Cagliari Elmas Airport
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Cagliari Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Cagliari -Elmas " Mario Mameli " ) is located a few kilometers west of Cagliari, the capital of the Italian region Sardinia, on the territory of the municipality Elmas. Of the three international airports of the island, it is the busiest.
History
The first airfield was located northeast of the city of Cagliari in Monserrato. Here is an airmail service was set up in 1919, and later a civilian flight school. However, the now disused airfield was used primarily for military purposes.
Between Cagliari in the east and the salt flats of the Gulf of Cagliari, in the south-west lies the lagoon of Santa Gilla, on whose bank is now home to Cagliari-Elmas Airport. The lagoon was the early 1920s, a military base for flying boats. 1927 made here of the pioneering aviator Francesco De Pinedo on his long-haul flight to South America station, then Italo Balbo on its formation flights.
Liner services between the mainland and Sardinia were recorded on the track Ostia Olbia- Cagliari on 21 April 1928. They were conducted by the Società Aerea Mediterranea (SAM ), which mainly started flying boats of the type Savoia Marchetti S.55 - here. The flight from Rome to Cagliari then cost 300 lire, little more than the boat service in first class. Initially, only two weekly flights were planned until the end of 1928, there were daily services. Shortly thereafter began the SAM, directly from Rome to Cagliari and continue to fly to Tunis. From 1934 to 1937 next to the dock for flying boats was an airfield for conventional land planes. In addition to various military facilities were also built a terminal building for the Ala Littoria, inaugurated on 3 May 1937. Until 1940, recorded on the line connection between Cagliari and Rome around 10,000 passengers annually. Such passenger volume was achieved otherwise only in Italy between Rome and Milan. From 1940 Cagliari -Elmas was used only militarily and 1943 completely destroyed by Allied bombers.
Between 1944 and 1946 military transport aircraft took over the connections between Cagliari and the mainland, where civilians were traveling on justified needs. The following year, 1947, the civilian scheduled flights were resumed, what in Cagliari-Elmas next to a hangar, a provisional clearance facility was built. 1949, the number of air travelers in Elmas amounted to over 30,000. The airline Airone founded by the Aero Club Cagliari Monserrato offered with their Fiat G.12 flights to Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples and Palermo, but could no longer stand against the state company Linee Aeree Italiane and the end of 1949 was finally Avio Linee Italiane taken. In the years after Alitalia and their daughters ATI and Aermediterranea were mainly active in Elmas and private companies Alisarda, Itavia and Air Sardinia. The charter and scheduled services from abroad busy itself only in the 1990s.
In 1958, inaugurated the terminal building, which immediately southeast of the state today, in 1980 replaced by a terminal with a capacity of 800,000 passengers per year. Soon, it had to be extended due to the increasing air traffic and then virtually rebuilt in place. 2003 inaugurated President Ciampi a new terminal with pier and five passenger boarding bridges. 2008, the start and runway building was renovated and therefore used the northern taxiway as a runway.
Transport links
In June 2013, a stopping point for the airport was opened to the north of the terminal running rail route Cagliari - Golfo Aranci Marittima. There usually keep all the trains running on the mentioned railway trains and S-Bahn Cagliari, resulting in daytime approximately yields a 20 -minute intervals. The journey time to central station Cagliari, located right on the harbor, is about five minutes. Oristano Iglesias and can be reached in 50 to 80 minutes. The airport terminal is connected to the tram stop point by a moving walkway.
From the airport terminal a short access road leads to the motorway-like road SS 130 and 131 that connect Cagliari with the southwest and north of Sardinia and northern by-pass SS 554 and thus to the SS 125, of which the eastern part of the island can be reached. At the airport, the best known car rental companies are represented.
Airlines and destinations
The Sardinian airline Meridiana Fly as well as the Italian airlines Alitalia and Air One connect Cagliari with numerous destinations on the Italian mainland. The German airline Airberlin has Cagliari year-round from Munich and Cologne / Bonn in the flight plan. Cagliari is since March 2009 the Irish budget airline Ryanair a stroke. The Irish lead by, among other flights to Karlsruhe -Baden -Baden, Frankfurt-Hahn Airport and Weeze. In Italy, they compete directly with Alitalia. Ryanair operated by Cagliari among others, Genoa, Bari, Treviso, Trieste and Rome Ciampino as an intra- Italian targets. During the summer months, numerous charter flights from and performed all over Europe.
Military part
On the southwest side is the military part of the airport, on the last Seefernaufklärungsflugzeuge were stationed on the type Breguet Atlantic. The military part that is to be abandoned entirely in 2015, now serves only as the advanced base. In the southeast smaller helicopter units of the Carabinieri and other security agencies are stationed.
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Other airfields in Sardinia
In addition to the airports of Cagliari, Olbia and Alghero in Sardinia, there are still civil airports in Oristano ( Fenosu ) and Tortoli ( Tortoli -Arbatax ). These are seasonal also served by Regionalffluggesellschaften.
A few kilometers northwest of the airport there is the military airfield Decimomannu, use the number of NATO air forces for training purposes, including the German Air Force ( Tactical Training Command of the Air Force Italy).