Beauvais Airport

Where is Beauvais Airport?

Beauvais Airport (BVA) lovingly referred to by budget airlines as Paris’s ‘third airport’ is NOWHERE NEAR Paris. Not only is Beauvais not within the Parisian Metropolitan area, it’s not even in the Ile-de-France region. Beauvais or Aeroport de Beauvais-Tillé, Postal Code 60000. It is approximately 79 miles (105 km) northwest of Paris in the region of France known as Picardy. It takes 75 minutes by private coach (according to Wiki, but I’m guessing that’s 75 minutes with very smooth traffic).

The only remote association between Beauvais and Paris is the fact that they’re both located on the same side of the English Channel and that a shuttle service does exist between between Beauvais and Paris, but keep in mind, that Eurostar train service brings you right into central Paris at Gare du Nord (if you’re coming from UK).

So, my point is, before you opt for this ‘budget flight’, tally up the cost of driving to the airport in your home country, going through security, and catching the Beauvais shuttle for Paris as opposed to buying a rail ticket or ferry+rail ticket and coming right into the center of town by rail.

Beauvais shuttle link

Flight Mapping.com tells which flights service Beauvais Airport.

Flying into Beauvais might still be the best deal if you’re coming from Dublin, Stockholm, Budapest, Barcelona, or Rome where rail or rail plus ferry service would be time-consuming and perhaps more expensive.

Some of the budget airlines flying into Beauvais are:

Ryanair, Wizzair, Sterling, Blue Air and Norwegian Air Shuttle.

Beauvais has over 20 regularly scheduled daily flights not including charter flights.