Rimini Airport

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Aeroporto di Rimini-Miramare
“Federico Fellini”
Aeroporto Rimini-Miramare.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LIPR
IATA code RMI
Coordinates

44 ° 1 '13 "  N , 12 ° 36' 42"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 1 '13 "  N , 12 ° 36' 42"  E
Height above MSL 12 m (39  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 8 km southeast of Rimini
Street SS 16
Local transport Bus (line 9)
Basic data
opening 1958 (civil part)
operator AiRiminum
Passengers 395,194 (2019)
Air freight 4.44 (2019)
Flight
movements 		4,833 (2019)
Start-and runway
13/31 2996 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Rimini airport ( ital. Aeroporto di Rimini-Miramare " Federico Fellini " ) is an Italian commercial airport on the Adriatic coast of Emilia-Romagna in Rimini . It is also the airport of the Republic of San Marino . Units of the Italian Army Aviation are stationed on the military part .

Location and connection

The airport is located around eight kilometers southeast of the center of Rimini near the coastal town of Miramare. Immediately to the southeast is the resort of Riccione . San Marino is about 20 kilometers inland. Strada Statale 16 Adriatica and the Bologna – Ancona railway line run between the airport and the Adriatic beach , which is about a kilometer away . To the west of the airport, the A14 motorway runs parallel to the coast, to the SS 16 and the aforementioned railway line .

  • Bus : Bus number 9 connects the airport and Rimini Central Station, every 30 minutes during the day. The number 11 buses stop about every 200 meters on the coastal road.
  • Car : The aforementioned state road SS 16, which is called “ Via Flaminia ” here, passes directly by the terminal . In an easterly direction, a number of streets branch off to the beach promenade , in a north-westerly direction the SS 16 is the bypass of Rimini with various junctions to the city center and to the motorway junction "Rimini-Süd", in the southeast there is a junction to the junction "Riccione".
  • Rail : The airport does not have its own rail connection. In Miramare there is a stop on the Adriatic railway line , where regional trains stop. The distance to the airport is just over a kilometer.

Airlines and Destinations

The airport is the base for TJS San Marino , a subsidiary of the Austrian aviation company Tyrolean Jet Services . Flights to Rimini were offered from various cities in Germany and Switzerland . In addition, charter air traffic is important, especially from Russia ( Ural Airlines ).

history

Rimini Airport was created in 1912 as a military airfield . After the Second World War, it was used as a central collection point for war material that was left lying around throughout Italy. The British used German prisoners of war to collect and butcher them.

The civil joint use of the airport was permitted in 1958. For this purpose, appropriate handling systems were built in the area northeast of the runway , which have been expanded and modernized several times over the years. With the above-average development of tourism on the Adriatic coast near Rimini, the airport recorded an enormous increase in traffic for the time in the 1960s. With the shift in tourist flows, commercial air traffic in Rimini declined from the end of the 1970s. The liberalization of air traffic and new tourist flows from Eastern Europe have turned the trend in recent years.

During the Cold War , a squadron of the Italian Air Force was located on the military section southwest of the runway , which was also intended for the use of atomic bombs as part of the nuclear participation . The bombs were stored in a US depot. The squadron moved to the Cervia military airfield, northwest of Rimini, in 1995 and was disbanded in 2010. A helicopter formation of the Italian Army is stationed in Rimini-Miramare today . In 2009 the Ministry of Defense handed the airport over to the civil aviation authority ENAC , but reserved the right to use it for military purposes.

On November 1, 2014, the civil part of the airport was closed because the airport operating company at the time had gone bankrupt . Up until March 31, 2015, airlines switched to other airports, especially Ancona Airport , until the new operating company AiRiminum received the necessary permits from the aviation authority ENAC.

Incidents

  • On July 31, 1960, both engines of a Convair CV-240-4 of the German Air Service (now Condor) (registration D-BELU ), which came from Frankfurt , failed one after the other on approach . During the subsequent emergency landing one kilometer before the start of runway 13, one of the 30 passengers was killed. The four crew members survived.

Airports in the region

The Emilia-Romagna region has four airports in Bologna , Forlì , Parma and Rimini. Because of the lack of profitability , many of Italy's smaller commercial airports are repeatedly criticized by the aviation authority ENAC, including those of Parma, Forlí and Rimini. The latter two airports in particular are considered critical because they are not far from each other near the Adriatic coast and one of the two would be sufficient to cover this catchment area.

See also

Web links

Commons : Rimini Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroporti. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Manuel Spadazzi: Riapre l'aeroporto 'Fellini': every 16 atterra il primo volo da Mosca. In: ilrestodelcarlino.it. Retrieved April 8, 2015 (Italian).
  3. ^ Accident report D-BELU, Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ repubblica.it, November 8, 2010