Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
| Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino Roma/Fiumicino Airport |
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| IATA: FCO – ICAO: LIRF | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aeroporti di Roma SpA | ||
| Serves | Rome | ||
| Location | Fiumicino | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 15 feet (4.6 m) ft / 5 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 07/25 | 3,309 | 10,856 | Asphalt |
| 16R/34L | 3,900 | 12,795 | Asphalt |
| 16L/34R | 3,900 | 12,795 | Asphalt |
| 16C/34C | 3,600 | 11,811 | Asphalt |
| Source: Italian Aeronautical Information Publication[1] [2] |
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Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino) (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), also commonly known as Fiumicino Airport, is Italy's largest airport with 35,226,351 passengers served in 2008, located in Fiumicino, 35 km from Rome's historic city centre.
It was the world's 27th busiest airport by passenger traffic in 2009, and the hub for Alitalia.
The airport is named after Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, who first designed a proto helicopter and a flying machine with wings.
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History
The airport was officially opened on January 15, 1961, with two runways, replacing the small Rome Ciampino Airport which remains in service for domestic and charter operations. During the decade Alitalia invested heavily in the new airport, building hangars and maintenance centers; in the same period a third runway was added (16L/34R).
Four runways presently operate at Leonardo da Vinci airport: 16L/34R and 16R/34L (separated by a distance of 4,000 metres), 16C/34C (close to 16L/34R), mostly used as a taxiway or as a backup of 16L/34R, and 07/25, used only westwards for takeoffs due to dominant winds.
Since 2005 the airport operates a category III B instrument landing system (ILS). Further improvement work was implemented in 2007 to enable the airport to handle 30 takeoffs/landings per hour, up from 10, in the event of thick fog.
The terminal areas were upgraded during the 1990s [3]:
- 1991: Opening of the domestic pier with 12 loading bridges (Pier A);
- 1995: Opening of the international pier with 10 loading bridges (Pier B);
- 1999: Opening of the west satellite with 11 loading bridges (satellite C) and sky-bridge train connecting it with the main terminal;
- 2000: Opening of the new domestic terminal (terminal A). Reorganization of terminal buildings, now comprising of: terminal A (and pier A), terminal AA, terminal B (and pier B), terminal C (and west satellite);
- 2004: Opening of new cargo terminal called Cargo City;
- 2008: Opening of terminal 5 for check-in of American carrier flights and El-Al (passengers are then bussed to the Main terminal building); serves 950,000 passengers per year. Extended work to build new pier C.
The next commitments will be the following:
- completion of environment-friendly cogeneration system allowing the airport to self-produce energy;
- finalisation of a second Baggage Handling System (BHS) expected to be launched in May 2010;
- the new pier C (dedicated to international flights) with 16 additional loading bridges, to be completed by 2011-2012 to enable handling the expected growth from present-day 38 million passengers per year to 55 million by 2018.
Terminals, airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Mykonos [seasonal], Rhodes , Samos [seasonal] | 3 |
| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International [seasonal], Cork [seasonal], Dublin | 3 |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 3 |
| Aerolíneas Argentinas | Buenos Aires-Ezeiza | 3 |
| Afriqiyah Airways | Tripoli | 3 |
| Air Algérie | Algiers | 3 |
| Air Alps | Bolzano, Parma, Rimini [seasonal] | 1 |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg | 3 |
| Air Canada | Montréal-Trudeau [seasonal], Toronto-Pearson [seasonal] | 3 |
| Air China | Beijing-Capital | 3 |
| Air Europa | Madrid, Palma de Mallorca | 3 |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1 |
| Air France operated by Brit Air | Lyon | 1 |
| Air France operated by CCM Airlines | Marseille | 1 |
| Air France operated by Régional | Bordeaux, Toulouse | 1 |
| Air Italy | Turin | 1 |
| Air Italy | Asmara, Dabaa City, Dubai, Fortaleza, Havana, Hurghada, Maceio, Mombasa, Natal, Nosy Be, Pointe a Pitre, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Air Malta | Malta, Reggio Calabria | 3 |
| Air Moldova | Chisinau | 3 |
| Air Seychelles | Mahé | 3 |
| Air Transat | Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver [All Seasonal] | 3 |
| AirBaltic | Riga, Vilnius | 3 |
| Alitalia | Amsterdam, Ancona, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Orio al Serio, Munich, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Turin, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Warsaw | 1 |
| Alitalia | Accra, Algiers, Amman, Beirut, Belgrade, Boston, Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Cairo, Casablanca, Chicago-O'Hare, Damascus, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lagos, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, St Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sofia, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Tunis | 3 |
| Alitalia operated by Air One | Alghero, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Budapest, Crotone, Frankfurt, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Pantelleria, London-Heathrow, Thessaloniki, Trieste, Turin, Verona, Vienna | 1 |
| Alitalia operated by Alitalia Express | Crotone | 1 |
| American Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK [All Seasonal] | 5 |
| Armavia | Yerevan | 3 |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna | 3 |
| Baboo | Geneva | 3 |
| Belavia | Minsk | 3 |
| Belle Air | Pristina, Tirana | 3 |
| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Dhaka | 3 |
| Blue Air | Bacau, Bucharest-Baneasa | 2 |
