Ciampino Airport

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Ciampino Airport
IATA: CIA - ICAO: LIRA
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Serves		Rome
Elevation AMSL		427 ft (130 m)
Coordinates		41°47′57.70″N, 12°35′41.77″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
15/33	7,242	2,207	Asphalt

Ciampino Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Roma-Ciampino) or Giovan Battista Pastine Airport (IATA: CIA, ICAO: LIRA) is a joint civilian, commercial and military airport near Rome in Italy. The airport is situated 15 km south-west Rome downtown, just outside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare) the circular motorway around the city. Until 1960 Ciampino was the main airport of Rome, before the construction of the Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino.

Ciampino is quite small, due to the short distance from the city suburbs, but is one of the busiest airports in Italy. The total passenger traffic in 2006 rose to 4,945,158 (16,75% more than 2005). There are plans to extend the total area of the terminals.

[edit] Ground Transportation

COTRAL/Schiaffini [1] operates buses from outside the terminal building to Anagnina metro station, costing €1. A metro ticket to central Rome costs another €1.

They also offer buses for the same price to Ciampino local train station, from where a train to Rome Termini station costs €2. Train tickets must be bought from a newsagent and stamped before boarding the train. Both bus routes operate roughly every hour or 30 minutes during the Italian work day (8-12 and 16-20), and you should count on at least 45 minutes travel time for either route. The metro can get very crowded.

Schiaffini [2] also runs direct buses to Termini station for €5 one-way, taking 40 minutes, but with far fewer departures than Terravision (see below). These buses are not mentioned on the airport website yet, but you can find them on Schiaffini's own site.

Terravision [3] runs a direct bus service to Termini. The price is €8 one-way or €13.50 return, taking 40 minutes (about 20 services a day). Despite timing buses to connect with flights, they ask passengers on the return trip from Termini to board the bus 2.5 hours before their flight's departure time. Terravision also offers buses from Fiumicino airport to Termini, and a transfer bus between the two airports.

BusShuttle [4] runs a similar service to Terravision. Their stop near Termini is about 20 metres up the road from Terravision's. Cost is €6 for a single.

The fixed fare for a taxi ride to the city centre (inside the Aurelian Walls) is €30, according to the official agreement between Roman taxi driver associations and Rome municipality. It is advisable to negotiate the total price including luggage supplements before boarding the taxi!

Rental cars are available in the airport terminal from all the usual companies.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Blue Air (Bucharest-Băneasa, Bacău)
Centralwings (Lodz, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw)
easyJet (Basel/Mullhouse, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Dortmund, East Midlands, Geneva, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Newcastle, Paris-Orly)
Lviv Airlines (Lviv)
MyAir (Bucharest-Baneasa, Sofia)
Ryanair (Alghero, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Karlsruhe Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, London-Luton, Madrid, Milan-Orio al Serio, Paris-Beauvais, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Treviso, Valencia, Verona, Weeze, Zaragoza)
Sterling (Billund, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
TUIfly (Hanover)
Wizz Air (Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Katowice, Târgu Mureş)