Brest Bretagne Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Brest Bretagne) , formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an

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serving

Brest, France Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French ...

. It is located in the '' commune'' of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the ''

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'' of

Finistère Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.

Overview

Though the main operator is

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(and subsidiary '' HOP!''), serving for the most part

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, other scheduled services are offered elsewhere in France and to the

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. The aggressive efforts the Chamber of Commerce conducted allowed the airport to grow dramatically over the past decade thanks to

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s, as can be seen below.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Brest Bretagne Airport:

Statistics

References

External links

Brest Bretagne Airport
(official site)
''Aéroport de Brest Bretagne''
(''Union des Aéroports Français'') * * {{Authority control Airports in Brittany Transport in Brest, France Buildings and structures in Brest, France