Brest Bretagne Airport , formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an airport

Airport

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 serving the French

France

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 city of Brest

Brest, France

Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

. It is located in the commune

Communes of the Finistère département

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of Guipavas

Guipavas

Guipavas is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.The city is divided into two major parts: the west, known as the dynamic core of the city and surburban area of Brest, where a new commercial centre opened in 2007, and the east, which is more traditional and...

 and 10.2km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère

Finistère

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.

Though the main operator is Air France (and subsidiaries Brit Air and Regional), serving for the most part Paris and Lyon, other scheduled services are offered to Ireland

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 and the UK

United Kingdom

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, noticeably by Ryanair

Ryanair

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 and Flybe

Flybe

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. The aggressive efforts the Chamber of Commerce conducted allowed the airport to grow dramatically over the past decade thanks to charter airlines, as can be seen below.

In summer of 2011, long-due replacement of the ILS all-weather landing system causes numerous aborted landings/re-routing of passenger jets when foggy conditions occur, affecting all companies operating to/from this airport.

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Brest Bretagne Airport (official site)
• Aéroport de Brest Bretagne (Union des Aéroports Français)