Cagliari airport

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Aeroporto di Cagliari-Elmas
Aeroporto di Cagliari - piazzale.jpeg
Characteristics
ICAO code LIEE
IATA code CAG
Coordinates

39 ° 15 '5 "  N , 9 ° 3' 15"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 15 '5 "  N , 9 ° 3' 15"  E
Height above MSL 4 m (13  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 6 km northwest of Cagliari
Street SS130 SS131 SS391
train Airport stop
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening 1937
operator SOGAER (So.G.Aer. SpA-Societá Gestione Aeroporto)
surface 296 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 4,747,806 (2019)
Air freight 4,253 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		39,691 (2019)
Start-and runway
14/32 2805 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Cagliari airport ( Italian Aeroporto di Cagliari-Elmas "Mario Mameli" ; IATA code : CAG , ICAO code : LIEE ) is located a few kilometers west of Cagliari , the capital of the Italian region of Sardinia , in the municipality of Elmas . It is the busiest of the island's three international airports.

Location and transport links

The airport is located six kilometers northwest of the city center of Cagliari.

In June 2013, a stop for the airport was opened on the Cagliari – Golfo Aranci Marittima railway line north of the terminal . As a rule, all trains running on the above-mentioned railway line stop there, as well as those of the Cagliari S-Bahn , which results in around 20-minute intervals during the day. The journey time to Cagliari Central Station, which is located directly at the port , is around five minutes. Oristano and Iglesias can be reached in 50 to 80 minutes. The airport terminal is connected to the train stop by a moving walkway .

A short feeder road leads from the airport terminal to the motorway-like roads SS 130 and 131 , which connect Cagliari with the south-west and north of Sardinia, as well as the north bypass SS 554 and thus the SS 125 , via which the east of the island can be reached. The most famous car rental companies are represented at the airport .

history

The first airfield of Cagliari was northeast of the city in Monserrato . An air mail service was set up here in 1919 , and later a civil flight school . The airfield, which has since been closed, was primarily used for military purposes.

Between Cagliari in the east and the salt flats of the Gulf of Cagliari in the southwest lies the lagoon of Santa Gilla, on the banks of which is now the airport of Cagliari-Elmas. The lagoon became a military base for flying boats in the early 1920s . In 1927 the aviation pioneer Francesco De Pinedo stopped here on his long-haul flight to South America, and then Italo Balbo on his formation flights .

Liner services between the mainland and Sardinia began on the Ostia - Olbia -Cagliari route on April 21, 1928. They were carried out by the Società Aerea Mediterranea (SAM), which mainly used flying boats of the Savoia-Marchetti S.55 type . The flight from Rome to Cagliari cost 300 lire at the time, little more than the first class boat connection. Initially only two weekly flights were planned, until the end of 1928 there were daily connections. Shortly afterwards, the SAM began to fly from Rome directly to Cagliari and on to Tunis . From 1934 to 1937, an airfield for conventional land planes was built next to the landing stage for flying boats. In addition to various military facilities, a terminal building for the Ala Littoria was built , which was inaugurated on May 3, 1937. Until 1940, the line connection between Cagliari and Rome recorded around 10,000 passengers annually. Such a passenger volume was otherwise only achieved between Rome and Milan in Italy . From 1940 Cagliari-Elmas was only used for military purposes, including by units of the German Air Force . In April 1943 it was completely destroyed by Allied bombers.

Between 1944 and 1946, military transport aircraft took over the connections between Cagliari and the mainland, with civilians being allowed to travel with them if there was justified need. In the following year 1947, the civil scheduled flights were resumed, for which a temporary handling facility was built in Cagliari-Elmas next to a hangar. In 1949 the number of air travelers in Elmas was over 30,000. The airline Airone, founded by the Aero Club Cagliari in Monserrato, offered flights to Rome, Milan, Turin , Naples and Palermo with its Fiat G.12 , but was then unable to compete with the state company Linee Aeree Italiane and was finally replaced by Avio at the end of 1949 Linee Italiane taken over. In the following years, mainly Alitalia and its daughters ATI and Aermediterranea were active in Elmas , as did the private companies Alisarda , Itavia and Air Sardinia. The charter and scheduled services from abroad is busy only in the 1990s.

The terminal building, which was inaugurated in 1958 and which stood immediately southeast of today's, was replaced in 1980 by a terminal with a capacity of 800,000 passengers per year. Soon it had to be expanded due to the increasing air traffic and then practically rebuilt on the spot. In 2003, President Ciampi inaugurated the new terminal with a pier and five passenger boarding bridges . In 2008 the runway was completely renovated and the northern taxiway was therefore used as a runway.

Namesake

The namesake, born in Cagliari in 1910, was a bomber pilot during the illegal Italian invasion of Abyssinia under the command of Galeazzo Ciano , Mussolini's son-in-law. He was killed by fire from the ground in the second Tembi battle (February 27-29, 1936) on board a Caproni Ca.101 aircraft . In 1993 his body was reburied by Asmara in the Cimitero di San Michele military cemetery in Cagliari.

Airlines and Destinations

Cagliari-Elmas has been a base for the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair since March 2009 , which connects Cagliari with a number of cities on the Italian mainland and in the rest of Europe. Other important local low-cost airlines are easyJet , Volotea and Vueling Airlines . The Italian airlines Meridiana and Alitalia fly to Cagliari all year round, several other European airlines, including Lufthansa , Eurowings , Austrian Airlines and Edelweiss Air only seasonally.

Traffic figures

Source: Assaeroporti
Source: Assaeroporti
Cagliari Airport - traffic figures 2000–2019
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail )		 Flight movements
2019 4,747,806 4,253 39,691
2018 4,370,014 3,588 35,459
2017 4,157,612 2,862 34,600
2016 3,695,045 2,988 31,515
2015 3,719,289 3,253 31,167
2014 3,639,631 2,999 34,099
2013 3,587,907 3,361 34,179
2012 3,592,020 3,052 36,377
2011 3,698,982 3.115 38,976
2010 3,443,227 3,612 39,147
2009 3,333,421 3,973 40,829
2008 2,929,870 4,891 37,252
2007 2,671,306 5,000 34,569
2006 2,492,710 4,799 31,232
2005 2,355,796 4,853 28,774
2004 2,282,559 4.113 26,852
2003 2,307,035 4,556 27,154
2002 2,178,860 4,545 27,389
2001 1,936,237 5,862 29,676
2000 2,067,116 5,499 30,579

photos

  • Passenger terminal

  • Departure area outside

  • Departure area inside

  • Aerial photo 1942

Military part

On the south-west side is the military part of the airport, where Breguet Atlantic long-range reconnaissance aircraft were last stationed. In December 2015, the military left this area largely to the civilian operator of the airport. Because of the relatively large hangar , efforts will be made to set up an aircraft maintenance company there .

The small military part on the south-east side, on which the smaller helicopter units of the Carabinieri and Army aviators are located, is to give way to the expansion of the passenger terminal and its apron as well as facilities and storage areas for air freight traffic . The Carabinieri helicopter unit has therefore already moved to the military section in the southwest, where it was able to put a new hangar with a separate apron into service. An expansion of the airport to the north is planned for general aviation .

Other airports in Sardinia

In addition to the commercial airports of Cagliari, Olbia and Alghero, there are also civil airports at Oristano ( Fenosu ) and Tortolì ( Tortolì-Arbatax ) in Sardinia . These were also served seasonally by regional airlines. A few kilometers northwest of the Cagliari-Elmas airport is the Decimomannu military airfield .

Web links

Commons : Cagliari Elmas airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Statistiche. In: assaeroporti.com. Assaeroporti , accessed April 18, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ About the Cagliari-Monserrato airport
  3. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Italy, Sicily and Sardinia , pp 72-74 , accessed on 16 October 2015
  4. ↑ List of airlines and flight connections on the website of the airport operator Sogaer
  5. ↑ L'Aeronautica militare saluta Elmas: la cerimonia in aeroporto. L'Unione Sarda , December 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ Master plan of the airport operator Sogear on the website of the municipality of Elmas.