Rome Fiumicino Airport

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Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino
“Leonardo da Vinci”
Aeroporti di Roma Logo.svg
Aeroporto Fiumicino - Torre ENAV ristrutturata 2015.jpeg
Characteristics
ICAO code LIRF
IATA code FCO
Coordinates

41 ° 48 '16 "  N , 12 ° 15' 3"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '16 "  N , 12 ° 15' 3"  E
Height above MSL 5 m (16  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 34 km west of Rome
Street A91
train Leonardo Express , S-Bahn (FL-1) ,
Le Frecce
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening 20th August 1960
operator Aeroporti di Roma
surface 1660 ha
Terminals 4th
Passengers 43,532,573 (2019)
Air freight 194,526.8 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		309,783 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		48 million
Runways
16R / 34L 3900 m × 60 m asphalt
07/25 3300 m × 45 m asphalt
16L / 34R 3900 m × 60 m asphalt
(16C / 34C)
(Taxiway D) 		3600 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport ( Italian Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino "Leonardo da Vinci" ) is in front of Rome Ciampino the largest airport in the Italian capital Rome . The airport, named after Leonardo da Vinci , is located on the Mediterranean coast in the urban area of Fiumicino , 29 km southwest of the Roman city center. With around 41 million passengers in 2017, it is the largest airport in Italy, ahead of Milan-Malpensa airport. Rome-Fiumicino is the main hub of the airline Alitalia .

Transport links

Street

The A91 motorway connects the airport with the city of Rome. Other cities in the region can also be reached quickly via the A91 and the Roman A90 motorway ring , and various coastal towns in northern Lazio and southern Tuscany can be reached via the A12 which branches off to the north at the airport .

Buses operated by the public operator Cotral run from Terminal 2 to downtown Rome, Fiumicino and Lido di Ostia . Shuttle buses run from Terminal 3 of Fiumicino Airport to Rome and various cities in central and southern Italy. There are taxi ranks in front of all terminals . The most important car rental companies are represented at the airport.

rail

The Italian railway connects the airport and Rome. From the Tiburtina , Tuscolana , Ostiense and Trastevere train stations located close to the city center , an S-Bahn-like regional train runs every 15 minutes ( line FL1 ) with stops to the airport. Travel time is 25 to 40 minutes. There is also a half-hourly, faster direct train, the so-called Leonardo Express , from Roma Termini main station , which reaches the airport in 32 minutes and only has first-class cars.

Some high-speed lines continue to the airport via Tiburtina and Termini . A better connection to the high-speed traffic depends on the planned expansion of the airport train station and the railway line to Rome.

Airport facilities

Terminals

The airport is divided into four terminals, two of which are currently in use:

designation Gates aims Airlines
Terminal 1 B1-B30 Schengen area Alitalia and SkyTeam , some European airlines
Terminal 2 C1-C7 (inactive, will be demolished) (Terminal 1 expansion planned)
Terminal 3 C8-C16
D1-D10
E1-E8
E11-E24
E31-E44
E51-E61 		Schengen area (C / D) and others (E) Alitalia, SkyTeam and all other companies
Terminal 5 E. (inactive, should be converted)
Sketch of the terminal area

Terminal 1 (in sketch: green), located in the east of the check-in area and its semicircular access road, serves Alitalia and its partners for domestic flights and connections in the Schengen area. Terminal 1 has also been used by several other companies since the end of March 2019, including Lufthansa , Eurowings and Swiss . In a westerly direction, Terminal 2 (yellow), which looked rather provisional and was relatively small and where low-cost and charter airlines were based, followed until it was demolished in 2018. Some of these airlines have moved from Rome Ciampino Airport to Fiumicino in recent years . On the apron side of Terminals 1 and 2 there is a pier with twelve passenger boarding bridges and one pier with ten passenger boarding bridges. For Terminal 1, another pier for short and medium- haul aircraft is currently being built in the eastern apron area parallel to the two piers mentioned ; Terminal 1 is being expanded to the west at the location of Terminal 2.

