"station of Santa Maria delle Mole. Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport Rome—Ciampino International Airport ""G. B. Pastine"" () , is the secondary international airport of Rome, the capital of Italy, after Rome-Fiumicino Airport ""Leonardo da Vinci"". It is a joint civilian, commercial and military airport situated south southeast of central Rome, just outside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: ""Grande Raccordo Anulare"" or ""GRA"") the circular motorway around the city. The airport is an important hub for many low-cost carriers and general aviation traffic. It also hosts a military airport and the headquarters of the 31º Stormo and the 2nd Reparto"
"Rome Urbe Airport Rome Urbe Airport (, ) is a small civilian airport in Rome, situated in the northern part of the city, between Via Salaria and the Tiber River, about 2.7 NM (5 km, 3.1 mi) inside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA), the circular motorway around the city. The airport was inaugurated in Benito Mussolini's presence in 1928, with the name ""Lictor Airport"" (the name was chosen by Mussolini himself). Until the World War II it was the main civilian airport in Italy, and the base for the Italian national airline Ala Littoria. Inside"
"Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport Rome–Fiumicino International Airport ""Leonardo da Vinci"" () , is an international airport in Rome and the major airport in Italy. It is one of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic with 41.7 million passengers served in 2016. It is located in Fiumicino, west of Rome's historic city centre. The airport serves as the main hub for Alitalia, the largest Italian airline and Vueling, a Spanish low-cost carrier owned by International Airlines Group. Based on total passenger numbers, it is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe and was the world's 47th-busiest airport in 2017. It covers"
"the event The Rome Urbe Airport can be reached with public transport by bus or by train: the Nuovo Salario Station (FR1 line) is 400 m from the airport. Rome Urbe Airport Rome Urbe Airport (, ) is a small civilian airport in Rome, situated in the northern part of the city, between Via Salaria and the Tiber River, about 2.7 NM (5 km, 3.1 mi) inside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA), the circular motorway around the city. The airport was inaugurated in Benito Mussolini's presence in 1928, with the name ""Lictor Airport"" (the name"
"Forlì Airport Forlì International Airport , also known as Luigi Ridolfi Airport (), is an airport in Forlì, a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It serves Emilia-Romagna, eastern Tuscany, specifically the metropolitan Bologna and Rimini Riviera areas. It is named for the Italian aviator . Since June 2015, it is operated by Air Romagna S.p.A., a public joint stock company registered in Forlì, Italy. Since Air Romagna S.p.A. has taken responsibility for the airport, the new focus is to promote advances in aviation business models, responsibly manage the carbon footprint, examine and share new ways to work"
"Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair offer flights to leisure destinations."
"Fiumicino Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 77,870 (2015). It is famous for the presence of the Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the sixth busiest in Europe. The name literally means ""little river"". The town of ""Fiumicino"" should not be confused with its namesake, Fiumicino, a small river near Rimini. Fiumicino became a ""comune"" in 1992; previously it was part of the municipality of Rome, being almost totally included in the former Municipio XIV. On 24 August 2013, a small mud"
"Air Force war-hero Tito Minniti, who was born in Reggio Calabria. Its IATA airport code REG is derived from Reggio, Calabria's main city, which the airport is closest to. On the outskirts of the airport the training grounds of local football club Reggina Calcio are located. In March 2017, Alitalia announced to terminate all 56 weekly flights to and from the airport (to Milan, Rome and Turin) stating all routes were heavily loss-making. However, this decision was revoked shortly after. In summer 2017 Sacal S.p.A. (Società aeroportuale calabrese), also managing Lamezia Terme took over the management of the airport. Number"
"direct from the airport. Other airports in Sicily: Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as"
"Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport () , also named Galileo Galilei Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed"
"is served by a six-lane motorway and numerous buses and taxis. 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 Palestinians as part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. <br> Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport Rome–Fiumicino International Airport ""Leonardo da Vinci"" () , is an international airport in Rome and the major airport in Italy. It is one of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic with 41.7 million passengers served in 2016. It is"
"Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (, ), formerly “Campo dell’Oro Airport”, is the main airport serving Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica. It is located in Ajaccio, a ""commune"" of the ""département"" of Southern Corsica, east of the harbour. The airport is the main base of regional airline Air Corsica, which operates services to Metropolitan France. It is named for Napoleon Bonaparte, who was born in Ajaccio. Campo dell’Oro, before aviation, was an alluvial plain at the mouth of the Gravona. The meaning of “Field of Gold” remains obscure; some 19th century authors refer to a"
"the perimeter also a racetrack was constructed, named Autodromo del Littorio (""Lictor Racetrack""). In 1931 a car/plane challenge took place on the racetrack inside the airport: Vittorio Suster, piloting a Caproni Ca.100, defeated Tazio Nuvolari, who drove an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300. Heavily damaged by bombardments during the war, the airport was reactivated with the current name in the first postwar years. But just a few years later the commercial activity was transferred to the Ciampino Airport: since that moment the Rome Urbe Airport turned mostly into a facility for flying club activity, touristic flights and air taxi. It is"
