Marseille Provence Airport (French: Aéroport Marseille-Provence) (IATA: MRS, ICAO: LFML) is an international airport located 27 km (17 miles) northwest of Marseille,[2] on the territory of Marignane, both communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France.

It even briefly served as a terminal for Pan American World Airways Clipper flying boats.

[4] Other flying boat operators were Aéropostale and Air Union, the latter moving over from Antibes in 1931.

[citation needed] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes turning back to Marignane airport with a fuel leak in chapter 8 of Wind, Sand and Stars, before setting out again for Tunis, and the fateful event that informed his later description of the crash-landing in his best-known book, The Little Prince.

[82] Marseille Provence Airport serves as a focus city for Air France.