Falcone–Borsellino Airport

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Falcone–Borsellino Airport
Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino
Palermo-Airport-bjs2007-01.jpg
IATA: PMO – ICAO: LICJ
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Government
Serves Palermo, Italy
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 65 ft / 20 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website gesap.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 (2014)
Passengers 4,569,550
Passenger change 13–14 Increase 5.1%
Aircraft movements 41,321
Movements change 13–14 Increase 2.7%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Falcone–Borsellino Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ) (Italian: Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino ) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, 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 4.569.550 passengers handled in 2014.

History

Early years

GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of "Falcone e 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 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 August 2014, Air One announced the closure of their operations which included the shutdown of their Palermo base on 30 September 2014.[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Mediterranée Seasonal: Lyon, Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Alitalia Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Alitalia
operated by Darwin Airline		 Naples
Alitalia
operated by Mistral Air		 Lampedusa, Pantelleria
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia		 Seasonal charter: Belgrade
British Airways Seasonal: London-Heathrow (begins 3 May 2016)[4]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
easyJet London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[5] Lyon, Paris-Orly
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Geneva[6]
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Wrocław
Germanwings Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Air Dolomiti		 Munich
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine		 Seasonal: Frankfurt
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Medavia Seasonal: Malta[7]
Meridiana Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa (begins 13 June 2016),[8] New York-JFK
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
Ryanair Beauvais,[9] Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld,[9] Bologna, London-Stansted, Marseille, Memmingen,[9] Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Treviso, Turin,[9] Verona,[9] Weeze
Seasonal: Dublin, Madrid, Seville
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Zürich
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Charter: Brussels
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 23 April 2016),[10] Munich (begins 30 May 2016)[11]
Transavia France Seasonal: Paris-Orly
Tunisair
operated by TunisAir Express		 Tunis
Volotea Bari, Genoa, Naples, Turin, Venice-Marco Polo, Verona
Seasonal: Athens, Bordeaux, Heraklion (begins 28 June 2016),[12] Ibiza, Mykonos, Nantes, Nice (begins 27 May 2016),[12] Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Santorini, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Toulouse
Vueling Barcelona, Florence, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Split
XL Airways France Seasonal: Lille

Accidents and incidents

Ground transport

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 pm.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 EAD Basic
  2. ↑ Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali
  3. ↑ http://www.lastampa.it/2014/08/26/blogs/allacciate-le-cinture/airone-chiude-le-operazioni-nessun-volo-prenotabile-ad-ottobre-ocGOzoGnSaLIOzds9WguXP/pagina.html
  4. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/21/ba-lhreurope-s16/
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Medavia begins MLA-PMO route
  8. ↑ https://www.meridiana.it/Home/Index/en
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/06/hv-ams-s16update1/
  11. ↑ Transavia Opens Munich Base from late-March 2016
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://www.volotea.com/it/?&esvadt=999999-528902-99826-1&esvq=volotea&esvrq=volotea&esvcrea=5156328867&esvd=c&esvt=11520-MSITe&esvaid=50027
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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