"Federico Fellini International Airport Federico Fellini International Airport (; ), formerly ""Rimini Miramare Airport"", is an airport located at ""Miramare"", southeast of Rimini, Italy, and away from City of San Marino, Republic of San Marino. The airport is named after Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. Since 2015, Rimini Airport is managed by AIRiminum 2014 S.p.A. The airport provide scheduled flights to Moscow and Tirana all year round and a great number of seasonal or charter flights to a lot of destinations outside Italy. From March 2018 Ryanair resumed operations at Rimini airport, after six years of absence, providing connections to London,"
"Alitalia Alitalia – Società Aerea Italiana (""Alitalia – Italian Air Company""), operating as Alitalia (), is the flag carrier of Italy. The company has its head office in Fiumicino, Rome, Italy. Its main hub is Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, Rome, and a secondary is Linate Airport, Milan. Other focus airports are Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, Milan-Malpensa Airport, Palermo Airport and Naples Airport. In 2018, it was the twelfth-largest airline in Europe. The name ""Alitalia"" is an Italian portmanteau of the words ""ali"" (wings), and ""Italia"" (Italy). On 2 May 2017, the airline went into administration after the Italian government formally approved the"
"the move to the new site, the services increased to every weekday. As there was no terminal facilities on the site, from the 1960s ground handling, check-in and bookings were conducted out of the back of a Ford Falcon utility by local man Alan Berry. On 27 April 1996 the mayor of Roma opened a new terminal facility, named the AT Berry Terminal in honour of Mr. Berry's dedication to aviation in the town. The airport and terminal facilities were extensively upgraded in 2012, with the construction of a new terminal (also named the AT Berry Terminal) and enlarged apron."
"Brescia Airport Brescia ""Gabriele D'Annunzio"" Airport (, ), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca. The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France. The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel ""Forse che sì forse che no"" (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod"
"Ciampino Ciampino is a city and ""comune"" in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It was a ""frazione"" of Marino until 1974, when it became a ""comune""; it obtained the city () status (being therefore officially known as Città di Ciampino) in 2004 by a presidential decree. It is best known for the local ""Giovan Battista Pastine"" International Airport, best known as ""Rome Ciampino"", a military airport which also hosts several civil flights, especially from low-cost companies such as Ryanair. The city is named after Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, a religious, scientist and archaeologist who lived here in the 17th"
"Rome State Airport Rome State Airport is a public use airport located 20 nautical miles (23 mi, 37 km) southwest of the central business district of Rome, in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It is owned by the Oregon Department of Aviation. The airport was built by the United States Army Air Forces about 1942, and was known as Rome Flight Strip. It was an emergency landing airfield for military aircraft on training flights. It was closed after World War II, and was turned over for local government use by the War Assets Administration (WAA). Rome State Airport covers an"
"its original name ""Military Airport Orazio Pierozzi"", named in memory of an Italian airman of the First World War. The airport is officially named after Antonio Papola, in memory of the Italian aviator died on February 13, 1948 in an air accident who had a special bond with the city. It is also officially known as ""Casale"" with reference to the contiguous neighborhood in Brindisi with the same name and also as ""Salento Airport"" with reference to the geographic region where it is located. The strategic position of the airport in the Mediterranean region, along with its multi-modal connections with"
"km south of the new Rhodes International Airport. The airport was built in 1938 during the Italian occupation of the Dodecanese as a base for the Regia Aeronautica and was called Aeroporto di Martisa ""G.Pessi Parvis"" and its Italian airport code was 801. Giorgio Pessi Tenente Giorgio Pessi (alias Giuliano Parvis) was a World War I flying ace born in Austro-Hungary who chose to fly for Italy. He was credited with six aerial victories. Giorgio Pessi was born on 17 November 1891 in Trieste, when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He attended the local technical high school before"
"Turin Airport Turin Airport () , also known as Turin-Caselle Airport (""Aeroporto di Torino-Caselle""), is an airport located at Caselle Torinese, north-northwest of the city of Turin, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region, northern Italy. It is also named Sandro Pertini Airport (""Aeroporto Sandro Pertini""), after former Italian President Sandro Pertini. The airport was built in 1953, on the site of a World War II air base, and was renovated in 1989 for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and then again in 2005 in preparation for the Winter Olympics. Turin airport won the ""ACI Europe Best Airport Awards"""
"Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport () is an airport serving the city of Bari in Italy. It is approximately northwest from the town centre. Named after Pope John Paul II, who was born Karol Wojtyła, the airport is also known as Palese Airport () after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 3,958,815 passengers in 2015. The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s by the Regia Aeronautica. During the World War II Italian Campaign it was seized by the British Eighth Army in late September 1943 and turned into an Allied military"
"Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport () is an international airport serving the city of Bologna in Italy. It is approximately northwest of the city center in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate. With 7,680,992 passengers handled in 2016, it was the seventh-busiest airport in Italy that year. There is one terminal, which underwent an expansion during 2011-2013. It now covers a total surface 36,100m, of which 5,500m are shopping areas. A new baggage handling system was installed and there are now 24"
"of 46 when a new experimental plane he was testing crashed at Guidonia Montecelio. Ferrarin's military funeral was held in Rome followed by burial in the cemetery of Induno Olona in the Province of Varese, the home of Adelaide Castiglioni's family. In 1970, the 50th anniversary of Ferrarin's Rome-Tokyo flight, the new airport in Thiene was named in his honor and inaugurated in a ceremony attended by officials from the Italian Air Force, the Ministry of Transport and Aviation, and the Japanese Embassy as well as Ferrarin's widow and his two sons Carlo and Roberto. Other entities named in Ferrarin's"
"older Rome Ciampino Airport is a joint civilian and military airport. It is commonly referred to as ""Ciampino Airport"", as it is located beside Ciampino, south-east of Rome. A third airport, the Roma-Urbe Airport, is a small, low-traffic airport located about north of the city centre, which handles most helicopter and private flights. Although the city has its own quarter on the Mediterranean Sea (Lido di Ostia), this has only a marina and a small channel-harbour for fisher boats. The main harbour which serves Rome is Port of Civitavecchia, located about northwest of the city. A 3-line metro system called"
"recently upgraded the airport complex. The airport is also the manufacturing base for Piaggio Aerospace, an Italian aircraft design and production company. In 2017, with 1,249,374 passengers having passed through the airport, Genoa remained as the 23rd busiest Italian airport by passenger traffic. The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea operates one of its four bases in Italy in Genoa Airport. The airport is named after the notable Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus. Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport Genoa Airport () also named Christopher Columbus Airport (""Aeroporto Cristoforo Colombo"" in Italian) (), and commonly named ""Aeroporto di Genova-Sestri Ponente"" (Genoa-Sestri Ponente Airport,"
"by Nino Rota during the funeral ceremony. Five months later, on 23 March 1994, Fellini's widow, actress Giulietta Masina died of lung cancer. Fellini, Masina and their son, Pierfederico, are buried in a bronze sepulchre sculpted by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Designed as a ship's prow, the tomb is located at the main entrance to the Cemetery of Rimini. The Federico Fellini Airport in Rimini is named in his honour. Fellini was raised in a Roman Catholic family and considered himself a Catholic. As an adult, however, he avoided formal activity in the Catholic Church. Films by Fellini included Catholic themes; some"
"Depot (UNHRD). On behalf of governments, other UN agencies and NGOs, from UNHRD Brindisi humanitarian aid is directed to the most remote and devastated regions around the world. Brindisi Airport Brindisi Airport (), also known as ""Brindisi Papola Casale Airport"" and ""Salento Airport"", is an airport in Brindisi, in southern Italy, located from the city center. This airport was originally established as a military airbase in the 1920s. The first commercial flights serving Rome began in the 1930s with the establishment of the Ala Littoria in 1934. After World War II, Alitalia took over the route and added a flight"
"achievements also led the Italian military to name the Italian Air Forces largest base, Pratica di Mare Air Force Base, located southwest of Rome, after him as """"Colonello"" Mario de Bernardi"" in 1959. In March 2006, a plaque honoring de Bernardi was placed at Via Panama 86 - his home from 1939 to 1959 - in Rome as his daughter Fiorenza looked on. Mario de Bernardi Mario de Bernardi (1893–1959) was an Italian World War I fighter pilot, seaplane air racer of the 1920s, and test pilot of early Italian experimental jets. De Bernardi was born on July 1, 1893,"
"non-directional beacon designated VIB, but its IATA Airport Code has not yet been determined, though VTB has been proposed. Rome Viterbo Airport Rome Viterbo Airport (Italian: ""Aeroporto di Roma-Viterbo"" is a proposed re-use of Viterbo Air Force Base, a civilian, commercial and military airport about 80 kilometers north of Rome, Italy. Originally opened as a military airport in 1936, the airfield was dedicated to Tommaso Fabbri and is situated 3 km northwest of the town of Viterbo in the Lazio region. On November 26, 2007, Italian transport minister Alessandro Bianchi announced that Viterbo had been chosen by the Italian Ministry"
"Brindisi Airport Brindisi Airport (), also known as ""Brindisi Papola Casale Airport"" and ""Salento Airport"", is an airport in Brindisi, in southern Italy, located from the city center. This airport was originally established as a military airbase in the 1920s. The first commercial flights serving Rome began in the 1930s with the establishment of the Ala Littoria in 1934. After World War II, Alitalia took over the route and added a flight to Catania. As of 2008 it has officially changed its legal status into civilian airport, still maintaining operational the military facilities attached to it. These are identified with"
"model of the route to the benefit of the air carrier and the passenger. The new system is based upon work accomplished by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) utilized as far back as the SABRE system developed for American Airlines in 1957. Forlì International Airport accommodates General Aviation from international sources, charter traffic from Scandinavian sources, and offers point to point transit and flights to hub airports. Forlì International Airport was originally Luigi Ridolfi Airport, and dedicated by Benito Mussolini prior to WWII. Mussolini was born in the nearby town of Predappio. In March 29, 2013 the airport was closed"