Cagliari Elmas Airport

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.

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″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E / 39.2514694; 9.0542833
Website	Official website
Map
CAG Location of the airport in Sardinia Show map of Sardinia CAG CAG (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 4,747,806 Passenger change 2018–19 8.6% Aircraft movements 39,691 Movements change 2017–2018 11.9%
Statistics from Assaeroporti^[1]

History

 

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:

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
flydubai	Seasonal: Dubai–International
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa^[5]
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, Kraków, London–Stansted, Malta, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Nuremberg, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Porto, Rimini, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona Seasonal: Carcassonne, Dublin, Gothenburg, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Perugia, Poznań, Trieste,^[7] Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Volotea	Ancona, Barcelona, Milan–Linate, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Verona Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao, Brindisi, Bordeaux, Florence, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse, Venice
Vueling	Barcelona

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

The airport is about 7 km from Cagliari city centre. A railway station serving the airport enables connections to most Sardinian towns.

References

1. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
2. Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
3. "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.
4. https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/sardinia/flights-to-sardinia
5. "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.
6. "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
7. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230918-frnw23

External links

  Media related to Cagliari Elmas airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for CAG at Aviation Safety Network