Cagliari Elmas Airport

Cagliari Elmas Airport

International "Mario Mameli"

Aeroporto di Cagliari
Cagliari Elmas Airport; International "Mario Mameli"; Aeroporto di Cagliari
	IATA: CAG; ICAO: LIEE;
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Operator	So.G.Aer. S.p.A.
Serves	Cagliari, Sardinia
Focus city for	Ryanair; Volotea;
Elevation AMSL	13 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E
Website	Official website
Map
	CAG Location of the airport in Sardinia CAG CAG (Italy)
Runways
Statistics (2022)
Passengers
Passengers	4,396,594
Passenger change 21-22	59.6%
Aircraft movements	37,740
Movements change 21-22	33.4%
	Statistics from Assaeroporti

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

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:

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick^[3]^[4]
easyJet	Milan–Malpensa Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid^[5]
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino^[6]
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam^[7]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Innsbruck^[8]
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair	Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa,^[9] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa,^[10] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg,^[11] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,^[12] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal Air	Seasonal: Prague^[13]
Volotea	Florence, Turin, Venice, Verona
Vueling	Barcelona

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

The airport is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) 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.^[14]

References

^ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
^ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
^ https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/sardinia/flights-to-sardinia ^{[bare URL]}
^ "BA EuroFlyer April 2023 Network". Aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
^ "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
^ "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.
^ "KLM August 2022 Intra-European Frequency Adjustment - 10JUL22". Aeroroutes.
^ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
^ "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
^ "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
^ "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
^ "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes". 16 April 2024.
^ "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

[Assaeroporti-1] "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.

[2] Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.

[3] ttps://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/sardinia/flights-to-sardinia ^{[bare URL]}

[4] "BA EuroFlyer April 2023 Network". Aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.

[5] "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.

[auto-6] "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.

[7] "KLM August 2022 Intra-European Frequency Adjustment - 10JUL22". Aeroroutes.

[8] "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.

[9] "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.

[10] "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.

[11] "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.

[12] "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".

[13] "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes". 16 April 2024.

[ASN_ATI_12-14] "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.

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