Airports
French Customs Closures Hit Bizav Traffic on Côte d'Azur
French authorities quietly removed customs and immigration service from 13 airports without consultation.

French airports industry group UAF is pressing authorities to reconsider a decision to close customs and immigration facilities at 13 airports, among them the popular French riviera gateways La Mole-Saint Tropez and Le Castellet. The closure means that the airports have not been able to accept flights from outside the Schengen area of the European Union, in which passport controls are not required. This has blocked business aviation traffic from places such as Russia, the Middle East and the UK.


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