Marseille Provence Airport (MRS/LFML)

New routes and frequency possibilities and why these routes would work

EUROPE
Athens (ATH) : Top unserved European destination from MRS (Now served by Air France)
  • Up to 50,000 scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft capacity, frequencies, and connecting possibilities
  • Large Greek community in South East France
  • High business flows to expect (Harbor related traffic + LePirée/Marseille twinning)
  • MRS-Greece existing charter traffic : 51,000 pax in 2010 (+15% vs 2009; 2nd largest charter market from MRS)

Marseille Provence Airport offers two airports in one: the mp1 terminal dedicated to legacy carriers, and mp² – the first and original low cost terminal in Europe.
Istanbul (IST) (Now served by Air France & Pegasus Airlines)
  • Up to 60,000 scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft capacity, frequencies, and connecting possibilities
  • Large Turkish community in MRS vicinity
  • Very dynamic MRS-Turkey Charter Market : 50,000 pax in 2010 (+33% vs 2009)
Hamburg (HAM) (To be served by Air France from April 2012)
  • Up to 35,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Business oriented profile (Harbor related flows + Marseille/Hamburg twinning + EADS plants in both MRS & HAM Airport)
Berlin (TXL or SXF)
  • Up to 35,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a seasonal service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Balanced Incoming/Outgoing market
  • Highly requested by business passengers and city breakers
Copenhagen (CPH) (Now served by Air France)
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Balanced Incoming/Outgoing market
  • Spectacular ongoing growth of the indirect MRS-CPH OD for 3 years
Bucharest (OTP or BBU)
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Strong potential for VFR
  • Ongoing growth of OD traffic despite increasing average fares and current long journey times (via CDG, PRG, AMS…)
Budapest (BUD) :
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • List of TOs interested in building packages to BUD available on request
Vienna (VIE) :
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a seasonal service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Balanced Incoming/Outgoing traffic + opportunity to operate year-round in the near future (softened OD traffic seasonality)
  • List of TOs interested in building packages to VIE available on request
AFRICA
Cairo (CAI) :
  • MRS is France's largest regional airport in volume of OD traffic to CAI
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Significant Egyptian community in Marseille area
  • Existing direct charter traffic (7.500 pax in 2010; +17%) and increasing overall MRS-Egypt charter traffic (33,000 pax; +33% vs 2009)
Dakar (DKR) : Unserved since Air Senegal International ceased operations in April 2009
  • Up to 25,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft and capacity
  • Large Senegalese community in MRS territory
  • Existing charter traffic to DKR (11,000 pax in 2010)
NORTH AMERICA:
New York (NYC) :
  • Up to 150,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft capacity, frequencies, and connecting possibilities
  • Business potential (Microelectronics, Biotechnology, Aeronautics, Cosmetics, Oil industry)
  • 1 million Cruise passengers expected in MRS by 2012. Airborne feeding need from USA to MRS requested by cruise companies to operate ships turnarounds in MRS.
MIDDLE EAST (AUH, DXB, DOH):
  • Up to 125,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft capacity, frequencies, and connecting possibilities
  • Strong Freight potential with balanced Import/Export flows (about 25,000 tons per year to/from Middle East/Asia/Pacific/Southern Africa)
ASIA:
Beijing (PEK) :
  • Up to 110,000 OD scheduled pax to expect, with a year round service, depending on aircraft capacity, frequencies, and connecting possibilities
  • High Yield market (CMA-CGM, 3rd ship owner worldwide + EADS Eurocopter HQs located in Marseille)
  • Strong Freight Potential : China being the 3rd largest importer in MRS area.

Other major reasons to serve this airport

  • Marseille, 2nd French City in terms of inhabitants after Paris
  • Dynamic City: Worldwide Water Forum in 2012, Seatrade Med in 2012, European Capital of Culture in 2013...
  • Best gateway to the famous Provence : welcome www.flyprovence.com/en/
  • Largest French cruise port located only 15 minutes from the airport: 1 million cruise passengers expected by 2012
  • A multimodal airport linked to the whole South-Eastern France by train and buses.

Award-winning low cost, but not low quality – Marseille Provence took the Best Airport Budgie at the 2009 World Low Cost Airlines Congress while mp2 has also won ACI EUROPE’s Best Airport in the 5-10m category.

Marketing and other support

  • Lowest airport charges (PDF file downloadable) amongst main French regional airports
  • Attractive Incentive schemes for new routes : discount on airport charges and marketing support. For more information, please contact the route network development manager
  • Now Additional Incentive Schemes for traffic development
  • Marketing and communication tools for new routes (websites, newsletters, banners, billboards, press conferences, press trips, media plans…)

The city of Marseille and the highly-desirable Provence catchment: Excellent land transportation including e-cheque car parking, direct to airport rail links, and a modern urban transport system, produce a 60 minute driving catchment of 2.5m inhabitants.

