๐ซ๐ท Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France
Colmar-Houssen Airport (CMR/LFGA) is a significant regional aviation facility located in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace, France, serving the historic city of Colmar and the surrounding wine region. Strategically positioned between Strasbourg and Mulhouse, the airport is a primary hub for general aviation, corporate travel, and private executive charters. It is also an important base for several aviation-related clubs and flight training organizations, reflecting the strong aeronautical culture of eastern France.
The terminal building is a functional and well-maintained facility that serves as the airport's administrative and passenger services hub. Inside, visitors will find a welcoming pilot's lounge with comfortable seating, a flight planning area, and clean restroom facilities. While the airport does not support regular scheduled commercial airline service, the terminal is designed to handle the needs of transient aviators and their passengers with high efficiency. Amenities at CMR include high-speed Wi-Fi and a selection of local information materials to assist visitors in exploring the nearby Alsatian Wine Route and the picturesque town center of Colmar.
Operational infrastructure at Colmar-Houssen includes a significant paved runway (01/19) measuring approximately 1,610 meters in length, which is equipped with modern navigational aids for all-weather operations. The airport also offers a range of high-quality support services, including 24-hour self-service fuel (100LL and Jet A) and multiple hangars for aircraft storage and maintenance. For ground transportation, the airport is located just a few kilometers from the city center, with official taxi services, car rental agencies, and local shuttle options readily available to transport visitors to the area's many historic sites and culinary destinations.
Colmar-Houssen Airport (CMR) is not a scheduled-airline hub, so any connection here is really a transfer from private, business, training, or special-purpose flying into the Alsace surface network. Public descriptions of the field consistently place it in the general-aviation and charter category rather than among France's regular commercial passenger airports. That means travelers should not plan around interline baggage, airline help desks, or a same-terminal handoff to another scheduled flight. If your aircraft lands at CMR, your onward connection is almost certainly by car, taxi, rail, or coach.
The airport's location is the useful part. Colmar itself is close, and the city sits on a strong rail and road corridor between Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Basel, and the wine villages of Alsace. For a commercial onward journey, the practical choice is usually to transfer into central Colmar and continue by SNCF rail, or to drive south toward EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg or north toward Strasbourg Airport depending on the booked flight. Because CMR is not handling regular airline banks, you should think of it as a convenient access point, not as a protected transfer environment.
The best strategy is to pre-book the ground leg and make the commercial connection from there. If you are arriving by private aircraft for a same-day airline departure elsewhere, leave margin for customs needs, road traffic, and separate-ticket risk. CMR can be a very efficient place to land, but efficiency at the airfield does not remove the fact that your real connection still happens outside the airport boundary.
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Minimum domestic connection:
45 minutes
International connections:
90 minutes
Interline transfers:
120 minutes
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Last updated: April 2026 | Data Source: IATA and other airline sites and resources