Terminal 3 (blue) is intended for international scheduled flights, mainly operated by classic airlines. On the apron side of this terminal there is a pier with 14 passenger boarding bridges (light blue), to the west of which there is a satellite (light red) with eleven passenger boarding bridges, which is connected to Terminal 3 by a people mover . To the southwest of Terminal 3 there are aprons and smaller facilities that would have to give way to a planned Terminal 4.

After just six months of construction, the new Terminal 5 was opened in early 2008 (dark red). For this purpose, a former cargo building in the southwestern part was converted into a 14,000 m² handling area for departing passengers of Israeli and US airlines. Terminal 5 is currently inactive; it is to be rebuilt and finally part of the planned Terminal 4 will open up. There is now a separate area in Terminal 3 for the airlines mentioned.

The airport has two baggage sorting systems. One system was located in the main building of Terminal 3 for a long time and was then replaced by a new one in its pier, which, after renovations, increased the handling capacity of the main building. Another new feature is the baggage sorting system at Terminal 1, which was installed to the east of the terminal in another former freight building.

Within the semicircular terminal area there are parking lots, multi-storey car parks, administration and service facilities, an airport hotel and the train station . To the east of the airport there are several long-term parking spaces and another hotel. The new Cargo City was opened here in August 2005 and is used to handle air freight traffic. In the southeast there is an aircraft maintenance center with a total of six hangars and various Alitalia facilities.

Sketch of the airport

The new 160 hectare Parco Leonardo district was built near the airport along the A91 motorway . There are shopping centers , amusement parks and pedestrian zones, among other things . Immediately to the east is the Rome Exhibition Center (Fiera di Roma) . The Parco Leonardo and Fiera di Roma can be reached from the airport and the city center with the FL-1 S-Bahn.

Runways

The airport has four runways , three of which are used as such. The 3900 meter long runways 16R / 34L and 16L / 34R, located around four kilometers apart and running parallel in a north-south direction, can be operated independently of one another. In the main approach direction 16 (from the north) they are approved for all-weather flight operation level CAT IIIb , in approach direction 34 only for CAT I. On the 16L / 34R located in the north-east, mainly aircraft from the Schengen area land, which are then processed at the terminals 1 and 3 takes place. The 16R / 34L, which runs along the coast, are mainly used by aircraft that fly to or from destinations outside the Schengen area, including many wide-body aircraft that are processed at Terminal 3 and its satellites. The 3300 meter long runway 07/25, located between the two parallel slopes, is usually used for take-offs to the west when there is a corresponding westerly wind. An ILS CAT I is available for very rare landings in approach direction 25 (from the east), none for even more rare landings from the west (from the sea).

In 1999 the runway of the 16L / 34R in the northeast was expanded to the reserve runway 16C / 34C. Since a lot of landings take place on the 16L / 34R, there is a higher need for maintenance because of the greater wear and tear and the less stable subsurface. If renovation work is taking place on the 16L / 34R, the 3600 meter long reserve runway 16C / 34C is activated, which in turn has its own new taxiway.

Between 2008 and 2015, all of the airport's runways were completely renovated . The 16C / 34C was last available as a runway from May to October 2015; since then it has been used again as Taxiway D.

history

Eastern airport area (2008)
Terminal 3
Alitalia maintenance center
Satellite in the northwest of the apron
The train station at the airport
Sunrise in Fiumicino

In Italy in the 1920s and 1930s, much of the commercial air traffic was carried out by flying boats or seaplanes . In the case of the city of Rome, these were dispatched in Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber. At the time, conventional passenger planes mainly flew to the Rome-Urbe airport , which is located north of Rome on the Tiber . This airport was originally planned to use both types of aircraft together, with a section of the river intended for the flying boats. For reasons of capacity, the division of tasks between Ostia and the airfields in the interior remained initially. In the mid-1930s, plans for the construction of a new major airport in the south-west of Rome began to take shape. In Magliana, not far from today's Rome-Fiumicino airport, large areas on the Tiber were expropriated. Here, the project of handling conventional aircraft and flying boats at a single airport was to be implemented on a large scale , based on the model of Milan Linate airport . The planned airport was part of a new, monumental district that Benito Mussolini had built for the 1942 World Exhibition in Rome ( Esposizione Universale di Roma ) . The construction of the airport, which began in 1939, was soon discontinued due to the Second World War and the project was then abandoned entirely, also because the flying boats in air traffic at that time were neglected.