Catchment Area

  • Ideally situated at the heart of the Mediterranean basin, and at the intersection of Europe's North/South and East/West axes, MRS is very well-served by motorways
  • Excellent network of surface transportation with trains and buses desserving the whole South-Eastern France
  • Low-cost parking (E-cheque parking) : from 1.5€ per day
  • Strong connecting flight opportunities to French Provinces and Corsica
  • Catchment area :
    • 30 min. driving catchment area = 1.4 million inhabitants
    • 60 min. driving catchment area = 2.5 million inhabitants
    • 120 min. driving catchment area = 7.5 million inhabitants

Under-served freight opportunities and other economic impact factors

Besides all the benefits of being a major port city, some major corporations have made Marseille their home, generating important cargo flows including EADS' Eurocopter and the world’s largest container ship operator CMA-CGM.

  • MRS = France's 1st regional airport in cargo volume (52,000 tons in 2010)
  • Central Position for Cargo traffic in Western Mediterranean Basin (Complementarities Harbour/Airport for Cargo Transportation)
  • Major Cargo Hub in Southern France with a strong network to North Africa
  • Largest French cold storage facilities outside Paris.
  • Worldwide Hub for drill manufacturing (scheduled freight services to Hassi Messaoud)
  • MRS to become an Express Cargo Hub in the Western Mediterranean Basin (for the account of UPS, DHL, TNT)

For more information, please contact:
Jean-Marc Boutigny
Cargo Manager
Tel: +33 4 42 14 27 88
Email: jean-marc.boutigny@mrs.aero

Easy access to Provence and the entire Mediterranean Coast.

Geography

  • 15 minutes away from Marseille and Aix en Provence (motorways).
  • Bus departure every 20 minutes to Marseille City
  • Bus departure every 30 minutes to Aix-en-Provence
  • Train station within MRS airport site : Easy access by regional train to/from the whole French Mediterranean Coast (from Montpellier to Nice and the French Riviera)

Infrastructure & Operations

  • Two independent runways: 3,500m and 2,700m available for simultaneous use (incl. 1 ILS - CAT 3)
  • No slot constraints (largest non-coordinated French airport)

Two independent runways and the capacity to cater for up to 12m passengers in comfort without the need for further investment.

  • Capacity: 30 movements/hour (current average 22 movements/hour) and ability to handle 12 million passengers without any new investment
  • Open 24/7
  • Excellent weather conditions
  • 2 airports in 1: mp1 terminal: dedicated to legacy carriers and mp² terminal: dedicated to low cost carriers (opened in November 2006, 1st low cost terminal in Europe)
  • Existing turnaround time in mp² = 25 min; in mp1 = 30 min.
  • Business aviation dedicated terminal
  • Car Park Area: 12,000 places

Vital statistics

With over 100 existing direct routes, MRS has the critical mass and a balanced business-leisure mix.

  • Pax traffic in 2010 - new historical record : 7.52 million passengers (of which 1.7 million low cost passengers)
  • Traffic breakdown : 47% national / 53% international
  • Reasons for travel:
    • In mp1 = 41% business / 34% leisure / 22% VFR / 3% others
    • In mp2 = 14% business / 47% leisure / 36% VFR / 3% others
  • 130 direct routes (100 scheduled + 30 charter) and 40 passenger airlines (35 scheduled)
  • 21 new scheduled routes launched in 2011:
    • New Destinations : Venice (VCE), Palermo, Helsinki, Biarritz, Beirut, Dusseldorf (DUS), Copenhagen, Athens, Moscow, Istanbul (IST), Milan (BGY)
    • Additional services on existing routes: Pau, Brest, Toulouse, Milan (MXP), Prague, Basel-Mulhouse, Casablanca, Agadir, Marrakech, Eindhoven
  • Freight = 52,000 tons carried (+7% vs 2009)

Financials

Airport charge: click here

KEY FACTS

Route Development Contact

Véronique Lemée-Alexandre
Position

Route Network Development Manager
Address
Marseille Provence Airport Marketing & Communication department B.P.7 – 13727 Marignane Cedex – France
Contact

Tel: +33 (0)4 42 14 26 30
Mob: +33 (0)6 30 21 69 48
Fax: +33 (0)4 42 14 29 90
Contact
Website
www.mp.aeroport.fr
www.mp2.aeroport.fr