Cagliari Elmas Airport
Cagliari Elmas Airport International "Mario Mameli" Aeroporto di Cagliari | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | So.G.Aer. S.p.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Cagliari, Sardinia | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 13 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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  CAG Location of the airport in Sardinia  CAG CAG (Italy) | |||||||||||
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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
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:
Statistics
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Ground transportation
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
- 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
- ^ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
- ^ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
- ^ "British Airways - Information Page".
- ^ "BA EuroFlyer April 2023 Network". Aeroroutes.com. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ "Iberia Resumes 3 European Routes in 3Q24". AeroRoutes.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "KLM August 2022 Intra-European Frequency Adjustment - 10JUL22". Aeroroutes.
- ^ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
- ^ "Ryanair NW22 Network Additions Summary – 09DEC22". Aeroroutes.
- ^ "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
- ^ "Ryanair NS25 Network Additions – 01DEC24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- ^ "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
- ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
- ^ "SAS NS25 Intercontinental Network Update; Summer Holidays Addition". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
- ^ "Universal Air unveils expanded summer schedule with four new routes". 16 April 2024.
- ^ "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.
External links
Media related to Cagliari Elmas airport at Wikimedia Commons
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