| Blue Panorama Airlines | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancun, Cayo Largo, Havana, Hurghada, Kos, La Romana, Luxor, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mykonos, Montego-Bay, Palma de Mallorca, Marsa Matrouh, Phuket, Roatan, Santiago de Cuba, Santorini, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Blue1 | Helsinki | 3 |
| Blu-express | Brindisi, Catania, Chania , Corfu, Genoa, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kos , Lampedusa, Minorca , Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Pantelleria, Rhodes , Santorini, Turin | 3 |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow | 3 |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels | 3 |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia | 3 |
| Carpatair | Craiova, Timisoara | 3 |
| Cathay Pacific Airways | Hong Kong | 3 |
| China Airlines | Delhi, Taipei-Taoyuan | 3 |
| Cimber Sterling | Billund, Copenhagen | 3 |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter | 3 |
| Continental Airlines | Newark | 5 |
| Croatia Airlines | Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb | 3 |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca, Milan-Malpensa | 3 |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | 3 |
| Darwin Airline | Lugano | 3 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, Detroit [seasonal], New York-JFK | 5 |
| EasyJet | Amsterdam, Athens, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Bilbao [begins 2 November], Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Heraklion, Lamezia Terme, Ibiza, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Malta, Milan-Malpensa, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Split, Toulouse [begins 11 September], Venice-Marco Polo | 2 |
| EgyptAir | Cairo, Luxor [ends 25 October], Sharm el-Sheikh [ends 24 October] | 3 |
| El Al | Tel Aviv | 5 |
| Emirates | Dubai | 3 |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 3 |
| Finnair | Helsinki | 3 |
| FlyOristano | Oristano | 3 |
| Freebird Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen | 3 |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart | 3 |
| Iberia | Madrid | 3 |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Bilbao [seasonal] | 3 |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 3 |
| Japan Airlines | Tokyo-Narita [ends 1 October] | 3 |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade | 3 |
| Jet2.com | Leeds/Bradford, Manchester | 3 |
| Kenya Airways | Nairobi [resumes 16 December] | 3 |
| KLM | Amsterdam | 1 |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | 3 |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 3 |
| Libyan Airlines | Benghazi, Tripoli | 3 |
| Livingston Energy Flight | Cancún, Faro, Fortaleza, Fuerteventura, Havana, Ibiza, La Romana, Lourdes, Maceio, Malé, Marsa Matrouh, Mombasa, Salvador da Bahia, Santorini, Tenerife-South | 3 |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Kraków [seasonal], Warsaw | 3 |
| Lufthansa | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich | 3 |
| Luxair | Luxembourg | 3 |
| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur | 3 |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | 3 |
| Meridiana Fly | Cagliari, Olbia, Turin, Verona | 1 |
| Meridiana Fly | Colombo, Dakar, Malé, Mauritius, Mombasa, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 3 |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica | 3 |
| Neos | Boa Vista, Mahon, Malé, Marsa Matrouh, Mombasa, Rhodes, Sal, Tel Aviv | 3 |
| Niki | Vienna | 3 |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda, Warsaw | 3 |
| Olympic Air | Athens | 3 |
| Onur Air | Antalya | 3 |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 3 |
| Pegasus Airlines | İstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen | 3 |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg | 3 |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca | 3 |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 3 |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh | 3 |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda [seasonal] | 3 |
| Singapore Airlines | Singapore | 3 |
| Smart Wings | Prague | 3 |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo | 3 |
| Sun d'Or International Airlines | Tel Aviv [seasonal] | 3 |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich | 3 |
| Syrian Air | Aleppo, Damascus | 3 |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 3 |
| TAP operated by Portugalia | Porto | 3 |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Otopeni | 3 |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 3 |
| Transavia.com | Rotterdam | 3 |
| Transavia.com Denmark | Copenhagen | 3 |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka, Tunis | 3 |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 3 |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Donetsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv | 3 |
| United Airlines | Chicago-O'Hare [seasonal], Washington-Dulles | 5 |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterinburg | 3 |
| US Airways | Charlotte, Philadelphia | 5 |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 3 |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca [begins 14 September], Paris-Orly, Seville, Valencia | 3 |
| Wind Jet | Catania, Forlì, Palermo | 2 |
| Wizz Air | Belgrade [begins 15 December 2010], Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdansk, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Timisoara, Warsaw | 3 |
| Yemenia | Sana'a | 3 |
Ground handling
Ground handling services have been provided by Aeroporti di Roma up to 1999 when it created Aeroporti di Roma Handling (to serve all airlines apart from Alitalia, which continued being handled by Aeroporti di Roma itself). Alitalia provided passenger assistance even before 1999. In 2001 Alitalia created Alitalia Airport and started providing self-handling and third party handling. Air One created EAS and started providing third-party services too. Aeroporti di Roma Handling remains the biggest handler in terms of airlines handled but Alitalia Airport is the biggest handler in terms of airplanes handled as Alitalia aircraft account for 50% of the ones in Fiumicino. There are some private handlers that provide passenger assistance alone: ARE Group, Globeground Italia and ICTS Italia.
