Saint-Étienne–Bouthéon Airport
international airport serving the French city of Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne–Loire-Airport or Aéroport de Saint-Étienne–Loire (IATA: EBU, ICAO: LFMH) is an international airport serving the French city of Saint-Étienne. It is located in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, 12 km north-northwest of Saint-Étienne, within the département of Loire in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région and mainly used by low-cost airlines.
History
In February 2017, the airport decided to cancel all subsidies towards low cost carriers serving the airport which led to Ryanair and Pegasus Airlines cancelling all services to Saint-Étienne by 2018. Consequently, there were no scheduled services to and from the airport for several years, apart from occasional holiday charters, mainly to Mediterranean destinations. At the time, passengers were reallocated to Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport which is located 77 km (48 mi) to the north east of Saint-Étienne–Bouthéon Airport. In 2025, ASL Airlines France commenced flights to Bejaia during the summer holidays.
“Saint-Étienne–Bouthéon Airport” enters the record as international airport serving the French city of Saint-Étienne. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Étienne, Bouthéon and Airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q645232. Authority coordinates are 45.534, 4.297. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2018 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Étienne–Bouthéon Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.