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Avignon flights summary:

Cheap flights to Avignon are available with both Jet2 and Flybe, but the airport's relatively short runway length keeps away airlines which use bigger aircraft such as Ryanair and Easyjet.

It is almost as easy to reach Avignon by finding cheap flights to Marseille instead, and then taking local transport from there. There has been a huge expansion in the availability of cheap flights to Marseille following the opening up of a new budget terminal there, which has attracted airlines like BmiBaby, as well as Ryanair and Easyjet. Alternatively, Ryanair also offer a good selection of cheap flights to nearby Nimes.

Meanwhile, Avignon's stunning TGV station, which deserves to be a destination in its own right, is also easily reachable by train from London, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Lyon Saint Exupery airport. Allow around 6 hours 40 minutes (with a change in Lille) for the train journey from London to Avignon, 3 hours 15 minutes from Paris Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) to Avignon and just under an hour from Lyon Saint Exupery to Avignon.

Options for connecting flights to Avignon are extremely limited, but it is possible to travel with Air France via Paris. However, Air France's Avignon flights depart from Paris Orly, meaning that the only feeder flights currently available are from London City. There is little point in trekking all the way across Paris to get between Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports - it is far easier to either find direct flights to Marseille instead.

Avignon in a nutshell:

Avignon is a beautiful walled city in the heart of Provence famed for it's annual arts festival, the Festival d'Avignon, which held during the last three weeks of July.

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