Pisa International Airport

Pisa International Airport
Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa
IATA: PSA – ICAO: LIRP
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Aeronautica Militare Italiana / Toscana Aeroporti 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°E / 43.68389; 10.39250Coordinates: 43°41′02″N 010°23′33″E / 43.68389°N 10.39250°E / 43.68389; 10.39250
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 (2015)
Passengers 4,804,774
Passenger change 14-15 Increase +2,6%
Aircraft movements 39,515
Movements change 14–15 Increase +1.7%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Pisa International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa) (IATA: PSA, ICAO: LIRP), also named Galileo Galilei Airport[3] is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers.[4] 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 4,804,774 passengers in 2015. It serves as a focus city of 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. The airport has 5 passenger and 1 coach parking areas.[5]

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.[6] 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

Aerial view

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).[7]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Air Cairo Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh
Alitalia
operated by Darwin Airline		 Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Olbia
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines		 Tirana
Seasonal charter: Rhodes
British Airways London-Heathrow
Seasonal: London-Gatwick
easyJet Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Hamburg, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Paris-Orly
Seasonal: London-Luton
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Eurowings Vienna
Seasonal: Hamburg, Stuttgart (begins 26 March 2017)[8]
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings		 Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Jet2.com Seasonal: East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jet Time Seasonal charter: Aalborg
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Air Dolomiti		 Munich
Mistral Air Tirana
Neos Seasonal: Ibiza
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Qatar Airways Doha
Ryanair[9] Alghero, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brindisi, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Comiso, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Marrakesh, Palermo, Seville, Sofia, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Valencia
Seasonal: Billund, Cephalonia, Chania, Corfu, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Fez, Gdansk, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Kos, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Prestwick, Rhodes, Stockholm-Skavsta, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 26 April 2017)[10]
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Haugesund
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Silver Air Elba
Transavia Amsterdam
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk (resumes 26 March 2017)[11]
VoloteaSeasonal: Bordeaux, Nantes, Palma de Mallorca
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bucharest

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation
operated by EAT Leipzig		 Leipzig/Halle, Malta
FedEx Feeder
operated by ASL Airlines Ireland		 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[6]

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

External links

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