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Cagliari Elmas Airport

International "Mario Mameli"

Aeroporto di Cagliari
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorSo.G.Aer. S.p.A.
ServesCagliari, Sardinia
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL13 ft / 4 m
Coordinates39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E / 39.2514694; 9.0542833
WebsiteOfficial website
Map
CAG is located in Sardinia
CAG
CAG
Location of the airport in Sardinia
CAG is located in Italy
CAG
CAG
CAG (Italy)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers4,396,594
Passenger change 21-22Increase 59.6%
Aircraft movements37,740
Movements change 21-22Increase 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.

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

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

AirlinesDestinations
Air FranceSeasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
AlbaStarSeasonal: Bergamo
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna
British AirwaysSeasonal: London–Gatwick[3][4]
easyJetMilan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Lyon, Naples, Paris–Orly
Edelweiss AirSeasonal: Zürich
EurowingsSeasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
IberiaSeasonal: Madrid[5]
ITA AirwaysMilan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino[6]
KLMSeasonal: Amsterdam[7]
LufthansaSeasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg
Marathon AirlinesSeasonal charter: Innsbruck[8]
NeosSeasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
RyanairBari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Charleroi, Cuneo, Genoa,[9] Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa,[10] Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 July 2025),[11] Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg,[12] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,[13] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 1 July 2025)[14]
SkyAlpsSeasonal: Bolzano
SmartwingsSeasonal: Prague
TransaviaSeasonal: Paris–Orly
Universal AirSeasonal: Prague[15]
VoloteaFlorence, Turin, Venice, Verona
VuelingBarcelona

Statistics

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Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

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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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  • 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.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  2. ^ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
  3. ^ "British Airways - Information Page".
  4. ^ "BA EuroFlyer April 2023 Network". Aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "KLM August 2022 Intra-European Frequency Adjustment - 10JUL22". Aeroroutes.
  8. ^ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
  10. ^ "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
  11. ^ "Ryanair NS25 Network Additions – 01DEC24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
  13. ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  14. ^ "SAS NS25 Intercontinental Network Update; Summer Holidays Addition". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  15. ^ "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes". 16 April 2024.
  16. ^ "ASN Aircraft Accident description of the 14 SEP 1979 accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 I-ATJC at Sarroch". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. 21 February 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
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