Cagliari Elmas Airport

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Cagliari Elmas Airport

International "Mario Mameli"

Aeroporto di Cagliari
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Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorSo.G.Aer. S.p.A.
Serves Cagliari, Sardinia
Focus city for
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
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CAG
Location of the airport in Sardinia
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CAG
CAG (Italy)
Cagliari Elmas Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
14/322,8049,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers4,396,594
Passenger change 21-22Increase2.svg 59.6%
Aircraft movements37,740
Movements change 21-22Increase2.svg 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.

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History

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Check-in hall

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:

AirlinesDestinations
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, [6] Hamburg, [6] Stuttgart [6]
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid [7]
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino [8]
KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam [9]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, [10] Munich [10]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines Seasonal charter: Innsbruck [11]
Neos Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa, [12] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa, [13] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 July 2025), [14] Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg, [15] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Pescara (begins 2 June 2025), [16] Poznań, Trieste, [17] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 1 July 2025) [18]
SkyAlps Seasonal: Bolzano [19]
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague [20]
Transavia Seasonal: Paris–Orly [21]
Universal Air Seasonal: Prague [22]
Volotea Florence, Turin, Venice, Verona
Vueling Barcelona [23]

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

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