Trapani-Birgi Airport

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Vincenzo Florio Airport

IATA: TPS - ICAO: LICT
Summary
Airport type		Public & Military
Serves		Trapani
Elevation AMSL		24 ft (7 m)
Coordinates		37°54′41″N, 12°29′16″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
13/31	8,852	2,698	Asphalt

Vincenzo Florio Airport (IATA: TPS, ICAO: LICT), also known as Trapani-Birgi Airport and Birgi Airport, is an airport located in Trapani, Italy. It is one of the five airports in Sicily with civil purposes, but is also used for military issues (namely the base is used as one of the four Forward Operating Bases [FOBs] used by the NATO AWACS stationed out of Geilenkirchen Germany]). The airport is named after Sicilian wine industralist and automobile enthusiast Vincenzo Florio.

Located 13 km south west of Trapani, and inaugurated in the early 1960s, after a long period of inactivity the airport was relaunched by the Province of Trapani in 2003, and now it hosts several flights, included new low-cost connections.

With 507.185 passengers went through the airport in 2007, it is the third airport of Sicily for relevance.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Avanti Air (Pantelleria)
Air One (Bari, Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino)
Club Air (Bologna, Brussels-Charleroi)
Meridiana (Palermo, Pantelleria)
Ryanair (Barcelona-Girona, Birmingham [begins 2 July], Bremen, Dublin, Dusseldorf-Weeze, Frankfurt-Hahn, Milan-Orio al Serio [begins July 4], Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta)