Nîmes–Alès–Camargue–Cévennes Airport
Nîmes–Alès–Camargue–Cévennes Airport
Nîmes Airport or Nîmes–Alès–Camargue–Cévennes
Airport (French: Aéroport de Nîmes-Alès-Camargue-Cévennes (IATA: FNI, ICAO:
LFTW) is an airport located 9 km (4.9 NM) south-southeast of the city of Nîmes,
in the village of Saint-Gilles near Garons. It is also known as Garons Airport
or Nîmes Garons Airport. The airport
serves the Provence region, including the communes of Nîmes and Alès in the
Gard department, the Camargue area and the Cévennes.
It currently has some commercial
services, operated by Irish carrier Ryanair however it also serves as a naval air
base. The Frence navy (Marine Nationale) pulled out of here some years ago.
Their former faiciities are now used by the Armee de Terre. The Securite Civile
flying base formerly at Marseille (LFML) has now moved here.
Facilities
The airport is at an elevation of
309 feet (94 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 18/36
which measures 2,443 by 45 metres (8,015 ft × 148 ft).
Controversy
In April 2012, the European
Commission announced that it had launched an in-depth investigation into the
financial arrangements that Nîmes Airport had with public authorities and
Ryanair. The investigation would determine if public subsidies given to the
airport, as well as rebates and marketing agreements with Ryanair, breached EU
rules on state aid. The Commission announced that it would examine the
following issues:
whether public subsidies of over
€2 million and cash advances totalling over €9 million received by the Chamber
of Commerce between 2000 and 2006 and public subsidies received by Veolia
Transport since 2007 covered their ordinary operating expenses as airport
operators, thereby giving them an undue economic advantage over competitors.
whether agreements (such as
marketing support contracts and discounts on airport charges) between the
airport operators and Ryanair would have been contracted by a market economy
investor and, if not, Ryanair would have been receiving an undue economic
advantage that its competitors do not enjoy. whether part of the aid received
by the airport operators had been passed on to Ryanair. In response to the
announcement, Ryanair maintained that its 'arrangements with all EU airports
comply with competition rules'.
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