Naples airport

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Naples airport
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Characteristics
ICAO code LIRN
IATA code NAP
Coordinates

40 ° 53 '10 "  N , 14 ° 17' 27"  E Coordinates: 40 ° 53 '10 "  N , 14 ° 17' 27"  E
Height above MSL 90 m (295  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 7 km northeast of Naples
Street A56
Basic data
opening 1910 military
1950 civil
operator Gesac SpA
Terminals 2
Passengers 10,860,068 (2019)
Air freight 11,750 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		82,577 (2019)
Employees 396, to 566 in summer
Start-and runway
06/24 2628 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Naples Airport ( Italian Aeroporto di Napoli-Capodichino ; IATA : NAP , ICAO code : LIRN ) is an Italian airport in Naples . It is one of the most important airports in southern Italy .

Location and transport links

The airport is located in the urban area of ​​Naples, seven kilometers northeast of the city center. It is connected to the A56 motorway , via which all parts of the city are easily accessible, and the A1 motorway to Rome . There are several bus connections to the city center and some surrounding cities such as Caserta , Avellino , Benevento , Sorrento and Salerno . The ANM-Alibus commutes between Piazza Municipio in Naples and the airport. The 3S city ​​bus runs from the station forecourt of Napoli Centrale . A connection to the subway is under construction.

Airport facilities

The airport has a runway that is around 2,600 meters long and faces northeast (06/24). A relatively small area to the southwest of the airport site is available for commercial and general aviation. In addition to the modernized passenger terminal, there are facilities for an aircraft maintenance company to the east, followed by a military section used by the United States Navy . To the northwest of the runway there are facilities for the aviation industry in a former military area .

history

Military airfield

The airport was built in 1910 on what was then the Marsfeld of Capodichino as a military airfield and was mainly used for training purposes until 1939. During the Second World War , it was the location of various Italian, German and Allied squadrons and units . After the reconstruction, the Italian Air Force stationed a fighter squadron in Capodichino from 1948 to 1956 and then a squadron of maritime patrols until 1973 . She still uses the airport as a maintenance and logistics base today.

Since 1951, the US Navy and NATO have been major users of Naples Airport. In 1951 the NATO command Allied Forces Southern Europe (now JFC Naples ) was set up in Naples , in 1967 the 6th US fleet came from Villefranche-sur-Mer to Gaeta and Naples , and in 2005 the US command United States Naval Forces Europe was relocated from London to Naples Airport.

Civil airport

In the terminal

In 1950 the airport was opened to civil and commercial air traffic. In the relatively small area for civil aviation, a terminal building for commercial flights was built in the early 1950s . From 1959 to 1971 the airline Elivie was based at the airport . With its helicopters it offered flights to Capri , Ischia and the Amalfi Coast in particular . From 1963 to 1994 Capodichino was the home airport of the domestic airline and Alitalia subsidiary Aero Trasporti Italiani (ATI).

In 1980 the airport company GESAC took over the civil part of the airport. The shareholders at the time were the city and province of Naples and Alitalia. In 1997 GESAC was the first Italian airport company to be privatized. 70 percent went to the British BAA Limited , which played a major role in improving the airport's infrastructure and services. In 2003 GESAC was granted a forty-year license to operate the airport. In October 2010, the Italian investment fund F2I acquired the majority of GESAC. As of 2019, you can fly to 106 destinations from Naples, including 14 national, 90 international and two intercontinental destinations. The destinations are served by 43 airlines including airlines such as Alitalia , Ryanair , Eurowings , Flydubai , Aeroflot , Turkish Airlines , S7 Airlines , Air Malta , Volotea , Air France , Easy Jet , British Airways and Joon . The ENAC limited the maximum number of flight movements to 84,500.

Factory airfield

In 1968 the Pomigliano d'Arco military and works airfield near Naples was closed. Aerfer , the aircraft manufacturer operating there, merged with Fiat Aviazione and Salmoiraghi in 1969 to form the new aerospace group Aeritalia , from which Alenia Aeronautica emerged in 1990 (today Leonardo ). Aeritalia / Alenia left the production of aircraft components in Pomigliano, but used Capodichino as the new factory airport. The maintenance company Atitech , based on the southern part of the airport, also took over the facilities on the northern part in 2015.

future

In the region of Campania , which has almost six million inhabitants , Naples-Capodichino is still the only commercial airport . For urban planning reasons, further expansion is hardly possible. The western and northern parts of the city are in the south-western approach lane , shortly before the threshold 06 is the well-known Museo di Capodimonte on a hill . The theoretically possible redesign and commercial use of the northern and eastern parts of the airport would significantly increase the noise and environmental pollution in the urban area due to the increase in air traffic. Therefore, after extending the runway there, Salerno Airport , located about 50 km south-east, near the Amalfi Coast, is to take over part of the commercial air traffic in Campania and thus relieve Naples-Capodichino. Plans to expand the Grazzanise military airfield , northwest of Naples, into the new commercial airport in Naples, were abandoned in 2013.

Traffic figures

Source: Assaeroporti
Source: Assaeroporti
Naples Airport - traffic figures 2000–2019
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail )		 Flight movements
2019 10,860,068 11,750 82,577
2018 9,932,029 11,691 79,722
2017 8,577,507 11,069 75.013
2016 6,775,988 10,724 63,935
2015 6,163,188 10,728 60,261
2014 5,960,035 9,950 58,681
2013 5,444,422 7,515 55,940
2012 5,801,836 5,282 61.113
2011 5,768,873 4,948 62,878
2010 5,584,114 5,326 63,564
2009 5,322,161 5,655 64.032
2008 5,642,267 5,800 68,548
2007 5,775,838 7,863 72,330
2006 5,095,969 8,353 61,708
2005 4,588,695 7,608 58.002
2004 4,632,388 7,617 59,962
2003 4,587,163 8,174 65,016
2002 4,132,874 9,759 63,690
2001 4,003,001 9,470 60,916
2000 4,136,508 7,440 62,494

Incidents

Web links

Commons : Naples Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Marco Minari: Airport expansion with a system . In: Dietmar Plath (Ed.): AERO INTERNATIONAL . No. 04/2020 . YEAR TOP SPECIAL VERLAG, Hamburg March 2020, p. 34 .
  2. ↑ How to reach Naples , on amoitaly.com, accessed April 2, 2020
  3. ↑ Details on enav.it
  4. ^ Comando Aeroporto Capodichino
  5. ↑ Naval Support Activity Naples on militarybases.com ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ F2I, October 1, 2010
  7. ↑ Alenia di Capodichino, c'è l'accordo con i sindacati: passa all'Atitech. Via libera al polo delle manutenzioni e delle revisioni (May 27, 2015), on ilmattino.it
  8. ↑ Piano aeroporti: Capodichino strategico, Salerno di interest nazionale. Out Grazzanise ( Memento of August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (January 20, 2014), on aerospaziocampania.technapoli.it/
  9. ↑ a b c Statistiche. In: assaeroporti.com. Assaeroporti , accessed January 24, 2019 (Italian).
  10. ↑ Accident report Viscount 785 I-LAKE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 9, 2018.