Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

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Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorGeasar S.p.A.
Serves Olbia
Location Olbia, Italy
Elevation  AMSL 37 ft / 11 m
Coordinates 40°53′09″N09°31′01″E / 40.88583°N 9.51694°E / 40.88583; 9.51694
Website geasar.it
Map
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OLB
Location of airport in Sardinia
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OLB
OLB (Italy)
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
05/232,7459,006Concrete / asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers3,167,368
Passenger change 21-22Increase2.svg 52.2%
Aircraft movements40,125
Movements change 21-22Increase2.svg 23.2%
Cargo (tons)734
Cargo change 21-22Increase2.svg 391.6%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL [1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti [2]

Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda) ( IATA : OLB, ICAO : LIEO) is an airport in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. It was the primary operating base for Italian airline Air Italy whose headquarters were located at the airport. It mostly handles seasonal holiday flights from destinations in Europe and is managed by Geasar S.p.A.

Contents

History

Terminal building and control tower Aeroporto Olbia Costa Smeralda Outside.jpg
Terminal building and control tower
Departure gate area before refurbishment in 2020 Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport.jpg
Departure gate area before refurbishment in 2020
General aviation apron Olbia Airport during high season.jpeg
General aviation apron

A military airfield was opened at Olbia (then Terranova Pausania) in 1921, and a seaplane base was inaugurated close to the Isola Bianca harbour in 1927, although poor loads from the island on the flights to Ostia and Cagliari led to the service's stop in Terranova being discontinued in 1929.[ citation needed ] The airfield and seaplane base were targeted by Allied bombing in World War II, and the Germans opened another airfield 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) west of the town, which was renamed Olbia in 1945.[ citation needed ]

Commercial flights gradually returned, and in 1963, the Olbia-based airline Alisarda was formed. It successfully expanded its route network, introducing jet flights in 1972, and it was renamed Meridiana in 1991.[ citation needed ] However, the introduction of jet aircraft necessitated the building of a larger airport nearer the city; the current airport was completed in 1974.[ citation needed ]

Following three years of work, a new terminal covering 42,000 square metres and capable of handling 4.5 million passengers per year, was unveiled on 6 June 2004. Costing a total of €81 million, the structure was designed by Willem Brouwer Architects and incorporated the original terminal building, which was developed into a 3000-square metre retail area.[ citation needed ] The new building has 40 check-in desks and ten boarding gates, five of which are equipped with jet bridges. It contains a wide variety of shops and restaurants, a wine bar, a small art gallery, and indoor garden areas featuring local flora.

The airport also is home to the Tourist Management department of the University of Sassari.

From 3 February to 14 March 2020, the airport closed to passenger air traffic for the refurbishment and extension of the taxiways and runway. During this period, all flights arriving and departing were cancelled. [3] The airport building remained in this period open to events of various kinds. The airport, which was initially scheduled to reopen on March 14, 2020, remained closed until June 2, as a result of the measures taken by the Italian authorities due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[ citation needed ] The airport reopened on June 3.[ citation needed ]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Olbia: [4] [5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens [6]
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
AeroItalia Milan–Linate, [7] Rome–Fiumicino [7]
Seasonal: Perugia [8]
Air Corsica Seasonal: Figari (begins 6 June 2025) [9]
Air Dolomiti Seasonal: Munich [10]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle [11]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Alpavia Seasonal: Parma [12] [13]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: Edinburgh, [14] London–City (begins 25 May 2025), [15] London–Heathrow [16]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Bulgaria Air Seasonal charter: Sofia [17]
Condor Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Edinburgh (begins 1 May 2025), [18] Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Turin, Venice, Zürich (begins 23 June 2025) [18]
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, [19] Düsseldorf, [20] Hamburg, [21] Hannover, [22] Salzburg, Stuttgart [23]
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International
GoTo Fly Seasonal: Forlì [24]
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid [25]
ITA Airways Seasonal: Trieste
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, London–Stansted, Manchester
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, [26] Munich [26]
Neos Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair [27] Bologna, Bergamo, Trieste
Seasonal: Beauvais, Charleroi, Copenhagen, [28] Dublin, Kraków, London–Stansted, Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen [29]
SkyAlps Seasonal: Bern, Bolzano [30]
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague [31]
Seasonal charter: Bratislava [32]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam, [33] Paris–Orly [34]
TUI Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick, [35] Manchester [36]
Volotea Bologna, Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino, [7] Turin, Verona
Seasonal: Ancona, Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brest, [37] Catania, Deauville, Florence, Genoa, Lille, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Paris–Orly, Pisa, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Trieste, Valencia, Venice
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona [38]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Ciampino, Warsaw–Chopin

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at OLB airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

By car

The airport is connected to local motorways SS125 and SS729.

By bus

The following bus services operate to/from the airport.

Local buses

Local operator ASPO Olbia operates two routes to/from the airport:

  • 2 Airport-Sa Minda Noa
  • 10 Airport-Town Centre-Airport

Regional and long distance buses

  • 514 Olbia-Olbia Airport-Siniscola-Nuoro
  • 601 Santa Teresa di Gallura-Palau-Arzachena-San Pantaleo-Olbia-Olbia Airport
  • Cala Gonone-Dorgali-Orosei-La Caletta-Olbia Airport
  • Nuoro-Siniscola-Budoni-San Teodoro-Olbia Airport
  • 20 Olbia Airport-Olbia-Porto Cervo-Baja Sardinia-Hotel Stelle Marine (Costa Smeralda Shuttle)
  • 30 Olbia Airport-Olbia-Calangius-Castelsardo-Porto Torres
  • 90 Alghero-Alghero Fertilia Airport-Sassari-Olbia Airport-Olbia
  • Olbia Airport-Olbia-Arzachena-Palau-Santa Teresa di Gallura
  • Olbia-Telti
  • Cagliari-Oristano-Abbasanta-Nuoro-Siniscola-San Teodoro-Olbia Airport-Olbia-Arzachena-Palau-Santa Teresa di Gallura

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