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Bastia–Poretta Airport

*Aéroport de Bastia Poretta*
*Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta*
Bastia–Poretta Airport; Aéroport de Bastia Poretta; Aeroportu di Bastia Poreta
	IATA: BIA; ICAO: LFKB;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	CCI of Bastia and Upper Corsica
Serves	Bastia
Location	Lucciana, Corsica, France
Elevation AMSL	26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	42°33′00″N 009°29′05″E / 42.55000°N 9.48472°E
Website	bastia.aeroport.fr
Map
	LFKB Location of the airport in Corsica LFKB LFKB (France)
Runways
Statistics (2022)
Passengers
Passengers	1,489,038
Passenger traffic change	24.1%
	Source: French AIP, Aeroport.fr

Bastia–Poretta Airport^[a] (IATA: BIA, ICAO: LFKB) is an airport serving Bastia on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. It is located 17 km (11 mi) south-southeast of Bastia at Lucciana,^[1] both of which are communes of the Upper Corsica department.

History

In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

USAAF combat units assigned:^{[clarification needed]}

414th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 5 February–July 1944; 5 September – 13 October 1944, Bristol Beaufighter
527th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, (Twelfth Air Force), 12 July-23 September 1944, P-47 Thunderbolt
416th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), 14–23 August 1944, P-61 Black Widow
417th Night Fighter Squadron, (Twelfth Air Force), February–April 1944; 25 April – 7 September 1944, Bristol Beaufighter^[3]
5th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
23rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, (3d Reconnaissance Group), 11 July – 24 September 1944, P-38/F-5 Lightning
111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, (XII Tactical Air Command), 21 July – 27 August 1944, P-51/F-6 Mustang
42nd Bombardment Wing was headquartered at the airfield, 21 September – 24 November 1944.
47th Bomb Group (Light) http://www.47thbombgroup.org/ 12 July - 5 September 1944, Douglas A-20, Douglas A-20 Havoc - Wikipedia and A-26 Douglas A-26 Invader - Wikipedia

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bastia – Poretta airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air Corsica	Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Charleroi, Dole, Toulon
Air France	Paris–Orly
easyJet	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin, Cologne/Bonn (resumes 12 April 2025),^[4] Düsseldorf, Nuremberg,^[5]^[6]^[7] Stuttgart
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia	Seasonal: Biarritz (begins 12 July 2025),^[8] Brest, Gothenburg, Lyon (begins 19 April 2025),^[9] Rotterdam/The Hague
Volotea	Seasonal: Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse