| 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 | ||
| Hub for | Alitalia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 15 feet (4.6 m) ft / 5 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 07/25 | 3,288 | 10,785 | Asphalt |
| 16R/34L | 4,012 | 13,163 | Asphalt |
| 16L/34R | 3,880 | 12,740 | Asphalt |
| 16C/34C | 3,580 | 11,761 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Total passengers | 36,337,523 | ||
| Aircraft movement | 329,269 | ||
| 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 36.3 million passengers served in 2010,[3] located in Fiumicino, 35 km from Rome's historic city centre.
The airport serves as a hub for Alitalia and based on total passenger numbers it was the sixth busiest airport in Europe, and the world's 29th busiest airport in 2011.
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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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 [4]:
The next commitments will be the following:
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Rhodes Seasonal: Heraklion, Mykonos, Santorini |
3 |
| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin | 3 |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 3 |
| Aerolíneas Argentinas | Buenos Aires-Ezeiza | 3 |
| Air Algérie | Algiers | 3 |
| Air Alps | Bolzano, Parma Seasonal: Rimini |
1 |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg | 3 |
| Air Canada | Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson | 3 |
| Air China | Beijing-Capital | 3 |
| Air Europa | Madrid Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
3 |
| Air France | Marseille [begins 25 March 2012], Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1 |
| Air France operated by Airlinair | Marseille [ends 24 March 2012] | 1 |
| Air France operated by Brit Air | Lyon | 1 |
| Air France operated by Régional | Bordeaux, Toulouse | 1 |
| Air Italy | Turin, Verona | 1 |
| Air Italy | Asmara, Dabaa City, Dubai, Fortaleza, Havana, Hurghada, Maceio, Mombasa, Natal, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Sharm el-Sheikh, Yerevan, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Air Malta | Malta | 3 |
| Air Moldova | Chişinău | 3 |
| Air Seychelles | Mahé [ends 8 January 2012] | 3 |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson | 3 |
| AirBaltic | Riga | 3 |
| Alitalia | Alghero, Amsterdam, Ancona, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Orio al Serio, Munich, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw Seasonal: Lampedusa, Pantelleria |
1 |
| Alitalia | Accra, Algiers, Amman-Queen Alia, Ankara, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Boston, Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Cairo, Casablanca, Damascus, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lagos, London-Heathrow, Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, St Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sofia, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Tunis Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles |
3 |
| Alitalia operated by Air Alps | Salerno | 1 |
| American Airlines | Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK | 5* |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Tel Aviv | 5* |
| Atlasjet | Istanbul-Atatürk | 3 |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna | 3 |
| Belavia | Minsk | 3 |
| Belle Air | Tirana | 3 |
| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Dhaka | 3 |
| Blue Air | Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa | 2 |
| Blue Panorama Airlines | Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancún, Cayo Largo, Dalaman, Havana, Hurghada, Kos, La Romana, Luxor, Mahé [begins 14 February], Malé, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Montego Bay, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Roatan, Santiago de Cuba, Santorini, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Blu-express | Antalya, Brindisi, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Genoa, Granada, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kos, Lampedusa, Minorca, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Pantelleria, Rhodes, Santorini, Skopje, Turin | 3 |
| Bmibaby | Birmingham [resumes 30 March 2012] | 3 |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow | 3 |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels | 3 |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia | 3 |
| Carpatair | Chişinău [begins 27 March], Craiova, Timişoara Seasonal: Iaşi |
3 |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong | 3 |
| China Airlines | Delhi, Taipei-Taoyuan | 3 |
| China Eastern Airlines | Shanghai-Pudong | 3 |
| Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen | 3 |
| Croatia Airlines | Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb | 3 |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca | 3 |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | 3 |
| Darwin Airline | Geneva, Lugano, Rimini | 3 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta Seasonal: Detroit, New York-JFK |
5* |
| EasyJet | Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao, Bristol, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Heraklion, Ibiza, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Split, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo | 2 |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva | 2 |
| EgyptAir | Cairo | 3 |
| El Al | Tel Aviv | 5* |
| Emirates | Dubai | 3 |
| Eritrean Airlines | Asmara | 3 |
| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 3 |
| Europe Airpost | Ostend, Tangier | 3 |
| Finnair | Helsinki | 3 |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart | 3 |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain | 3 |
| Iberia | Madrid | 3 |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid Seasonal: León |
3 |
| Israir Airlines | Tel Aviv | 5 |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade | 3 |
| Jet2.com | Glasgow-International [begins 16 March 2012], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle | 3 |
| Kenya Airways | Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta | 3 |
| KLM | Amsterdam | 1 |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | 3 |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 3 |
| Libyan Airlines | Benghazi, Tripoli | 3 |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw | 3 |
| Lufthansa | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich | 3 |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti | Munich | 3 |
| Luxair | Luxembourg | 3 |
| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur [ends 2 February][5] | 3 |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest | 3 |
| Meridiana Fly | Cagliari, Olbia, Turin, Verona | 1 |
| Meridiana Fly | Dakar, Malé, Mauritius, Mombasa, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 3 |
| Mistral Air | Lourdes | Cargo |
| Monarch | Birmingham, London-Luton, Manchester [All begins 25 March 2012] | 3 |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica | 3 |
| Neos | Boa Vista, Cancún, Mahé, Malé, Mombasa, Tel Aviv, Zanzibar | 3 |
| Niki | Vienna | 3 |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda | 3 |
| Onur Air | Antalya | 3 |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | 3 |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen | 3 |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg | 3 |
| Royal Air Maroc | Casablanca | 3 |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia | 3 |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh | 3 |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo -Gardermoen Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda |
3 |
| Singapore Airlines | Singapore | 3 |
| Sky Work Airlines | Bern | 3 |
| Smart Wings | Prague | 3 |
| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo | 3 |
| Sun d'Or operated by El Al |
Tel Aviv | 5* |
| Sunwing Airlines | Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson | 5* |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich | 3 |
| Syrian Air | Aleppo, Damascus | 3 |
| TACV | Sal | 3 |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 3 |
| TAP operated by Portugália | Porto | 3 |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Otopeni | 3 |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 3 |
| Transaero | Charter: Moscow-Domodedovo | 3 |
| Transavia.com | Rotterdam | 3 |
| Tunisair | Monastir, Tunis | 3 |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | 3 |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev-Boryspil | 3 |
| United Airlines | Newark, Washington-Dulles | 5* |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterinburg | 3 |
| US Airways | Charlotte, Philadelphia | 5* |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 3 |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid [ends 8 January 2012], Málaga, Minorca, Nantes, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Valencia | 3 |
| Wind Jet | Catania, Forlì, Palermo | 2 |
| Wind Jet | Seasonal Charter: Tel Aviv | 5* |
| Wizz Air | Belgrade, Brno, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdansk, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Târgu Mureş, Timisoara, Vilnius, Warsaw | 2 |
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All Nippon Airways has its Rome Sales Office in the Room 447 in the Office Tower (Torre Uffici), on the airport property.[9][10] Cathay Pacific has its Rome Office in Torre Uffici 2.[11]
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 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.
Leonardo da Vinci is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) by car from Rome's historic city centre. The airport is served by the six-lane motorway A91 Roma-Fiumicino and numerous buses and taxis.
Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station 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.[12] The railway was scheduled to open in December 1989, with nonstop and several stop services available.[13]
From the 1960s until the 1980s, the airport experienced significant aircraft hijackings as well as being the scene of two major terrorist attacks and the port of origin for an aircraft bombing in flight—some engendered by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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