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When booking long distance or from another country, you may do best
with
Air France
and its associates because Corsica's airline is
CCM Airlines
, in which Air France is a shareholder. This will mean you can
get advantageous prices for the whole journey. You can book a CCM flight through the Air France website.
Another useful site, if you have a complicated journey, is Easyvols. This French site will give you a number of different options for getting where you want to go from the French mainland and beyond.
If you are booking travel other than package holidays, remember that in Corsica, road transport is measured in time not distance. So if you want to stay in the north, for instance, a flight or ferry to the south could easily add four hours to your journey time.
Corsica Isula has arranged a special offer for car hire in Corsica. The way it works is that the best deals in each car category from different car hire majors is made available to you. this saves you messing around trying to find the best deals. So, click here for Corsica Isula Car Hire.
Airports in Corsica
There are four international airports in Corsica: Ajaccio (West); Bastia (Northeast); Calvi (Northwest); and Figari (South). You may wish to choose an arrival airport as close as possible to your eventual destination - travelling by car here takes longer than you'd think due to the mountainous terrain.
Travel from France
Air France 
and its partner CCM Airlines run services to Corsica from many locations in mainland France, including
Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Nice, Marseilles, Lyon, Lille, Mulhouse, Nantes, Quimper, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Montpellier and of course Paris (Orly). You can also book flights through Easyvols.
Charter flights: summer
flights are run by Regional Airlines (Air France subsidiary)
from Clermont-Ferrand to Ajaccio. French charter flight operators include Nouvelles
Frontičres and Corsair . Nouvelles
Frontičres do specials on scheduled services, but in the
main they only work from Corsica. CCM Airlines plan charters from Caen to Ajaccio.
chģ vą pianu vą sanu, chģ vą sanu vą luntanu - who goes gently goes safely, who goes safely goes far
Travel from Britain
Direct low cost flights from UK to Corsica - Easyjet and Excel Airways both offer a Sunday service London Gatwick to
Bastia from April till October. You can book on line via the Easyjet
site. There are also flights from Gatwick to Ajaccio (also Sundays). If you decide to do this, you can book a good deal on car
hire through Corsica Isula Car Hire, by clicking here.
You can also travel to Corsica direct from a number of regional airports in Britain with ThomsonFly.
Cheap flights via Nice, Marseille & Toulon: Marseille and Nice are the main flight & ferry gateways to Corsica and there are also ferries from Toulon. Montpellier will hopefully become a staging point for travellers using Ryanair's service from Stansted, when the new airline Littoral Airlines, based there, arises from the ashes of Air Littoral with services from Montpellier to Corsica.
London Gatwick to Bastia by Easyjet
London Gatwick to Bastia with Excel Airways
London Gatwick to Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi & Figari by ThomsonFly .
Birmingham to Bastia by ThomsonFly .
Bristol to by ThomsonFly .
Edinburgh to by ThomsonFly .
Manchester to Calvi & Figari by ThomsonFly .
Belfast to
Nice by Easyjet
.
Birmingham to Pisa (Italy) by My
Travel Lite .
Bristol to
Nice and Marseilles by Easyjet
.
East Midlands to Nice & Pisa (Italy)
by BMI Baby .
Edinburgh to Nice by Globespan .
Glasgow to Nice by Globespan .
Leeds/Bradford to Nice by Jet 2 .
Liverpool to Nice by Easyjet
.
London Gatwick to Nice & Marseilles
by Easyjet
.
London Gatwick to Olbia (Sardinia) by Meridiana .
London Stansted to Nice by Easyjet
.
London Stansted to Nice by Ryanair .
Luton to Nice by Easyjet
.
Newcastle to Nice by Easyjet
.
Southampton to Nice by
flybe
Exeter to Nice by flybe
Birmingham to Nice and Marseilles by BMI Baby .
Heathrow to Nice by BMI Baby .
Durham (Tees Valley) to Nice by Globespan
Bournemouth to Pisa by Ryanair .
Doncaster to Pisa by Ryanair .
Dublin to Pisa by Ryanair .