As early as 1946 the project of a major airport for the Italian capital was taken up again because the airports in Rome-Urbe and Rome-Ciampino did not meet the requirements. The locations of Castel di Decima, Casal Palocco, Magliana and Fiumicino, all of which are in the south-west of the city, were considered. In 1947 Fiumicino was finally chosen, although, as in Magliana, there were doubts about the load-bearing capacity of the subsoil. As a result, the other airport plans were changed several times and there were also some construction stops. By 1956, the two runways initially planned and laid out in T-shape were ready: Runway 16/34 (runway 1, today 16R / 34L) and runway 07/25 (runway 2) running along the coast. It was not until 1958 that the construction contracts for a large terminal (today Terminal 3) in the south-eastern area of ​​the airport site were received, although the airport was supposed to be ready for the 1960 Summer Olympics , which was not entirely successful despite the sudden, hectic hustle and bustle. Although President Giovanni Gronchi landed on August 20, 1960 with a Convair CV-440 at Fiumicino Airport, which officially opened it, the airlines did not move from Ciampino to Fiumicino until the night of January 14-15, 1961 A Lockheed Constellation of Trans World Airlines opened regular commercial flight operations .

In the following years, the airline Alitalia built its aircraft maintenance center (zona tecnica) southeast of the terminal , where several hangars have been built over time, including a paint hangar . A new terminal to handle domestic air traffic was built between the international terminal and the maintenance center. The two existing runways were extended and in the 1970s a third runway was added in the northeast (16L / 34R). In 1974 the company Aeroporti di Roma took over the operation of the two Roman airports Fiumicino and Ciampino.

In the 1980s, the international terminal with its two side piers received a number of new passenger boarding bridges . A branch line to the airport was built from the Rome – Fiumicino railway line for the 1990 World Cup , as well as new parking garages and other service facilities. In 1991 a first pier with twelve passenger boarding bridges was opened at the renewed national terminal, and then in 1995 a second pier with ten passenger boarding bridges between the national and international area. These two areas were better connected with each other through the conversion of the old, eastern side pier of Terminal 3 and thus the beginning of a contiguous check-in area along the circular access road. The people mover planned in this context , which was supposed to connect all areas (terminals), was put into operation in 1999 on a section between the international Terminal 3 and the satellite. The construction of a new pier in front of Terminal 3 took until the end of 2016. With this structure, the long-planned project of a contiguous, semicircular handling complex with several piers or satellites reaching into the apron can be considered complete, although further expansion possibilities exist at the edges in the southwest and east.

future

The current terminal facilities will be expanded gradually. Terminal 1 will have a new pier in the east and an annex to the west, which will be replaced by the small Terminal 2. Terminal 3 will be joined by semicircular Terminal 4 and a government terminal in a south-westerly direction. Terminal 5 may then be demolished to make room for a new terminal 4 pier, which is to be built in the south-western apron area. After the demolition of the current Terminals 2 and 5, Terminal 1 will keep its number, while the existing Terminal 3 and the planned Terminal 4 will be renamed Terminal 2 and 3.

With the pier on the east side of Terminal 1 and the one in the south-western apron area, the last expansion stage of the previous handling area has been reached. In the south-west there would then be smaller areas for further expansion, while parts of the Alitalia maintenance center would have to be relocated in the east. The airport operator did not want to consider these extreme measures in favor of another major project for a long time.

