Major General James G. Blunt

Cagliari Elmas Airport (IATA: CAG, ICAO: LIEE) is an international airport located in the territory of Elmas, near Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia.

History

Check-in hall

The airport opened on 3 May 1937.[2] It was upgraded in 2003 and the terminal was expanded and provided with 6 jetbridges for passenger boarding, with a capacity of 4 million passengers per year. In 2018, the airport handled 4,370,014 passengers. It was named in 1937 after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot from the fascist-era Italian airforce shot down in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Cagliari Elmas Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta Malta
AlbaStar Seasonal: Bergamo
Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa[3]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[4]
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid (resumes 29 July 2024)[5]
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino[3]
KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines Seasonal charter: Innsbruck[6]
Neos Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa, Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,[7] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyAlps Seasonal: Bolzano
SmartwingsSeasonal: Prague
TransaviaSeasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal AirSeasonal: Prague (begins 2 June 2024)[8]
Volotea Ancona, Barcelona, Milan–Linate, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Verona
Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Florence, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse, Venice
VuelingBarcelona

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

The airport is about 7 km from Cagliari city centre. A railway station serving the airport enables connections to most Sardinian towns.

Accidents and incidents

  • On September 14, 1979, Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12, a DC-9-32 crashed in the mountains near Cagliari, Italy while approaching Cagliari-Elmas Airport. All 27 passengers and 4 crew members died in the crash and ensuing fire.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  2. ^ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
  3. ^ a b "ECCO I VOLI DELLA SUMMER 2023 A CAGLIARI" [Here's the services for Summer 23 from/to Cagliari] (PDF). sogaer.com (in Italian). 14 March 2023.
  4. ^ https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/sardinia/flights-to-sardinia [bare URL]
  5. ^ "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
  6. ^ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  8. ^ "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes".
  9. ^ "ASN Aircraft Accident description of the 14 SEP 1979 accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 I-ATJC at Sarroch". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. 21 February 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2008.

External links

Media related to Cagliari Elmas airport at Wikimedia Commons

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagliari-Elmas_Airport