Le Havre – Octeville Airport (french: Aéroport du Havre-Octeville) is an

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serving the city of

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very ...

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. The airport is located in Octeville-sur-Mer,

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of Le Havre, both

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in the

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...

department in the

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

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in northern France.

Facilities

The airport resides at an

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of above

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. It has one paved

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designated 05/23 which measures .

Airlines and destinations

After

Twin Jet Twin Jet is a French regional airline based in Aix en Provence. History Twin Jet was founded in May 2001 and operated its first scheduled flight in March 2002. The company operates 250 flights a week mainly on domestic routes within France a ...

left, there are currently no scheduled services to or from Le Havre. There are however irregular charter flights taking people to beaches in Southern Europe and Greece

Statistics

References

External links

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''Aéroport du Havre-Octeville''
official site * *
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