The airport has very large expansion areas north of runway 07/25. When runway 07/25 was extended in an easterly direction at the beginning of the 1970s, a road tunnel was also built under the runway and the runway running parallel to it. This means that the northern part of the airport can be reached from the south between the apron in the west and Cargo City in the east. In the long term, major expansion measures are planned in the north. A motorway-like feeder will lead from the A12 motorway in the north to the northern airport site. On both sides of this new road, terminal facilities, aprons, taxiways and two new runways are to be built on the northern part, all in a north-south direction (16/34). A people mover is to connect the old terminals in the south with the new terminal complex through the tunnel mentioned and finally end in the far north on the Pisa – Rome railway line . This master plan was developed together with the operator of Singapore Airport . However, the complete realization of this project is still a long way off, also because environmental protection organizations and residents are strictly against the expansion in the north and demand better use of the available land in the south.

On October 28, 2019, the Italian Ministry of the Environment rejected the "Fiumicino Nord" expansion project described above as part of an environmental impact assessment because the planned expansion would have included parts of a nature reserve . However, the ministry made no objection to a more limited expansion project with just one additional runway.

Airlines and Destinations

The airport is served by around 100 airlines. Destinations in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Europe are served non-stop.

The airport normally only serves civil scheduled , charter and cargo air traffic . The Rome Ciampino Airport and the Rome Urbe Airport are available for general aviation . Government aircraft are handled in Rome-Fiumicino if there is a special need, especially if the runway in Rome-Ciampino is too short for them. The remaining military air traffic is handled by the Pratica di Mare military airfield located around 20 kilometers southeast of Fiumicino .

Traffic figures

Source: Assaeroporti
Rome-Fiumicino Airport - traffic figures 2000-2019
year Passenger volume Air freight, air mail ( tons ) Flight movements
2019 43,532,573 194,527 309.783
2018 42.995.119 205,879 307.736
2017 40,971,881 185,899 297,491
2016 41,744,769 160.904 314.167
2015 40.463.208 145.017 315.217
2014 38,506,908 143.088 308.144
2013 36.166.345 141,911 298.233
2012 36,980,911 143.244 309.719
2011 37,651,700 151,867 324.314
2010 36,337,523 164,545 329.269
2009 33,808,456 138,988 324.497
2008 35.226.351 153.206 346,650
2007 32.945.223 154,831 334.848
2006 30.176.760 164,761 315,627
2005 28,683,456 171,222 308.284
2004 28,119,567 175.097 309,658
2003 26,284,759 172,798 300,831
2002 25.340.383 176.395 282,787
2001 25,565,727 186.038 283,748
2000 26.288.181 202.378 283,444

Incidents

  • On December 17, 1973, Palestinian terrorists dropped hand grenades into a Boeing 707-321B operated by Pan American World Airways (N407PA) at Rome Fiumicino Airport while passengers were boarding . 29 passengers and one crew member were killed. The machine was damaged beyond repair. The terrorists then shot a security guard and hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 737 to Kuwait , where they gave up a day later.
  • On January 7, 1980, an Alitalia DC-9 burned down in Hangar 2 of the zona tecnica , where it was subjected to a C-Check .
  • Palestinian terrorists carried out attacks on December 27, 1985 at the airports of Vienna-Schwechat and Rome-Fiumicino, with 16 deaths and around 100 injured in Fiumicino.
  • On October 17, 1988, 33 people lost their lives when a Uganda Airlines plane crashed while landing in Fiumicino.
  • At the beginning of 2010, security gaps became apparent in the international terminal when a reporter was able to enter the security zone at night without any control, as it was only guarded during the day.
  • On February 2, 2013, an ATR 72 operated by Carpatair on behalf of Alitalia came off the runway on landing. 16 people were injured on board the machine.
  • On September 29, 2013, an Alitalia Airbus A320 coming from Madrid had to make an emergency landing in Fiumicino because the landing gear could not be fully extended. Ten out of 151 passengers were slightly injured.
  • In the early morning hours of May 7, 2015, a fire broke out in Terminal 3, which triggered a large-scale operation by the airport fire department. The airport remained closed for several hours and the terminal's handling capacity was restricted for several months.

Others

Skytrax has been running Rome-Fiumicino Airport as Four Star Airport since 2018 . In 2018 and 2019, the airport received the Airport Service Quality Award from Airports Council International (ACI) in the category "Europe, over 40 million passengers", and in 2018 and 2019 from ACI Europe the Best Airport Award in the category "over 25 million passengers".

A few hundred meters south of the airport is the hexagonal Lago di Traiano , a former port basin of the Portus Romae . Ostia Antica is around three kilometers to the southeast .

See also

Web links

Commons : Fiumicino Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Rome Fiumicino Airport  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADR facts and figures. ADR.it , accessed on November 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Statistiche. Assaeroporti , accessed April 27, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ^ Information from ADR on taxis ; For trips of up to four people with luggage in licensed white taxis to destinations within the Aurelian Wall, there is a fixed price of 48 euros (as of April 2015).
  4. ↑ Trasporti, arriva l'Alta velocità per Fiumicino. Domenica il debutto. In: La Repubblica (Roma), December 9, 2014
  5. ↑ Brief description of the T1 system on spea-engineering.it (English)
  6. ↑ Press release on the BHS from December 18, 2018 on leonardocompany.com (English)
  7. ↑ ADR site plans
  8. ↑ Website of the Rome Fair (Italian / English)
  9. ^ Apt Roma Fiumicino, All Weather Operations, Lettera di Operazioni. ENAV-CoR, 10 October 2017
  10. ↑ Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica (3/2010) on the underground problems of the 16L / 34R. In: associazionegeotecnica.it
  11. ↑ Details. In: pavimental.it (also archive)
  12. ↑ AIP Italia, Supplement 3/2015. In: enav.it
  13. ↑ Plan of the Aeroporto della Magliana
  14. ↑ Extensive planning of the Aeroporto della Magliana
  15. ↑ La Repubblica on the 50th anniversary of the airport (1960-2010)
  16. ^ Contratto di programma ENAC-ADR, Piano Investimenti 2017–2021. Aviation Authority ENAC & Airport Operator CoR
  17. ^ Operativo il raddoppio di Fiumicino. In: La Repubblica , accessed October 2011
  18. ^ Piano di sviluppo. In: Aeroporti di Roma , accessed September 2011
  19. ↑ Graphic representation of the expansion plans. In: ilsole24ore.com , accessed August 2012
  20. ^ Website of the opponents of expansion. In: comitatofuoripista.it
  21. ↑ Communication from the Italian Ministry of the Environment dated October 28, 2019 In: minambiente.it , accessed November 2019
  22. ↑ Fiumicino, Ministero dell'Ambiente boccia il progetto per l'ampliamento: “Incompatibile con la riserva naturale dove dovrebbe cares” In: ilfattoquotidiano.it , October 28, 2019, accessed in November 2019
  23. ↑ List of airlines. ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: adr.it (including former companies and those that no longer fly to Fiumicino) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adr.it
  24. ↑ Accident Report B-707 N769TW , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16 of 2019.
  25. ↑ List of all incidents in FCO. In: airports-rome.com (English)
  26. ↑ Accident Report B-707 N407PA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16 of 2019.
  27. ^ Accident report B-707 ET-ACD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 31, 2019.
  28. ↑ Security zone at night without control . In: tagesschau.de . February 5, 2010. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved on February 6, 2010.
  29. ^ Rome - crash landing with injured people. In: aerotelegraph.com , accessed February 4, 2013
  30. ↑ Landing gear problems - Alitalia plane tips on its side in an emergency landing. In: Spiegel.de , September 30, 2013
  31. ↑ Fiumicino: Rome airport closed for hours after a fire. In: Spiegel.de , May 7, 2015
  32. ↑ Incendio a Fiumicino: Enac riduce operatività scalo, chiuso Terminal 3. Corriere della Sera, June 10, 2015
  33. ↑ Rome Fiumicino certified as 4-Star Airport . skytraxratings.com, March 21, 2018
  34. ↑ ACI Media Releases: World's top airports celebrated at ACI Airport Service Quality Awards gala . aci.aero, 2019
  35. ↑ Airports Council International: Best Airport by Size and Region . aci.aero, 2018
  36. ↑ ACI Europe Best Airport Award winners for 2019 announced . traveldailynews.com, June 27, 2019