Lamezia Terme International Airport

Lamezia Terme
International Airport
Aeroporto Internazionale
di Lamezia Terme

IATA: SUF – ICAO: LICA

SUF

Location of airport in Italy

Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Sacal S.p.A.
Serves Lamezia Terme
Location Lamezia Terme, Italy
Elevation AMSL 39 ft / 12 m
Coordinates 38°54′19″N 16°14′32″E / 38.90528°N 16.24222°E / 38.90528; 16.24222
Website www.sacal.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
10/28 7,920 2,414 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 2,342,406
Passenger change 14–15 Decrease -2.8%
Aircraft movements 21,524
Movements change 14–15 Decrease -5.9%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

Lamezia Terme International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale di Lamezia Terme "Sant'Eufemia") (IATA: SUF, ICAO: LICA) is an airport in the Sant'Eufemia district of Lamezia Terme, Calabria, Italy. It is the principal airport of Calabria. Additionally, a military helicopter unit, the 2° Reggimento dell'Aria "Sirio", is based near the airport.

History

In 1965 a consortium, CONSAER, was formed to build a new airport near the motorway, the railway and the port of Gioia Tauro; level ground near Lamezia Terme was chosen as the site. The airport opened in June 1976. Its IATA airport code SUF derives from the name Sant'Eufemia. Itavia began scheduled flights to Rome-Fiumicino, Milan-Linate, Catania and Palermo in December of that year. The airport was expanded and modernised in 1982.

Since 1990 it has been managed by SACAL SpA, which is jointly owned by various local government administrations and by private investors.

A contract to extend the runway from the current 2414 metres to 3000 m was awarded on 27 December 2007. A design competition for a new passenger terminal to replace the present building was held in November 2008, and was won by Engco.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Berlin Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Zürich
Air Transat Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
AlitaliaMilan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Turin[2]
Alitalia
operated by Alitalia CityLiner		Milan–Linate
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Blue Air Turin
easyJetMilan–Malpensa
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Germanwings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Stuttgart
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Zürich
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
LufthansaSeasonal: Munich
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg
NikiSeasonal charter: Innsbruck[3]
Primera AirSeasonal: Malmö, Stockholm–Arlanda[4]
RyanairBergamo, Bologna, Charleroi, Hahn, London–Stansted, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Treviso
Seasonal: Weeze
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius[5]
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[6]		Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Prague
Sun d'Or International Airlines
operated by El Al 		Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Swiss Global Air Lines 		Seasonal: Geneva (begins 2 July 2016)[7]

References

  1. ↑ Assaeroporti
  2. ↑ https://www.alitalia.com/en_it/
  3. ↑ Niki begin seasonal charter service to Innsburck from May 2015
  4. ↑ Lamezia Terme timetable
  5. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2014/12/05/w2-vnosuf-sep15/
  6. ↑ "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/12/29/lx-gvasuf-jul16/

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