Brest Bretagne airport

ICAO LFRB48.4479°N 4.4185°W99 m / 325 ftLarge airport

Brest Bretagne airport (IATA: BES, ICAO: LFRB) is a large airport in Brest, Brittany, France. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,100 m (10,171 ft). In 2025 it handled 907 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07R/25L071° / 251° · LIT

LENGTH3,100 m10,171 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

07L/25R071° / 251°

LENGTH700 m2,297 ftWIDTH18 m59 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

985K

986K

995K

1.0M

1.1M

1.2M

459K

648K

776K

805K

935K

907K

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Routes

32 destinations · 9 countries

Year-round11

OUIOuessant AirportFrance · Finist'air48 km30 mi BODBordeaux–Mérignac AirportFrance · Finist'air492 km306 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France515 km320 mi TLSToulouse-Blagnac AirportFrance · Transavia697 km433 mi LYSLyon Saint-Exupéry AirportFrance · Air France780 km485 mi MPLMontpellier-Méditerranée AirportFrance · Volotea843 km524 mi MRSMarseille Provence AirportFrance · Volotea, Transavia929 km577 mi TLNToulon-Hyères AirportFrance · Transavia1,011 km628 mi NCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · Volotea1,042 km647 mi RAKMarrakesh Menara AirportMorocco · Transavia1,897 km1,179 mi AGAAl Massira AirportMorocco · Transavia2,059 km1,279 mi

Seasonal22

OUIOuessant AirportFrance · Finist'air48 km30 mi VNEVannes-Meucon AirportFrance · Finist'air150 km93 mi JERJersey AirportJersey · Finist'air183 km114 mi LGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet427 km265 mi DUBDublin AirportIreland · Aer Lingus569 km354 mi BIQBiarritz Pays Basque airportFrance · Air France597 km371 mi OPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · Transavia868 km539 mi SXBStrasbourg AirportFrance · Volotea887 km551 mi BCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Volotea945 km587 mi PMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Volotea1,142 km710 mi MAHMenorca AirportSpain · Volotea1,176 km731 mi AJAAjaccio Napoléon Bonaparte airportFrance · Volotea1,262 km784 mi BIABastia-Poretta International airportFrance · Volotea1,264 km785 mi FAOFaro - Gago Coutinho International AirportPortugal · Volotea1,303 km810 mi AGPMálaga-Costa del Sol AirportSpain · Volotea1,309 km813 mi FSCFigari Sud-Corse AirportFrance · Volotea1,311 km815 mi OLBOlbia Costa Smeralda AirportItaly · Volotea1,382 km859 mi PMOFalcone–Borsellino AirportItaly · Volotea1,812 km1,126 mi ACECésar Manrique-Lanzarote AirportSpain · Volotea2,306 km1,433 mi TFSTenerife Sur AirportSpain · Volotea2,498 km1,552 mi ATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Volotea2,559 km1,590 mi HERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Volotea2,824 km1,755 mi

Most destinationsVolotea 18Transavia 6Finist'air 4Air France 3easyJet 1Aer Lingus 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BES. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Brest Bretagne Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers907K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#862of 3,974 · #206 Europe · #18 FR Longest runway3,100 m10,171 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=930of 29,823 · =126 Europe · =12 FR Elevation99 m325 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,679of 43,341 · =3,587 Europe · =874 FR Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =134 Europe · =25 FR

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels

APPIROISE APP135.825

APPLANDI APP122.400

ATISATIS129.350

TWRTWR120.100