 60.

Also a short walk away is a small Best Western hotel and restaurant with a typically provençal tiled roof, its own car-park and, handily, a trolley-park.

GETTING TO AND FROM AVIGNON AIRPORT

There are currently few easy ways to get to Avignon airport by public transport from either the city centre or Avignon TGV station. Click here to view the options currently available.

Taxis leave from in front of the terminal building. Expect to wait for up to an hour for one in the peak season. Alternatively, you can pre-book a holiday taxi to or from Avignon airport here.

Avignon airport also offers a VIP limousine service by prior reservation. Tel: (+33) 6 83 76 01 70.

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Several car hire companies, including Avis and Europcar, have desks at Avignon airport. Their vehicles are parked in P3, on the left as you come out of the terminal.

Note that the desks are are only manned at times of flight arrivals, but if you are returning your rental car out of office hours you can leave the keys in a drop-box in the departure lounge.

There is a petrol / gas station just outside the airport at 4316 route de Marseille (the N7).

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