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″N09°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

Last updated December 30, 2024

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
AeroItalia	Milan-Linate,^[3] Rome-Fiumicino ^[3]
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick ^[4]^[5]
easyJet	Milan–Malpensa Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid ^[6]
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino ^[7]
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam ^[8]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Innsbruck ^[9]
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair	Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa,^[10] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa,^[11] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 July 2025),^[12] Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg,^[13] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,^[14] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 1 July 2025)^[15]
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano ^[16]
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal Air	Seasonal: Prague ^[17]
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.^[18]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[12] "Ryanair NS25 Network Additions – 01DEC24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

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

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

[15] "SAS NS25 Intercontinental Network Update; Summer Holidays Addition". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 4 December 2024.

[16] Liu, Jim (8 April 2022). "Sky Alps NS22 Bolzano Network Expansion". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 29 December 2024.

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

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