Pisa International Airport

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Pisa International Airport

Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa
Mezhdunarodnyi aeroport Galileo Galilei, gorod Piza, Italiia.JPG
Summary
Airport typePublic / military
Operator Aeronautica Militare Italiana / Toscana Aeroporti S.p.A.
Serves Pisa, Italy
Focus city for Ryanair
Elevation  AMSL 6 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 43°41′02″N010°23′33″E / 43.68389°N 10.39250°E / 43.68389; 10.39250
Website www.pisa-airport.com
Map
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PSA
Location in Italy
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PSA
PSA (Italy)
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
04R/22L2,9939,819 Asphalt
04L/22R2,7929,160Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers5,109,682
Passenger change 22-23Increase2.svg 13.7%
Aircraft movements39,872
Movements change 22-23Increase2.svg 5.9%
Cargo (tons)12,802
Cargo change 22-23Decrease2.svg -13.3%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL [1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti [2]

Pisa International Airport (Italian : Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa) ( IATA : PSA, ICAO : LIRP), [3] also named Galileo Galilei Airport, [4] is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is one of the two major airports in Tuscany, the other being Florence Airport. Pisa is ranked 10th in Italy in terms of passenger numbers. [5] It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. [6]

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Overview

Since 2017 the airport has its own Pisa Mover shuttle service to and from Pisa Centrale railway station. A return ticket costs ten euros and the shuttle takes 5 minutes. The airport also has five passenger and one coach parking areas. [7]

Besides civilian operations, the airport is also used extensively by the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) and is a base for, amongst others, the C-130 Hercules and C-27J Spartan transport aircraft. [8] The airport is home to 46ª Brigata Aerea Silvio Angelucci (46th Air Brigade). During the end of World War II the airport was used as a base for the 15th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces.

Facilities

Aerial view Aerial Aeroporto Pisa San Giusto.jpg
Aerial view

The airport is at an elevation of 6 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 04R/22L measuring 3,002 by 45 metres (9,849 ft × 148 ft) and 04L/22R measuring 2,793 by 43 metres (9,163 ft × 141 ft). [9]

The terminal building has 16 gates (numbered 01–11 and 21–25), one of which (Gate 23) is equipped with a jetbridge; however, this is almost never used. Gates 1–11 are on the ground floor and are for Schengen flights. Shuttle buses are used to take passengers to the plane. Gates 21–25 are non-Schengen and are on level one. Walk-boarding, bus-boarding and boarding by jetway are used here.

Airlines and destinations

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
AeroItalia Comiso
Air Albania Tirana (resumes 31 March 2024) [10]
Air Arabia Casablanca
Air Dolomiti Frankfurt
British Airways London–Heathrow
easyJet Berlin, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, [11] Paris–Orly, Porto [11]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Barcelona (begins 26 June 2024) [12]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
flydubai Dubai–International
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair Alghero, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Dublin, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Girona, Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Porto, [13] Prague, Seville, Tenerife–South, Tirana, [14] Trapani, Valencia, Wrocław
Seasonal: Amman–Queen Alia, [15] Billund, Brussels, Chania, Copenhagen, Corfu, Cork, East Midlands, Gdańsk, Glasgow–Prestwick, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Kaunas (begins 31 March 2024), [16] Kefalonia, Kos, Lisbon, Memmingen, Rhodes, Sandefjord (begins 1 April 2024), [17] Skiathos, Stockholm–Arlanda, [18] Warsaw–Modlin, Zadar, Zagreb (begins 31 March 2024) [19]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia Amsterdam
Volotea Seasonal: Nantes, Olbia
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni, Tirana

Statistics

In 2006 and 2007, the airport was the fastest growing among Italy's top 15 airports, with passenger numbers up 30% in 2006 and 24% in 2007. In 2008 it was Italy's 11 busiest airport, handling 3,963,717 and 4,011,525 passengers in 2010. In 2011 the growth rose to 11.3% and the airport carried 4.526.723 passengers. [8]

Annual passenger traffic at PSA airport. See Wikidata query.

Accidents and incidents

See also

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