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Cagliari Elmas Airport

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Cagliari Elmas Airport

International "Mario Mameli"

Aeroporto di Cagliari
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorSo.G.Aer. S.p.A.
ServesCagliari, Sardinia
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL13 ft / 4 m
Coordinates39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E / 39.2514694; 9.0542833
WebsiteOfficial website
Map
CAG is located in Sardinia
CAG
CAG
Location of the airport in Sardinia
CAG is located in Italy
CAG
CAG
CAG (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers4,396,594
Passenger change 21-22Increase 59.6%
Aircraft movements37,740
Movements change 21-22Increase 33.4%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

Cagliari Elmas Airport (IATA: CAG, ICAO: LIEE) is an international airport located in the territory of Elmas, near Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia.

History

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Check-in hall

The airport opened on 3 May 1937.[2] It was upgraded in 2003 and the terminal was expanded and provided with 6 jetbridges for passenger boarding, with a capacity of 4 million passengers per year. In 2018, the airport handled 4,370,014 passengers. It was named in 1937 after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot from the fascist-era Italian airforce shot down in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Cagliari Elmas Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta Malta
AlbaStar Seasonal: Bergamo
Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa[3]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[4]
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid[5]
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino[3]
KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines Seasonal charter: Innsbruck[6]
Neos Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa,[7] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa,[8] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg,[9] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,[10] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyAlps Seasonal: Bolzano
SmartwingsSeasonal: Prague
TransaviaSeasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal AirSeasonal: Prague[11]
Volotea Ancona, Barcelona, Milan–Linate, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Verona
Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Florence, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Salerno, Toulouse, Venice
VuelingBarcelona

Statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

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The airport is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Cagliari city centre. A railway station serving the airport enables connections to most Sardinian towns.

Accidents and incidents

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  • On September 14, 1979, Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12, a DC-9-32 crashed in the mountains near Cagliari, Italy while approaching Cagliari-Elmas Airport. All 27 passengers and 4 crew members died in the crash and ensuing fire.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  2. ^ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
  3. ^ a b "ECCO I VOLI DELLA SUMMER 2023 A CAGLIARI" [Here's the services for Summer 23 from/to Cagliari] (PDF). sogaer.com (in Italian). 14 March 2023.
  4. ^ https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/sardinia/flights-to-sardinia [bare URL]
  5. ^ "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
  6. ^ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
  8. ^ "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
  9. ^ "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
  10. ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  11. ^ "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes". 16 April 2024.
  12. ^ "ASN Aircraft Accident description of the 14 SEP 1979 accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 I-ATJC at Sarroch". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. 21 February 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
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