Cagliari Elmas Airport

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″N09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E / 39.2514694; 9.0542833
Website	Official website
Map
CAG Location of the airport in Sardinia Show map of Sardinia CAG CAG (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 4,396,594 Passenger change 21-22 59.6% Aircraft movements 37,740 Movements change 21-22 33.4%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [1]

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 named in 1937 after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot from the fascist-era Italian airforce shot down in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The airport 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.

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
AeroItalia	Milan–Linate, [3] Rome–Fiumicino [3] Seasonal: Catania [4]
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle [5]
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna [6]
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick [7]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, [8] Milan–Malpensa [9] Seasonal: Geneva, [10] Lyon, [11] Naples, [12] Paris–Orly [10]
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich [13]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, [14] Hamburg, [14] Stuttgart [14]
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid [15]
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino [16]
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam [17]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, [18] Munich [18]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg [19]
Marathon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Innsbruck [20]
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna, [10] Milan–Malpensa, [10] Verona [10]
Ryanair	Bari, [10] Beauvais, [10] Bergamo, [10] Bologna, [10] Budapest, [10] Catania, [10] Charleroi, [10] Cuneo, [10] Genoa, [21] Kraków, [10] London–Stansted, [22] Malta, [10] Milan–Malpensa, [23] Naples, [10] Nuremberg, Palermo, [10] Parma, [10] Pisa, [10] Porto, [10] Rimini, [10] Rome–Ciampino, [10] Seville, [10] Stockholm–Arlanda, [24] Turin, [10] Valencia, [10] Venice, [10] Verona [10] Seasonal: Carcassonne, [10] Dublin, [10] Gothenburg, [25] Hahn, [10] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, [10] Madrid, [10] Palma de Mallorca, [10] Perugia, [10] Pescara, [26] Poznań, [10] Trieste, [27] Vienna, [10] Weeze [10]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen [28]
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano [29]
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague [30]
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly [31]
Volotea	Florence, [32] Venice, [32] Verona
Vueling	Barcelona [33]

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. ^[34]

References

1. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
2. Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
3. Liu, Jim (18 September 2024). "Aeroitalia NW24 Network Additions". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
4. Liu, Jim. "Aeroitalia Adds Cagliari – Catania Seasonal Service in NS25". aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
5. "Paris, France". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 827–841. August 2023. ISSN   1466-8718.
6. "Vienna, Austria". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1117–1123. August 2023. ISSN   1466-8718.
7. "British Airways - Information Page".
8. "easyJet offre molti sviluppi". Italiavola.com (in Italian). 11 June 2025.
9. Liu, Jim (4 July 2022). "easyJet July 2022 Italy / Spain Operation Update - 03JUL22". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
10. "Cagliari, Italy". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 185–186. August 2023. ISSN   1466-8718.
11. Liu, Jim (30 March 2023). "easyJet NS23 Network Changes – 30MAR23". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
12. Liu, Jim (4 July 2022). "easyJet July 2022 Italy / Spain Operation Update - 03JUL22". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
13. "Zurich, Switzerland". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 1178–1184. August 2023. ISSN   1466-8718.
14. Liu, Jim (14 February 2023). "Eurowings NS23 Network Update – 12FEB23". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
15. "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
16. "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.
17. "KLM August 2022 Intra-European Frequency Adjustment - 10JUL22". Aeroroutes.
18. Liu, Jim (22 January 2024). "Lufthansa / Air Dolomiti NS24 European Network/Frequency Changes – 21JAN24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
19. "Luxembourg, Luxembourg". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 25 (2). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 616–617. August 2023. ISSN   1466-8718.
20. "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
21. "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
22. Liu, Jim (22 September 2022). "Ryanair NW22 London Stansted A320 Network Additions". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
23. "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
24. "Ryanair NS25 Network Additions – 01DEC24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
25. "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
26. "Ryanair investe su Pescara. 5 nuove rotte" [Ryanair invests on Pescara: 5 new routes]. Italiavola.com (in Italian). 14 January 2025.
27. "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
28. "SAS NS25 Intercontinental Network Update; Summer Holidays Addition". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
29. Liu, Jim (8 April 2022). "Sky Alps NS22 Bolzano Network Expansion". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
30. Liu, Jim (30 December 2024). "Smartwings NS25 A220 Network Overview – 29DEC24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
31. Liu, Jim (27 April 2023). "Transavia France NS23 Leased Amelia A320 Operations – 25APR23". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
32. "Cagliari, Italy CAG". OAG Flight Guide Worldwide. 26 (11). Luton, United Kingdom: OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited: 196–197. May 2025. ISSN   1466-8718.
33. Liu, Jim (31 October 2024). "Vueling NW24 Frequency Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
34. "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

• Official website
• Accident history for CAG at Aviation Safety Network