# Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)

> Toulouse/Blagnac, FR · IATA: TLS · ICAO: LFBO · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `TLS` |
| ICAO | `LFBO` |
| City | Toulouse/Blagnac |
| Country | FR |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 152 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 43.62910, 1.36382 |

## Description

Chronopost, DHL Express, FedEx and UPS move most of the commercial freight through Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS/LFBO), France's fifth-ranked cargo airport with roughly 30,000 to 50,000 tonnes handled per year depending on the source. The site is unusual because a large share of its freighter movements is industrial, not commercial: Toulouse hosts Airbus final assembly lines, and Beluga transport aircraft ferry fuselage and wing sections in from other European plants. That capacity is not available to shippers, and Airbus shut down its Beluga Transport subsidiary, which had offered outsize charters to third parties, in January 2025. Everyday export and import cargo therefore travels either with the express integrators or as belly cargo on scheduled flights to Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Madrid. A customs office is located at the airport (Bureau de douane Toulouse-Blagnac, FR004440) and handles import and export formalities on site. Motorway access via the A62, A61 and A68 supports road feeder service, and many intercontinental shipments from the Occitanie region are trucked to Paris CDG or Frankfurt for uplift. Practical alternatives are Paris CDG for long-haul freighters, Lyon Saint-Exupery for the south-east, Bordeaux-Merignac towards the Atlantic and Barcelona for Iberian destinations. Aerospace parts, AOG spares and temperature-controlled goods are the typical commodities, and forwarders should budget a truck leg to a larger cargo gateway.

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