Leonardo da Vinci International Airport
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| Leonardo da Vinci International Airport | |||
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| IATA: FCO - ICAO: LIRF | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Operator | ADR | ||
| Serves | Rome | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 16 ft (5 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 07/25 | 10,856 | 3,309 | Paved |
| 16R/34L | 12,795 | 3,900 | Paved |
| 16L/34R | 12,795 | 3,900 | Paved |
Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), also known as Fiumicino International Airport, is Italy's largest airport, with over 30 million passengers in the year 2006. It was opened in stages between 1956 and 1961 and it has since undergone several expansion works. It is located in Fiumicino and serves Rome. In fact, the airport's former name was Fiumicino Airport. The airport, named after Leonardo da Vinci, is completely non-smoking. It is one of two hubs of the Italian flag carrier Alitalia along with Milan-Malpensa International Airport.
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[edit] Transit connections
Leonardo da Vinci is about 34 kilometers (21 miles) by car from Rome's historic city center, and cab rides can be expensive. Train service is available at the airport terminal. Leonardo Express trains run non-stop to Termini Station in Rome twice an hour; regional trains leave once every 15 minutes, stopping at all train stations between the airport and the city center.
[edit] Incidents and accidents
From the 1960s until the 1980s, FCO was a major base for airliner hijackings that were related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- On December 17, 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was attacked by Palestinian terrorists. 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs were thrown aboard the aircraft as it was preparing for departure.
- On December 27, 1985, Palestinian terrorists shot several people dead at this airport, see Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.
- On April 2, 1986, TWA Flight 840, which was travelling from Fiumicino to Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece was bombed, ejecting 4 people out of the plane to their deaths. The plane landed safely.
- On October 17, 1988, Uganda Airlines flight 775, enroute from London Gatwick to Rome then Entebbe, crashed short of the runway after two missed approaches. 26 of 45 aboard and all 7 crew members died.
- 7 September 2005 - Ryanair is under investigation by ANSV, the Italian air accident investigation agency, for an attempted bad weather approach into Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. During an unstabilised approach, the non-flying co-pilot had to intervene to initiate a late go-around, then the crew decided to divert to Pescara. [1]
[edit] Airlines and Terminals
[edit] Terminal A
- Air Alps (Bolzano, Brescia, Parma, Rimini)
- Air One (Albenga, Alghero, Cagliari, Catania, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Milan-Linate, Palermo, Pantelleria, Pisa, Trapani, Trieste, Turin, Venice)
- Air Vallée (Aosta)
- Alitalia (Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Trieste, Turin, Venice, Verona)
- Meridiana (Cagliari, Milan-Linate, Olbia, Verona)
[edit] Terminal AA
- Blu-express (Bari, Grenoble, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Tripoli, Vienna)
- Windjet (Catania, Palermo)
[edit] Terminal B
- Aegean Airlines (Athens)
- Air Asturias (Asturias)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Muenster, Nuremberg)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
- Air One (Istanbul-Atatürk, London-City)
- Alitalia (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Munich, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Vienna)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Clickair (Valencia)
- Condor Airlines (Munich)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf)
- Lufthansa (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Niki (Vienna)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo, Warsaw)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
- SAS (Copenhagen)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
- SkyEurope (Bratislava, Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Kraków)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
- Virgin Express (Brussels)
- Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid)
[edit] Terminal C
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- AirBaltic (Riga [starts 4 April 2007], Vilnius [Starts April 26, 2007])
- Air Canada (Montreal [starts June 1, 2007], Toronto-Pearson)
- Air China (Beijing, Shanghai-Pudong)
- Air Italy (Nairobi)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Air Moldova (Chisinau)
- Air Transat (Montreal [seasonal])
- Albanian Airlines (Tirana)
- Alitalia (Algiers, Boston [seasonal], Bucharest-Otopeni, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Cairo, Casablanca, Geneva, Istanbul-Atatürk, London-Heathrow, Luqa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Newark, Prague, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Toronto-Pearson [seasonal], Tripoli, Tunis, Warsaw)
- American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK) [seasonal; year-round service begins April 10, 2007]
- Belavia (Minsk)
- Belle Air (Tirana)
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Dhaka)
- Blue Panorama Airlines (Havana)
- BRA Transportes Aéreos (Natal)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham, Manchester)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
- China Airlines (Bangkok, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb)
- Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky [seasonal], New York-JFK)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Washington-Dulles)
- FlyLal (Vilnius) [Seasonal]
- Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Narita)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait City)
- Libyan Arab Airlines (Benghazi, Tripoli)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- Montenegro Airlines (Podgorica)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit) seasonal
- Pakistan International Airlines (Lahore)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Damascus)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- United Airlines (Washington-Dulles) [starts April 2, 2007]
- US Airways (Philadelphia)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
- Yemenia (Sanaa)
[edit] Ground Handling
Ground handling services have been provided by Aeroporti di Roma up to 1999 when it created Aeroporti di Roma Handling (to serve all airlines apart from Alitalia which continued being handled by Aeroporti di Roma itself). Alitalia provided passenger assistance even before 1999. In 2001 Alitalia created Alitalia Airport and started providing self-handling and third party handling. Air One created EAS and started providing third-party services too. Aeroporti di Roma Handling remains the biggest handler in terms of airlines handled but Alitalia Airport is the biggest handler in terms of airplanes handled as Alitalia aircraft account for 50% of the ones in Fiumicino. There are some private handlers that provide passenger assistance alone: ARE Group, Globeground Italia and ICTS Italia. On the 2nd of May 2006 Meridiana's passenger handling staff transferred to Alitalia Airport and the ramp will transfer to Alitalia Airport in February 2007 (from Aeroporti di Roma Handling). The ground handling deregulation has brought confusion on who does what and has decreased service levels especially on transferring baggage.
In May 2006 Italy's Civil Aviation Authority announced that it took off the limitation of 3 ramp handlers in Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport. ARE Group and Aviapartner announced that they would create a company called Aviapartner (51% Aviapartner; 49% ARE Group) to serve Milan Malpensa and Rome Leonardo da Vinci. There are fears that luggage mishandling will go up.
In November 2006 Aeroporti di Roma Handling was sold to Flightcare (itself owned by Spanish company FCC), an Aviance member.
[edit] Security Services
Security Services transferred from the Polizia di Stato to Aeroporti di Roma in 2000. Aeroporti di Roma created Airport Security (100% owned) to provide these services as well as security services to airlines (in competition with other security companies such as IVRI). Airport Security is supervised by Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Police), Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority) and Aeroporti di Roma.
[edit] Ground Transportation
Leonardo Da Vinci airport is served by the Leonardo Express train operated by Trenitalia. The trip takes 30 minutes on the express line (no stops) to Roma Termini station and 40 minutes on the Local (1 stop at Trastevere, close to the Vatican). The airport is served by numerous buses and taxis. Avoid unmetered cabs as they are often dishonest. Cabs are colored white.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Flight International 12-18 December 2006
