Guide to Toulouse Blagnac Airport

Guide originally by Danny Hill, with spots 3 and 4 added by Alister Read.

Toulouse Blagnac is quite a small regional airport in the south of France which offers a number of french regional flights with the odd international scheduled and charter flight. The airports main claim to fame though is of course that of being home to Airbus and therefore the only place to regularly see the A380 for at least the next year or so. There are also regular test flights by the many aircraft being built on the site. Airbus currently build all A320's and all A330 / A340 family aircraft at Toulouse together with the A380. It comes as no surprise that these are the main interest for most people on a trip to Toulouse.
Lets not forget that the airport is also the home of regional aircraft giant ATR, so some interesting turboprop aircraft can crop up from time to time, although these seem to be painted at the very last minute unlike the airbus examples which are painted at least a few weeks before delivery.

The airport has two close parrallel runways 14L / 34R and 14R / 34L. All Airbus factory aircraft use 14R / 34L as this is the closest to the factory area and the one the A380 made its first flight from. Scheduled flights use both runways, although they seem to mainly depart on 14L / 34R which is closest to the terminal area.

I was pleasantly surprised at the good photos to be had at Toulouse as I was expecting a rather difficult time getting photos before our visit, though there are a few nice spots. All spots though are at the North end of the airfield.