Pisa International Airport

Pisa International Airport
Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa
IATA: PSA – ICAO: LIRP
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Aeronautica Militare Italiana / Società Aeroporto Toscano S.p.A.
Serves Pisa, Italy
Elevation AMSL 6 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 43°41′02″N 010°23′33″E / 43.68389°N 10.39250°ECoordinates: 43°41′02″N 010°23′33″E / 43.68389°N 10.39250°E
Website www.pisa-airport.com
Map
PSA

Location in Italy

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 2,993 9,819 Asphalt
04L/22R 2,792 9,160 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 4,683,811
Passenger change 13-14 Increase +4,6%
Aircraft movements 38,868
Movements change 13–14 Decrease −0.2%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Pisa International Airport [3] (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa) (IATA: PSA, ICAO: LIRP), formerly Galileo Galilei Airport and San Giusto Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany. Its former name was after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930 and 1940s. The airport was used by 4,683,811 passengers in 2014. It serves as a focus city of Alitalia and Ryanair.

Overview

The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed on 15 December 2013 to allow construction work to begin on a new fully automatic connection to be known as the Pisa Mover to take passengers to Pisa Central – at the moment a direct bus makes the connection.

Besides civilian operations, the airport is also used extensively by the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) and is a base for, amongst others, the C-130 Hercules and C-27J Spartan transport aircraft.[4] The airport is home to 46ª Brigata Aerea Silvio Angelucci (46th Air Brigade). During the end of World War II the airport was used as a base for the 15th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 6 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has 2 asphalt paved runways: 04R/22L measuring 3,002 by 45 metres (9,849 ft × 148 ft) and 04L/22R measuring 2,793 by 43 metres (9,163 ft × 141 ft).[5]


Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
airBaltic Summer seasonal: Riga (begins 13 June 2015)
Aegean Airlines Summer seasonal: Athens (begins 26 June 2015)[6]
Alitalia Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Tirana
Summer seasonal: Mosca-Sheremetyevo (begins 30 May 2015), Olbia (begins 29 May 2015)
Alitalia
operated by Darwin Airline		 Rome-Fiumicino
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines		 Tirana
Summer seasonal charter: Marsa Alam
British Airways London-Heathrow
Summer seasonal: London-Gatwick
Delta Air Lines Summer seasonal: New York-JFK
easyJet Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Hamburg,[7] London-Gatwick, Manchester (begins 17 June 2015),[7] Paris-Orly
Summer seasonal: London-Luton
Finnair Summer seasonal: Helsinki
Germanwings Summer seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Jet2.com Summer seasonal: Belfast-International, East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Air Dolomiti		 Munich
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine		 Munich
Norwegian Air Shuttle Summer seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Ryanair Alghero, Bari, Beauvais, Brindisi, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Comiso, Crotone, Eindhoven, Fez, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Marrakesh, Palermo, Seville, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Valencia
Summer seasonal: Billund, Cephalonia, Chania, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Gdansk, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Ibiza, Kos, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Prestwick, Rhodes, Stockholm-Skavsta, Thessaloniki, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze
Scandinavian AirlinesSummer seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Silver Air Marina di Campo
Transavia Amsterdam
Transavia France Summer seasonal: Paris-Orly
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
VoloteaSummer seasonal: Athens (begins 29 May 2015), Bordeaux, Nantes
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bucharest

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle, Malta
FedEx Express Milan-Malpensa

Statistics

In 2006 and 2007 the airport was the fastest growing among Italy's top 15 airports with passenger numbers up 30% in 2006 and 24% in 2007. In 2008 it was Italy's 11th busiest airport handling 3,963,717 and 4,011,525 passengers in 2010.In 2011 the growth rise to 11.3% and the airport carried 4.526.723 passengers[4]

Accidents and incidents

On 23 November 2009, Italian Air Force Lockheed KC-130J Hercules MM62176 of the based 46 Aerobrigata crashed just after take-off. All five crew were killed.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ EAD Basic
  2. ↑ Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali
  3. ↑ http://pisaairport.altervista.org/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Pisa topping Italian airport growth rankings; Ryanair now serves 28 destinations". anna.aero. 19 September 2008.
  5. ↑ Airport information for LIRP from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  6. ↑ https://www.amadeus.net
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "New and dropped routes". Easyjet.
  8. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

External links

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