Pisa International Airport
Pisa International Airport Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa | |||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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PSA Location in Italy | |||||||||||||||
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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 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair.
Contents
1 Overview
2 Facilities
3 Airlines and destinations
3.1 Passenger
3.2 Cargo
4 Statistics
5 Accidents and incidents
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Overview
The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed on December 15, 2013 to allow construction work to begin on a new fully automatic connection known as the Pisa Mover to take passengers to Pisa Central. The Pisa Mover came into operation on March 18, 2017. 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
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
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Athens |
Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin |
Air Arabia Maroc | Casablanca (begins 1 April 2019)[citation needed] |
Albawings | Tirana |
Alitalia | Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal: Olbia |
Alsie Express | Seasonal charter: Sønderborg |
British Airways | London–Heathrow |
Czech Airlines | Seasonal: Prague |
easyJet | Berlin–Tegel, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld |
easyJet Switzerland | Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva |
Ernest Airlines | Tirana |
Eurowings | Vienna Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
Jet2.com[8] | Seasonal: Birmingham, East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Jet Time | Seasonal charter: Aalborg |
Laudamotion | Seasonal: Vienna |
Lufthansa | Munich |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki (begins 6 April 2019) [9], Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
Pobeda | Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg (ends 30 March 2019)[10] |
Qatar Airways | Doha |
Ryanair | Alghero, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin–Schönefeld, Brindisi, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Comiso, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Frankfurt, Gdańsk, Girona, Gran Canaria, Hahn (ends 30 March 2019), Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Marrakesh, Nuremberg (begins 3 April 2019), Palermo, Prague, Seville, Tenerife–South, Valencia Seasonal: Billund, Brussels (begins 1 April 2019), Cephalonia, Chania, Corfu, Crotone,[11]Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Fez, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Kalamata (begins 3 August 2019), Kos, Leeds/Bradford, Prestwick, Rhodes, Sofia, Stockholm-Skavsta, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze |
S7 Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo |
Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda |
Transavia | Amsterdam Seasonal: Rotterdam |
Turkish Airlines | Seasonal: Istanbul–Atatürk |
Volotea | Seasonal: Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse |
Vueling | Barcelona |
Wizz Air | Bucharest |
Cargo
Airlines | Destinations |
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DHL Aviation | Bergamo, Bologna, Leipzig/Halle |
FedEx Feeder | 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
- On 27 January 1952, Seaboard & Western Airlines Douglas C-54A-5-DO overshot the runway on landing. Fire consumed the aircraft. 47 out of the 50 cows carried on board the plane died.[12]
- 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 members were killed.[13]
See also
- Pisa Aeroporto railway station
Florence Airport, Peretola, the second Tuscan international airport
Marina di Campo Airport, another Tuscan airport
References
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^ Norwegian lanseeraa lennot Helsingistä Pisaan ja Tivatiin Norwegian.com (in Finnish) 18 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018
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External links
Media related to Pisa International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Toscana Aeroporti website
- News about the airport
Current weather for LIRP at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for PSA at Aviation Safety Network