East Midlands to Pisa by Ryanair .
Liverpool to Pisa by Ryanair .
Glasgow to Pisa by Ryanair .
London Stansted to Pisa by Ryanair .
Dublin to Marseilles by Ryanair .
Glasgow to Marseilles by Ryanair .
London Stansted to Marseilles by Ryanair .
There is a great flights matrix on our partner site http://www.corsicaholiday.com which will let you choose a flight from several different locations in Britain and the four airport destinations in Corsica.
Obviously
if you do the low-cost airlines or any others to Nice or Marseille, and if you are not using the ferry, you
will need the onward legs to Corsica with Air France. The way
into finding out from wherever you wish to travel is best done
'backwards' - i.e. go to Nice
or Marseille
airports, for example, and see incoming flights and when you've located
possible departure points then go to the sites of the airlines
concerned. This method revealed that Excel
Airways do charters from Gatwick to Bastia
(Sundays) and also Olbia in Sardinia - if you'd like to combine a visit to Sardinia
with Corsica - or just coming to Corsica, as Olbia Airport is about
60kms from the ferry at Santa Teresa di Gallura for Bonifacio. Excel
fly to Bastia from May to August.
Travel from other European countries.
Cheap flights via other Continental airports: As with cheap flights from the UK, most continental flights go to Marseille or Nice in France or such airports as Pisa in Italy (for onward travel via ferry) or to Sardinia (onward by ferry also). You can book car hire at good rates by clicking here. The way into finding out from wherever you wish to travel is best done 'backwards' - ie go to Nice or Marseille airports, for example and see incoming flights and when you've located possible departure points then go to the sites of the airlines concerned.
Bergen
to Nice by Norwegian
Air .
Berlin
Schoenfeld to Nice by Easyjet
.
Berlin
Schoenfeld to Pisa by Easyjet
.
Berlin Tegel
to Nice by Deutche BA .
Billund to
Nice by Sterling
Airways .
Brussels
to Nice by Virgin
Express .
Cologne to
Olbia & Pisa by Hapag-Lloyd .
Copenhagen
to Nice by Sterling
Airways .
Dortmund
to Nice by Easyjet
.
Düsseldorf
to Nice by Deutche BA .
Frankfurt to
Pisa by Ryanair .
Geneva
to Nice by Easyjet
Geneva
to Olbia (Sardinia) by Easyjet
Gothenberg
to Nice by Malmö
Aviation .
Gothenberg
to Nice by Sterling
Airways .
Gothenberg
to Florence by Sterling
Airways .
Hamburg to
Nice by Deutche BA .
Hannover to
Olbia by Hapag-Lloyd .
Hannover to
Pisa by Hapag-Lloyd .
Luxemberg to
Nice by Luxair .
Munich to
Nice by Deutche BA .
Oslo to Nice &
Pisa by Norwegian
Air
Oslo to Nice, Montpellier & Florence
by Sterling
Airways .
Paris
Charles de Gaulle to Nice by Easyjet
.
Paris Orly
to Nice & Pisa by Easyjet
.
Stavanger
to Nice by Norwegian
Air .
Stockholm to
Nice by SAS
Snowflake .
Stockholm to
Nice by Sterling
Airways .
Stuttgart to
Nice by Deutche BA .
Stuttgart to
Olbia & Pisa by Hapag-Lloyd .
Zurich to
Olbia & Cagliari by Helvetic Air .
Charter flights: Tour/charter
operators fly from Austria, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Switzerland
fly to Corsica in the summer. Take a look at the web. CCM Airlines plan charters between Geneva and Ajaccio.
A new airline route between Elba & Corsica: Elbafly has opened a service between Marina di Campo and Bastia, flying on Thursdays. Extraordinarily, this is the only flight between Italy and Corsica. It is experimental for the moment and between July and September.
Travel from USA and Canada
If you are travelling from North America, consider taking a low cost transatlantic flight to Paris ( with Air France) or London (with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic) and getting a connecting flight to Corsica from there using Air France. There is a US and Canada flights page on our partner site Corsicaholiday.