On 2 May 2006 Meridiana's passenger handling staff transferred to Alitalia Airport and the ramp transferred to Alitalia Airport in February 2007 (from Aeroporti di Roma Handling).
The ground handling deregulation has brought confusion on who does what and has decreased service levels especially on transferring baggage.
In May 2006 Italy's Civil Aviation Authority announced that it took off the limitation of 3 ramp handlers in Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport. ARE Group and Aviapartner announced that they would create a company called Aviapartner (51% Aviapartner; 49% ARE Group) to serve Milan Malpensa and Rome Leonardo da Vinci. There are fears that luggage mishandling will go up.
In November 2006 Aeroporti di Roma Handling was sold to Flightcare (itself owned by Spanish company FCC), an Aviance member.
Security services
Security Services transferred from the Polizia di Stato to Aeroporti di Roma in 2000. Aeroporti di Roma created Airport Security (100%-owned) to provide these services as well as security services to airlines (in competition with other security companies such as IVRI). Airport Security is supervised by Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Police), Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority) and Aeroporti di Roma.
Ground transportation
Leonardo da Vinci is about 35 kilometres (22 miles) by car from Rome's historic city centre. The airport is well served by the 6-lane motorway A91 Roma-Fiumicino and numerous buses and taxis.
The airport is served by the Leonardo Express train operated by Trenitalia, available at the airport terminal. It takes 30 minutes to get to Termini Station in a non-stop trip that is provided twice an hour. Alternatively, local trains leave once every 15 minutes, stopping at all stations. Passengers may have to change at Trastevere, Ostiense (Metro Piramide) or Tuscolana.[4]
Accidents and incidents
From the 1960s until the 1980s, the airport experienced significant aircraft hijackings as well as became the scene of two major terrorist attacks and the port of origin for an aircraft bombing in flight—all engendered by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- On 23 November 1964 TWA Flight 800 (1964) a engine caught fire on the Boeing 707 during take off. 50 out of the 73 passengers and crew on board were killed.
- On 05 March 1967 Varig flight 837, a Douglas DC-8-33 registration PP-PEA flying from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão via Monrovia, caught fire after a mistaken approach to Monrovia, missing the threshold of the runway by 6,023 ft. Of the 90 passengers and crew aboard, 51 died.
- On 17 December 1973 Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) Flight 110 was attacked by Palestinian terrorists. 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs were thrown aboard the aircraft as it was preparing for departure.
- On 29 January 1974 Meld Meir, Mossad director was nearly assassinated by the Black September Organisation but was foiled at the last minute when the Mossad agents foiled the attempt.
- On 27 December 1985 during the Rome and Vienna airport attacks terrorists shot and killed 16 people and wounded 99 other at the airport.
- On 2 April 1986, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 840, which was travelling from Fiumicino to Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, was bombed, ejecting 4 people out of the plane to their deaths. The plane landed safely.
- On 17 October 1988, Uganda Airlines flight 775, en route from London Gatwick Airport to Rome then Entebbe International Airport, crashed short of the runway after two missed approaches. 26 of 45 aboard and all 7 crew members died.
- 7 September 2005 - Ryanair is under investigation by ANSV, the Italian air accident investigation agency, for an attempted bad weather approach. During an unstabilised approach, the non-flying co-pilot had to intervene to initiate a late go-around, then the crew decided to divert to Pescara.
Media appearances
The mission "Rome-Naples Airline Run" supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X begins at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport.
References
- ↑ ENAV S.p.A.
- ↑ A6856/07 NOTAMN from European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
- ↑ Expansion projects at Fiumicino
- ↑ http://www.adr.it/portal/portal/adr/Fiumicino/Servizi/Come_raggiungerci/Arrivo_in_treno_FCO
External links
- Airport information for LIRF at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for LIRF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for LIRF at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for FCO at Aviation Safety Network
- Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (English)
- Rome Airport Fiumicino Information (English)
- Boeing Company's listing of Fiumicino Airport, its runways, and noise abatement procedures
- Airport information from World Aeronautical Database
- UK team to plan Rome Fiumicino international terminal expansion
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