<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Lyon&ndash;Saint-Exup&eacute;ry Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Early years </strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was inaugurated by President Val&eacute;ry Giscard d'Estaing on 12 April 1975, and opened to passengers a week later. It was designed to replace the old Lyon&ndash;Bron Airport, which is now only used for general aviation.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 1994, the LGV Rh&ocirc;ne-Alpes high-speed rail line brought TGV service to the airport, providing direct trains to Paris and Marseille. The fan-shaped canopy of the Gare de Lyon Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the airport's most notable architectural feature.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Since 1997, the airport has been a focus city for the airline Air France.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Development since the 2000s</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was originally named Lyon Satolas Airport, after the nearby eponymous village, but in 2000 the airport and train station were renamed in honour of Lyonnais aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, on the centenary of his birth.</p>
<p class="blog-para">He was a native of Lyon, and a laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Acad&eacute;mie fran&ccedil;aise, and died in World War II.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 2013, the airport served 8,562,298 passengers, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year. Air freight increased by 22.7% to 44,820 tonnes, although overall aircraft movements dropped by 2.8% to 113,420.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Lyon&ndash;Saint-Exup&eacute;ry Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport consists of passenger terminals 1 and 2 which are interconnected on the landside by a central building that itself has a foot-bridge to the nearby Gare de Lyon Saint-Exup&eacute;ry high-speed railway station and the Rh&ocirc;nexpress terminus. The airport also features two runways as well as cargo facilities. A total of 16,000 car spaces in four car parks (P2-P5) are available. Two of the parks are underground (P2 and P3) while the long-stay parks (P4 and P5) are located at a distance from the terminals behind the railway station.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Terminal 1</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">Terminal 1 consists of two parts: The older part is a two-storey, slightly curved, brick shape building which contains the check-in areas 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 as well as departure areas G and F on the upper level with the arrivals on the ground level. In 2014, A&eacute;roports de Lyon started the construction of a new terminal expansion, which doubled the capacity and the area, with 70,000 m2.Four groups took part in the tender process to design and develop the expanded Terminal 1.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Terminal 2</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">Terminal 2 is a duplicate of the older part of Terminal 1, containing check-in areas 20 and 21 with boarding areas Q and P on the upper level and arrivals facilities on the lower level. This terminal area is mainly used by Air France.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Terminal 3</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The former Terminal 3 was a very basic facility used by low-cost carriers. It was demolished during Terminal 1 expansion. The satellite building is still open, however; it now houses the &lsquo;D&rsquo; gates for low cost airlines such as easyJet.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground transportation Lyon&ndash;Saint-Exup&eacute;ry Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Rail</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The Rh&ocirc;nexpress tramway began operations in August 2010 and links Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu east of Lyon's city centre with Gare de Lyon Saint-Exup&eacute;ry next to the airport in approximately 30 minutes using and sharing existing tracks of the Lyon tramway as well as a newly constructed route. This tramway replaced the former coach shuttle services (Satobus) that operated beforehand leaving the airport with no other public connections to the city centre.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The Gare de Lyon Saint-Exup&eacute;ry station is also served by the LGV Rh&ocirc;ne-Alpes high speed rail line.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Coach</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">Coach links connect the airport with the centre of other towns in the area including Grenoble (at least once an hour), Saint-&Eacute;tienne and Chamb&eacute;ry. Bus operators also offer a coach shuttle service to the surrounding French ski resorts, including Tignes, Val d'Isere, Val Thorens and more.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Electric car service</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport has an electric car sharing station. Bollor&eacute; Bluecar vehicles are available for rent.</p>
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