It is Edgar Grospiron, the Olympic champion and henceforth Chief Executive Officer for Annecy 2018 who says it: it is a real asset for our application to have the proposed sites so close (…) An international French airport interconnected to both a motorway network and a TGV railway station (two hours from Paris) which serves our whole territory as well as the bordering countries such as Italy, Germany and Spain . The stage is set.

With its one hundred and twenty direct destinations and its close proximity to winter sports resorts without having to cross the city, Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport is closer to the mountains than any other international airport.

Low-cost companies such as EasyJet know it well, they open lines from and to cities such as Nantes, Edinburgh, Brussels, which represent 18 % of the traffic already.

As for KLM Air France, they have always had steady traffic through Lyon while elsewhere, the crisis reduced traffic for the national company, as it did for other companies.

The Canadians for example, arrive in large numbers in Lyon to take advantage of a more perfect snow than their own. Softer, with temperatures a bit higher. The connoisseurs will appreciate …

Furthermore, Saint Ex , as one says in Lyon, benefits from one of the best airport restaurants in France with the installation of a Nicolas Le Bec satellite restaurant, two stars in the Michelin guide book.

To be noted also the Helpers , employees of all kinds among the one thousand within the airport, have committed themselves to kindly inform any questionning passenger and this totally explains why Saint-Exupéry received twice, in 2008 and 2010, the Best Airport Award prize, awarded by the European airports ACI association.