"BallonVille Partners" is located closest to the balloons takeoff area. It's a 300 meters long tent village. It includes a VIP reception, a bar, a “business class” lounge and thirty business lodges. It allows the partners of the manifestation (institutions, collectivities and firms to pamper their guests through conferences, lunches or diners and even "first flights".

Economically, LMAB is, every two years, one of the greatest events in Lorraine. It generates around 25 million euros receipt for the region.

One must have a special badge to access BallonVille Partners.

"BallonVille Pilots" includes a camping zone ("Pilot’s square"), dedicated parkings and a gas station. Its center, located in the "Hangar Montgolfière", includes a workshop, a space for breakfast, a catering zone and the briefing hall. Its access is strictly limited.

The manifestation is free (how to get there).

At takeoff, (6.30AM and 6.30PM), tens of thousands of people are present. But LMAB isn’t just about takeoffs; animations for the young and adult are proposed on the grand boulevard, from 11AM to 9PM on Wednesday (kids day), from 2PM to 9PM on weekend, and from 4PM to 9PM during the week.

In the program : first flights (ultralight aviation, helicopter, plane and balloon), visit of the Pilâtre de Rozier museum, kids space, exhibitors village, sport village, air workshop, astronomy evening, night inflation (Wednesday at 10PM) and of course the pilot’s parade, livened up from the animation podium, before each afternoon flight, at 6.15PM. “Good Morning Chambley”, the radio of the event accompanies the everyday life of the site.

A shuttle bus allows to access the site, from Pagny-sur-Moselle train station. A large car park is also freely open to the public.

Each edition, near 400 journalists from around the world follow the "Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons" and produce approximately 5.000 articles, 50 hours of TV (including the France 3 Lorraine coverage) and radio reportage and more than 3.000.000 photographies.

A real media success which owes as much to the beauty of the images as to the personality of the members of the organization, pilots and volunteers.

Not forgetting the "friends of LMAB", who are present each edition. Among them, the swiss aeronaut Bertrand Piccard (pilot of the "Breitling Orbiter 3" and "Solar Impulse"), the French spationaut Jean-François Clervoy or the aeronautic specialist Gérard Feldzer.

200 volunteers are present on the site several days before and after the event to install all the infrastructures, security fences in particular.

They have dedicated housing, cafeteria and car park.

Located on Chambley Planet'Air, organizers have a logistics base including offices and hangars, a multimedia studio, workshops and vehicles, even bicycles (site stretches on more than 250 hectares) !

Safety and security operators (policemen and first-aiders) are also based on the site and have security headquarters to work through the duration of the event.