The St. Symphorien AB Airport is one of the prime gateways to Tours located 5 kilometers to the north east of the city. The Airport is bears the code of LFOT by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) while the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has coded St. Symphorien Airport as TUF. It is a civil airport and hence is open to common man.
The paved runway of St. Symphorien AB Airport measures 7800 feet in length. The airport also has customs service for which prior notice is necessary. It also has an officially published instrument approach procedure which is popularly called Instrument Flight Rules (IFR).
Every week, 3 aircrafts of medium size depart from St. Symphorien AB Airport, France be virtue of which, as many as 945 passengers travel out of Tours. Of these, the smallest is a 737 commercial aircraft that has seating allotments for 189 passengers. A non-stop flight is also said to depart from Tours.
The main airline that operates at St. Symphorien AB Airport is the low-cost Ryanair that connects Tours with other important cities of France and Europe like London.
The St. Symphorien AB Airport in France, Europe also offers the following services to the people that include:
- Toilets
- Shops
- Facilities for the Disabled
- Information Desk
- Security
- Passengers Information
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- Tourism Information
- Reserved Car Park
- Internet access
- Café
- Telephone Facility
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Tours, the largest city in central France, is the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department in France. The beautiful city lies between Orleans and the Atlantic coast, on the lower courses of Loire River. The place holds its importance in the pages of history owing to the Battle of Tours that occurred in 732 A.D. The Touraine region around Tours is famous for its wines. The cycling race between Paris and Tours is also famous.
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