Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport
Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda
IATA: OLB – ICAO: LIEO
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner/Operator Geasar S.p.A.
Serves Olbia
Location Olbia, Italy
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 37 ft / 11 m
Coordinates 40°53′09″N 09°31′01″E / 40.88583°N 9.51694°E / 40.88583; 9.51694Coordinates: 40°53′09″N 09°31′01″E / 40.88583°N 9.51694°E / 40.88583; 9.51694
Website www.geasar.it/eng/airport
Map
OLB

Location of airport in Sardinia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 2,445 8,025 Concrete / Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 2,240,016
Passenger change 14–15 Increase +5.3%
Aircraft movements 28,272
Movements change 14–15 Decrease -1%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda) (IATA: OLB, ICAO: LIEO) is an airport in Olbia, Sardinia. It is the primary operating base for Italian airline Meridiana whose headquarters are located at the airport. It mostly handles seasonal holiday flights from destinations in Europe.

Olbia Airport, which GEASAR the management company (founded in 1985 and became operational in March 1989) that can provide a range of services to its users.

History

A military airfield was opened at Olbia (then Terranova Pausania) in 1921, and a seaplane base was inaugurated close to the Isola Bianca harbour in 1927, although poor loads from the island on the flights to Ostia and Cagliari led to the service's stop in Terranova being discontinued in 1929. The airfield and seaplane base were targeted by Allied bombing in World War II, and the Germans opened another airfield 4.5 miles west of the town, which was renamed Olbia in 1945. Commercial flights gradually returned and in 1963 the Olbia-based airline Alisarda was formed. It successfully expanded its route network, introducing jet flights in 1972, and it was renamed Meridiana in 1991. However, the introduction of jet aircraft necessitated the building of a larger airport nearer the city; the current airport was completed in 1974.

The New Terminal has been officially opened on June, 6th 2004. The project of a renovation, designed by the well known architect Willem Brower and the engineering office Geogramma, begun in 2000. During the last three years, investments for 46 million euro have been realized and, in the next 3 years, investments in infrastructures and security for 35 millions euro have been forecasted. The air terminal now covers a total surface of 42.000 sqm, three times the size of the original facility. It now also boasts 40 check in desks, 15 exit, 5 fingers and a large 2.200 sqm shopping area which also offers a range of services. The new terminal has been designed to cater to the needs of 4.5 million passengers per year. Its modern elegant architecture blends beautifully into the surrounding countryside. The new facility ensures that travelers time there will be spent as pleasantly and comfortably as possible.

The new control tower is 42 m of highness and hosts on surface of 120 sqm, the third biggest operative room in Italy after Milano Malpensa and Bologna. In the same room the air-traffic controllers manage the Tower service (TWR) for landings and take off and the Radar service (APP-approach) for airplane from-to Olbia Airport. The operative emplacements are 3, all provided with radar screens and multifunctional terminals for meteorogical and aeronautical information (tower controller-radar controller/planner and radar controller/executive)

These emplacements could become 4 during summer, when the airport is laden with traffic. Olbia airport has also a dedicated aerial radar for the approach of the flights in arrival and departure from the land and the flying over, thanks to its integration with the Control centre radar system of Rome Ciampino. Moreover, two new rooms, that covers a surface of 270 sqm have been built. Here all the systems useful for the flights assistance (transceivers, radars, etc.)

The original terminal was active from the late sixties, following the closure of the historic airport Olbia-Venafiorita.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Air BerlinDüsseldorf, Munich
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zürich
AlitaliaSeasonal: Pisa
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna[3]
British AirwaysSeasonal: London–Heathrow[4]
Brussels AirlinesSeasonal: Brussels
easyJetMilan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[5] Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon (begins 1 July 2016),[6] Manchester (begins 13 June 2016),[7] Naples,[8] Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 2 July 2016),[9] Paris–Orly, Toulouse (begins 2 July 2016),[10] Venice-Marco Polo (begins 24 March 2016)[11]
easyJet SwitzerlandSeasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss AirSeasonal: Zürich
Etihad Regional
operated by Darwin Airline		Seasonal: Lugano, Geneva[12]
GermanwingsSeasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
Helvetic AirwaysSeasonal: Bern
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum		Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.comSeasonal: Leeds/Bradford
Jetairfly[13] Seasonal: Brussels
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Air Dolomiti 		Seasonal: Munich
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine 		Seasonal: Frankfurt
Meridiana Bologna, Milan–Linate, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Bari, Bergamo, Brescia (begins 24 July 2016),[14] Brussels, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Kiev–Boryspil, London–Gatwick, Madrid (begins 25 July 2016),[15] Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Domodedovo, Nice, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Trieste, Turin, Venice, Verona
Mistral Air Seasonal charter: Mostar
NikiSeasonal: Graz (begins 15 June 2016),[16] Salzburg, Vienna
Nordwind AirlinesSeasonal charter: Novosibirsk
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
People's Viennaline Seasonal charter: Vienna
SkyWork AirlinesSeasonal: Bern
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[17]		Seasonal: Prague
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Slovakia[17]		Seasonal: Bratislava
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva
Thomas Cook AirlinesSeasonal charter: London–Gatwick
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal: Brussels[18]
TransaviaSeasonal: Amsterdam
Transavia FranceSeasonal charter: Paris–Orly
Volotea Seasonal: Bari (begins 27 May 2016),[19] Bordeaux, Genoa, Nantes, Naples, Palermo, Strasbourg, Turin, Venice, Verona (begins 27 May 2016)[20]
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona, Florence
XL Airways France Seasonal: Lille (begins 29 April 2016)[21]
Seasonal charter: Strasbourg, Brest

References

  1. ↑ EAD Basic
  2. ↑ Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali
  3. ↑ Austrian Airlines Vienna-Olbia
  4. ↑ London-Heatrow Olbia S15 British Airways
  5. ↑ "easyJet announces six new routes from Amsterdam and strengthens its links between The Netherlands and the UK". EasyJet. 14 October 2014.
  6. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/en
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/11/04/u2-man-s16/
  8. ↑ "New and dropped routes". Easyjet.
  9. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/en
  10. ↑ http://www.easyjet.com/en
  11. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/09/u2-vce-w15/
  12. ↑ https://www.etihadregional.com/it-it/
  13. ↑ "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
  14. ↑ https://www.meridiana.it/home/index/it/
  15. ↑ https://www.meridiana.it/Home/Index/en
  16. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/01/19/hg-s16/
  17. 1 2 "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
  18. ↑ Thomas Cook Belgium begins Brussels Olbia service S14
  19. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/02/v7-s16update3/
  20. ↑ http://www.volotea.com
  21. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/01/21/se-lilolb-s16/

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