G. B. Pastine Rome Ciampino Airport Aeroporto internazionale di Roma-Ciampino G. B. Pastine | |||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||||
| Owner | Mundys | ||||||||||||
| Operator | Aeroporti di Roma | ||||||||||||
| Serves | Ciampino Rome Metropolitan City of Rome Capital Lazio region Vatican City | ||||||||||||
| Location | Ciampino,Rome,Lazio, Italy | ||||||||||||
| Operating base for | Ryanair Wizz Air | ||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 427 ft / 130 m | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°47′58″N012°35′50″E / 41.79944°N 12.59722°E /41.79944; 12.59722 | ||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||
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| Source: ItalianAIP atEUROCONTROL[1] Statistics from Assaeroporti[2] | |||||||||||||
G. B. Pastine Rome Ciampino Airport (IATA:CIA,ICAO:LIRA) (Italian:Aeroporto internazionale di Roma-Ciampino "G. B. Pastine") is Rome's secondaryinternational airport servingRome, it's metropolitan area,Vatican City, and widerLazio region. It is Rome's second international airport afterLeonardo da Vinci–Rome Fiumicino Airport. It is a joint civilian, commercial and military airport situated 6.5 NM (12.0 km; 7.5 mi) south southeast[1] of central Rome, just outside the Greater Ring Road (Italian:Grande Raccordo Anulare orGRA) the circular motorway around the city.
The airport is a base for two low-cost carriers andgeneral aviation traffic. It also hosts a military airport and the headquarters of the31º Stormo and the 2nd Reparto Genio of theItalian Air Force. The airport is named after Giovan Battista Pastine, an Italian airship pilot who served in World War I.
Ciampino Airport was opened in 1916[3] and is one of the oldest airports still in operation.
From here, on 10 April 1926,Umberto Nobile took off on theairship Norge, the first aircraft to reach the North Pole and the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. In October 1930, the first helicopter prototype designed byCorradino D'Ascanio was tested at Ciampino Airport, reaching a record altitude of 18 m (59 ft), flight time of 8 minutes 45 seconds and 1,078 m (3,537 ft) distance flown.
DuringWorld War II, the airport was captured by Allied forces in June 1944, and afterward became aUnited States Army Air Forces military airfield. Although primarily used as a transport base byC-47 Skytrain aircraft of the64th Troop Carrier Group, theTwelfth Air Force86th Bombardment Group flewA-36 Apache combat aircraft from the airport during the immediate period after its capture from German forces.
When the combat units moved out,Air Transport Command used the airport as a major transshipment hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel for the remainder of the war.[4]
It was Rome's main airport until 1960, with traffic amounting to over 2 million passengers per year. After the opening ofLeonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, Ciampino handled almost exclusively charter and executive flights for more than three decades. However, the terminal facilities were extended at the beginning of 2007 to accommodate the growing number oflow-cost carrier operations.
The airport features a single, one-story passenger terminal building containing the departures and arrivals facilities. The departures area consists of a main hall with some stores and service facilities as well as 31 check-in counters and 16 departure gates using walk or bus boarding as there are no jet-bridges. The arrivals area has a separate entrance and features four baggage belts as well as some more service counters.[5]
The airport hosts a fleet ofBombardier 415aerial firefighting aircraft.[6] It is also used byexpress logistics companies such asDHL, by official flights of the Italian Government and by planes of dignitaries visiting the Italian capital. There is also an additional smaller general aviation terminal, although private flights have now mainly been transferred toRome Urbe Airport.
The following passenger airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Ciampino Airport:[7]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Ryanair | Bratislava,[8]Bucharest–Otopeni,[8]Budapest,[8]Cagliari,[8]Charleroi,[8]Cork (ends 26 March 2026),[9]Edinburgh,[10]Fez,[8]Gdansk,[11]Kraków,[8]London–Stansted,[12]Manchester,[8]Marrakesh,[13]Poznan,[8]Prague,[14]Rabat,[15]Shannon (begins 31 March 2026),[16]Sofia,[8]Tirana,[17]Vilnius,[18]Warsaw–Modlin[8] Seasonal:Amman–Queen Alia,[19]Birmingham,[20]Corfu,[21]East Midlands,[22]Liverpool,[15]Paphos,[8]Rhodes[8] |
After decades of stagnation in scheduled traffic, low-cost carriers have boosted Ciampino from the year 2002 onwards.
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