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 September 18, 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
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta	Malta
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa ^[3]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick ^[4]
easyJet	Milan–Malpensa Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid ^[5]
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino ^[3]
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Innsbruck ^[6]
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair	Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa,^[7] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa,^[8] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg,^[9] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,^[10] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal Air	Seasonal: Prague ^[11]
Volotea	Ancona, Barcelona, Milan–Linate, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Verona Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Florence, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Salerno, Toulouse, Venice
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.^[12]

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1 2 "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.
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