Falcone Borsellino Airport

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Falcone Borsellino Airport

Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino
Aeroporto di Palermo-Punta Raisi ingresso.jpg
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment
ServesPalermo, Italy
LocationCinisi, Palermo, Italy
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL65 ft / 20 m
Coordinates38°10′55″N 013°05′58″E / 38.18194°N 13.09944°E / 38.18194; 13.09944Coordinates: 38°10′55″N 013°05′58″E / 38.18194°N 13.09944°E / 38.18194; 13.09944
Websitegesap.it
Map
PMO is located in Sicily
PMO
PMO
Location within Sicily
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,326 10,912 Bitumen
02/20 2,068 6,784 Bitumen
Statistics (2020)
Passengers2,701,519
Passenger change 19-20Decrease -61.5%
Movements28,421
Movements change 19-20Decrease -47.6%
Cargo (tons)2,534
Cargo change 19-20Increase +117.3%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Falcone Borsellino Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ) (Italian: Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport, is located at Cinisi, 19 NM (35 km; 22 mi) west northwest[1] of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily. It is the second airport of Sicily in terms of passengers after Catania-Fontanarossa Airport, with 7.018.087 passengers handled in 2019.

History[]

Apron view
Aerial view

Early years[]

GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of "Falcone Borsellino" Airport in Palermo. It has a fully paid-up share capital of €15,912,332 divided between the Regional Province of Palermo, the Comune of Palermo, the Chamber of Commerce, the Comune of Cinisi and other minor partners.

Established in 1985, until 1994 GESAP operated exclusively as handler and supplier of ground services for Palermo Airport, the management of which is directly assigned by the government and overseen by the District Airport Directorate.

The airport was given the name Falcone Borsellino in memory of the two leading anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992. A 1.90-metre (6 ft 3 in) diameter plaque featuring their portraits can be found to the right of one of the main outside entrances to the departure hall, set into a mosaic of Sicily. Created by the Sicilian sculptor Tommaso Geraci, it bears the inscription Giovanni Falcone–Paolo Borsellino–Gli Altri–L'orgoglio della Nuova Sicilia (Giovanni Falcone–Paolo Borsellino–The Others–The Pride of the New Sicily).

In 1994, GESAP was charged with the partial management of the airport through a convention which granted the company a 20-year mandate to run land-side activities (the airport buildings and surrounding areas).

In April 1999, GESAP obtained an anticipated mandate to manage the airport's air side activities, and, more specifically, the flight infrastructure (runways, links, taxiways and aprons) as foreseen by art. 17 L. 135/97.

As airport management company, GESAP plans, creates and manages the airport's areas, infrastructures and systems, ensuring the necessary maintenance and implementation of the same. It also provides centralised services such as airport coordination, public information systems, security controls and surveillance as well as managing commercial outlets through concessions to third parties.

Development since the 2000s[]

In April 2004, GESAP was awarded UNI ISO 9001/2000 (Vision 2000) certification. The company had already received certification for its services and processes in the handling sector and this too was renewed by the certification body, TÜV, in December 2006.

On 30 May 2004, ENAC awarded GESAP an "airport certificate" in recognition of the airport's full conformity with the regulations set down in ENAC's "regulations for the construction and management of airports". On 24 May 2007 GESAP has obtained the renewal of the airport certificate until 30 May 2010.

Today, after having recently transferred its handling sector to a controlled company, GH Palermo, GESAP is awaiting a ministerial decree that will grant it a forty-year concession for the total management of the airport. This comes after the deliberation of ENAC's board of directors on 1 March 2005 that was officialised in a convention signed on 17 November 2006.

In June 2005, Eurofly launched seasonal flights from Palermo to New York City using Airbus A330s.[3][4][5] The company later merged with Meridiana to create Meridiana Fly, which continued to operate the transatlantic service. However, as a result of the airline's decision to rebrand as Air Italy, the route ended in October 2017.[6][7]

Airlines and destinations[]

