Cannes – Mandelieu Airport or ''Aéroport de Cannes - Mandelieu'' is an
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
serving the city of
Cannes
Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions I ...
. It is located 5 km west of Cannes
and east of
Mandelieu-la-Napoule, both ''
communes'' of the
Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes (; oc, Aups Maritims; it, Alpi Marittime, "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it ...
''
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ...
'' in the
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur ''
région
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (french: régions, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collect ...
'' of
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
.
Dominique Thillaud is the President of Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA), which includes
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur) is an international airport located southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes ''départment'' of France. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus ...
and Cannes – Mandelieu Airport.
Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur (ACA) announced on July 26, 2013, it has acquired 99.9% of shares of AGST (
Saint-Tropez Airport), previously owned by the Reybier group for the past 15 years.
Statistics
See also
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Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano
References
External links
''Aéroport Cannes Mandelieu''(official site)
''Aéroport de Cannes - Mandelieu''(''Union des Aéroports Français'')
''Cannes Mandelieu - LFMD''- WikiAirports
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Airports in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Buildings and structures in Alpes-Maritimes
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