Turin Airport

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Città di Torino - Sandro Pertini
Aeroporto di Torino-vista aerea.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LIMF
IATA code TRN
Coordinates

45 ° 12 '3 "  N , 7 ° 38' 59"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 12 '3 "  N , 7 ° 38' 59"  E

Height above MSL 301 m (988  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 16 km north of Turin
Street SP2 (motorway-like feeder to the bypass motorway around Turin)
train 20 min. To Turin (Torino Dora GTT station)
Local transport 40 min. To Turin (Torino Porta Susa station)
Basic data
opening 1953
operator Sagat SpA
Terminals 1
Passengers 3,952,158 (2019)
Air freight 3,334 t (2019)
Flight
movements
43,655 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year)
more than 5 million
Start-and runway
18/36 3300 m × 60 m asphalt

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The Turin airport ( ital. Aeroporto di Torino-Caselle "Sandro Pertini" ) is an international airport in the town of Caselle Torinese , 16 kilometers north of the Piedmontese capital Turin in northern Italy .

Transport links

The airport has a train station that is part of the Servizio ferroviario metropolitano di Torino , but is not connected to the city center of Turin. With the exception of late at night, early in the morning and on weekends, trains run every half hour between the airport and Dora GTT train station outside Turin city center . The airport train takes 19 minutes for this route. From the Dora GTT train station, the Porta Susa city ​​center train station and thus the Metropolitana di Torino can only be reached by bus. A journey with a change costs 3 euros (as of April 2019), but the corresponding ticket is not available from the machine on the platform.

The city ​​center can usually be reached in around 30 minutes via a motorway-like road . The most important car rental companies are represented at the airport. Buses run to Turin and Aosta . The Sadem shuttle bus connects the airport with the city center ( Porta Susa and Porta Nuova train stations ) from around 6 a.m. to midnight every 15 to 30 minutes. The journey takes 40 to 50 minutes.

history

The Turin-Caselle airport, which opened on July 30, 1953, was built on a former military airfield. Significant modernization work was carried out on the occasion of the 1990 World Cup and the 2006 Winter Olympics .

Airport facilities

The airport has a runway (18/36) that is 3300 meters long and 60 meters wide. To the east of the runway are the production facilities of the Leonardo company , to the west the passenger terminal. The airport is named after the former Italian President Alessandro Pertini .

Traffic figures

Source: Assaeroporti
Source: Assaeroporti
Turin Airport - traffic figures 2000–2019
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail )
Flight movements
2019 3,952,158 3,334 43,655
2018 4,084,923 4,731 45,511
2017 4,176,556 5,971 47,855
2016 3,950,908 6,346 46,496
2015 3,666,424 6,047 44,261
2014 3,431,986 7,037 42,463
2013 3,160,287 9,690 43,655
2012 3,521,847 10,543 51,773
2011 3,710,485 8,137 54,541
2010 3,560,169 8,351 54,840
2009 3,227,258 6,942 56,419
2008 3,420,833 11,798 58,148
2007 3,509,253 13,667 62,136
2006 3,260,974 12,997 60,838
2005 3,148,807 13,794 56,890
2004 3,141,888 15,994 57,847
2003 2,820,448 18,344 54,710
2002 2,787,091 16,349 59,931
2001 2,820,762 17,220 64,855
2000 2,814,850 20,623 61,971

Incidents

  • On 1 January 1974 fell Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship of Itavia (Mark I-TIDE ) during the approach to deep, brushed 3.7 kilometers south of the airport trees and a building and crashed in the supine position. Of the 42 people on board, 38 were killed.
  • On November 8, 1996, an Antonov An-124-100 (RA-82069) , which belonged to the Aeroflot fleet and was operated by Ajax , had an accident on a charter cargo flight from the Chkalovsky military airfield to Turin airport. The flight was an empty flight, Ferrari sports cars were to be loaded in Turin for the Sultan of Brunei . Shortly before touching down on the runway at the destination airport, the pilots made a missed approach . They then failed to pull up the machine, which was flying at a low altitude. The Antonov brushed against trees and roofs of houses in the village of San Francesco al Campo behind the airport before it finally collided with a residential building. Two of the 23 occupants of the plane were killed in the accident, and two house residents died (see also Aeroflot flight 9981 ) .

More airfields

In addition to the Caselle commercial airport, Turin also has the Turin-Aeritalia airport , which opened in 1916 and which today only serves general aviation and the local aero club. The Turin-Mirafiori airfield, inaugurated in 1911, was mainly used as a military airfield and was closed after the Second World War. Today research facilities of the CNR are located there . In 1909 an airfield was built in the north of the city, at the royal palace of Venaria Reale , which is still used by the military today.

Occasionally, Cuneo Airport, 65 km south, is referred to as another airport in Turin.

Web links

Commons : Turin airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Statistiche. In: assaeroporti.com. Assaeroporti , accessed April 27, 2020 (Italian).
  2. [1] (English), accessed on May 6, 2016
  3. ^ Accident report F28-1000 I-TIDE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Accident report An-124 RA-82069 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 9, 2020.