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta Malta
Albastar Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal charter: Lourdes
ASL Airlines France Seasonal charter: Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Olbia, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
DAT Lampedusa, Pantelleria
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London–Luton, Milan–Malpensa, Naples
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[8] London–Gatwick, Lyon, Paris–Orly
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Kraków, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław[9]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf,[10] Stuttgart
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona[11]
Seasonal charter: Abu Dhabi, Pointe-à-Pitre
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cuneo, Edinburgh, Genoa, Hahn, Kraków, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Lviv, Madrid, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Nuremberg, Perugia, Pisa, Riga, Rome–Fiumicino, Seville, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Weeze, Wrocław
Seasonal: Alghero, Bordeaux, Brindisi, Dublin, Manchester, Rimini, Santorini, Trieste, Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich[12]
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam
Transavia France Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Seasonal charter: Brest,[13] Lyon,[13] Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse[13]
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam[14]
Tunisair Tunis
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark
Volotea Ancona, Naples, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Deauville (begins 15 April 2022),[15] Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Olbia, Strasbourg, Zakynthos (resumes 2 July 2022)
Vueling Barcelona, Florence
Wizz Air Basel/Mulhouse, Bologna, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa, Prague (begins 30 May 2022),[16] Rome-Ciampino (begins 1 March 2022),[17] Turin, Venice, Verona

Statistics[]

Annual passenger traffic at PMO airport. See source Wikidata query.

Accidents and incidents[]

  • On 5 May 1972, Alitalia Flight 112
  • On 23 December 1978, Alitalia Flight 4128
  • On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153, an ATR 72–500 ran out of fuel while en route and ditched about 18 miles from the city of Palermo. 16 of the 39 people on board died.
  • On 24 September 2010, Wind Jet Flight 243, operated by Airbus A319-132 EI-EDM,[18] landed short of the runway after encountering a thunderstorm and windshear on approach. The aircraft was substantially damaged when it impacted the localiser. Both main undercarriage sets collapsed and the aircraft was evacuated by the emergency slides.[19] Around 20 passengers were injured in the evacuation.[18]

Ground transport[]

Train[]

The airport's railway facility, Punta Raisi railway station, is the northwestern terminus of Palermo metropolitan railway service. It links the airport with Palermo Centrale railway station. A typical timetable on work days is a train every 30 minutes in each direction between early morning and around 10.00 pm.

Bus[]

There are several private bus companies, which stop at the bus station outside the terminal building and connect the airport with nearby Palermo city.[20] There are further connections to/from Palermo, Catania, Messina and rest of Sicily.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "EAD Basic". Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Traffic Data 2019" (PDF).
  3. ^ Connelly, Marjorie (15 May 2005). "Advisory: Travel notes; Comings and goings". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  4. ^ McCartney, Scott (10 May 2005). "New bargain airlines offer cheaper fares to Europe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Meridiana, Palermo più vicina a New York: raddoppiati i voli". Palermo Today (in Italian). 26 November 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  6. ^ "L'America si avvicina: da maggio torna il volo Palermo-New York". Palermo Today (in Italian). 22 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Palermo to see TATL flights as United expands to Europe". Ch-aviation. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  8. ^ http://www.easyjet.com/
  9. ^ "air and charter tickets". itaka.pl.
  10. ^ https://www.eurowings.com/it/prenotazione/voli/ricerca-voli.html?source=web&destination=DUS&origin=PMO&fromdate=2021-05-02&triptype=oneway&adults=1&childs=0&infants=0&lng=it-IT#/prenota-voli/select
  11. ^ "Neos Air". neosair.it. 17 January 2021.
  12. ^ https://www.swiss.com/it/it/Book/Outbound/PMO-ZRH/from-2022-01-08/to-2022-01-14/adults-1/children-0/infants-0/class-economy/al-LX/sidx1xt?origin=PMO&destination=ZRH&from=08.01.2022&to=14.01.2022&children=0&serviceClass=class-economy&showSearchForm=False
  13. ^ a b c "Home". Aeroporto di Palermo. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Home". Tui fly vliegtickets. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  15. ^ https://www.tourmag.com/Volotea-etoffe-son-programme-depuis-Ajaccio-Deauville-et-Toulouse_a112096.html
  16. ^ "WIZZ – Sogna di più. Vivi di più. Scopri di più".
  17. ^ "WIZZ – Sogna di più. Vivi di più. Scopri di più".
  18. ^ a b "EI-EDM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
  19. ^ Hradecky, Simon (24 September 2010). "Accident: Windjet A319 at Palermo on Sep 24th 2010, touched down short of runway". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
  20. ^ "Falcone–Borsellino Airport". Retrieved 6 February 2017.

External links[]

Media related to Palermo Punta Raisi Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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