Getting around MRS
Marseille Provence has run two very different terminals since 2006, when its low-cost building — then branded “MP2”, now Terminal 2 — opened as the first dedicated low-cost terminal in Europe. Almost every airline still flies from Terminal 1, rebuilt in 2024 around a wood-canopied “cœur d’aéroport” that Foster+Partners designed in homage to the original 1961 hall; only easyJet (its Bordeaux route excepted), Ryanair and Aer Lingus use Terminal 2, which has no lounge of its own. A regional train station, Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille Provence, sits a short LeBus+13 shuttle ride from the terminals — the crossing is estimated at five minutes and the shuttle runs every day of the year. The airport itself traces back to 1922, when the “Port aérien” of Marignane opened as one of France’s first true civil airfields, and it carried more than 11.1 million passengers in 2024.
