Lyon Airport

Not Verified | Queue full of children elderly people to GI through customs, no toilets. Machines for biometric passport not working despite holiday season and passengers from more than 2 flights queuing. Only 2 airport customs border police on duty! This happens frequently.

✅ Trip Verified | I was so worried about this airport because of the negative reviews. My experience was excellent. Clean, modern, one of the best airports I’ve been to. Security line took 5 minutes. I flew out on a Sunday to Munich, but the system is set up to be efficient. The bathrooms are very clean, doors automatically open, and you can now go get food and shop at the mall whenever - the gate is no longer closed to the main part.

Not Verified | What a joke. I’ve flown out of Lyon 6 times this year and the passport control lines are pathetic. Last time no agents showed up for 45 minutes so hundreds of people waiting in queue. Today just two agents and hundreds of folks waiting in queue and will most likely miss flights. Absolute idiots.

✅ Trip Verified | Once you pass the passport control, which there is no indication as you are entering a desert, they bring you to the gates where there is absolutely nothing to eat, or drink, no bar , no cafe, nothing. It is France, but feels like you are travelling from a third world country. The staff are so rude with no explanation as why I can not go back to grab a sandwich! And they don't care if you wait for 2 hours by the gate hungry with a vending machine that has drinks only.

❎ Not Verified | This airport is impossible to find a charging station for mobile phones They only have regular European electric plugs. They need to install for international traveller's that are not equipped with 220 electric adapters.

✅ Trip Verified | Lyon St-Exupery airport serves primarily the city of Lyon and the region of Rhônes-Alpes in the center east of France. This airport has a train station which connects some cities of France as well as tramway that connects the city center. This airport can be a good option for connecting flights as it offers a good choice of flights mostly to Europe. This airport had recently an expansion of terminal 1 which is nice and modern. However the wating time for security lines is very long. Also there's a passport control even for Shengen flights which I find odd for an airport. The airport staff is fine probably more friendly than the ones of Paris CDG airport. There's a good range of shops and restaurants after security. Overall besides the security lines Lyon airport is a good airport for connections but give yourself enough time for that. I recomend at least 2 hours if you are not check in and have bags to claim.

Not Verified | After a previous episode for which departure was delayed by 45 minutes because the luggage was not delivered to the plane, today flight was delayed for late arrival of the fuel truck. This airport is run like a mom-and-pop operation except that the ground staff looks overburden and lies about delays. A consistently bad experience.

Not Verified | Worst experience I had in an airport. They took away all the cheese I had bought for my family with no explanation, because in the whole airport there's nobody who ever bothered to learn English. They will continue to speak to you in French even if you repeatedly said you can't understand them. Rude staff and no management skills.

Not Verified | New airport let down by rude staff and ill thought-out procedures. 1) Despite checking into a BA flight, the check-in lady refused to speak English with me. 2) Unlike all other airports I've visited around the world, the Airport Lounge ('Mont Blanc') is after the final passport gate check. This means once you go to the lounge there is no way to return to shops, restaurants or other members of your flying party who have not yet passed this final point. When I questioned this I was met with a mixture of indifference and ridicule by the gate staff.

Not Verified | The beautiful new Lyon airport is a real let down. Understaffed, poor processes and incompetent management. We arrived two hours before our flight at a quiet time of day but it took all of this time to get through security. The queue barely moved. Staff were lost. Management swooped in with their floor length black woollen jackets and had no answers. Adjustments that were made to queues just allowed some to jump ahead of others. Real incompetence all around.