Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport

Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport Aeroporto Salerno Costa d'Amalfi
Terminal building
IATA: QSR – ICAO: LIRI QSR Location of the airport in Italy
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Owner/Operator	Aeroporto di Salerno S.p.A.
Serves	Salerno
Location	Via Olmo, Bellizzi (bordering with Pontecagnano Faiano)
Opened	1926 (1926)
Elevation AMSL	131 ft / 40 m
Coordinates
Website	www.aeroportosalerno.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 5,426 1,654 Asphalt

Airport terminal

Aerial view of the runway

The Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (IATA: QSR, ICAO: LIRI), located in the municipality of Pontecagnano Faiano and close to Bellizzi, is an airport in southern Italy, near to Salerno and the west coastal areas of Amalfi to the north and Cilento to the south. It is also commonly known as Salerno-Pontecagnano Airport.

History

The airport was founded in 1926 by Aeronautica Militare, Italy's military air force. A flight training facility was established between 1933 and 1943. The first hangar was designed by the famous architect Pier Luigi Nervi. In 1946, a meteorological service was established, and in 1952, the Salerno Air Club was founded. The airport has hosted the Carabinieri helipad since 1975, and the Firefighter helipad and a parachuting school since 1984. A new control tower was built in 1987. The airport was exclusively used by the Carabinieri, Firefighters, flight and parachuting school and small private jets until 2007.
The airport was then developed to accommodate civil traffic on a large scale, with four check-in desks, two boarding areas, luggage belts and waiting rooms. The runway has a VOR system, a radio direction finder VDF and a lighting system. The runway was extended for a total length of 1 654 m, with an extensions to 2 020 m planned. In 2011 was presented the project for the extension of the runway up to 2020 m (more than 60 m of anti blast) and for the creation of new buildings and other technical adjustments.

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled flights started in 2008 with the company VolaSalerno, which worked from August 2, 2008 to December 18, 2008, followed by Air Dolomiti from July 27, 2009 to May 7, 2010, Alitalia from December 1, 2010 to March 23, 2012, Skybridge AirOps, Air Dolomiti and Danube Wings from June, 2012 to October, 2012.

As of 2015, the charter airline, Air Vallée, was running charter flights between Salerno and Corfu.

During Summer 2016, Denim Air operates charter flights to Corfu, Ibiza, Tabres/Lourdes, Malta, Milan-Malpensa, Mostar, Olbia, Verona. Flights are operated with a Fokker 100 with 100 seats.

Statistics

Year	Movements	Variation %	Passengers	Variation %
2008	588		18,067
2009	469	20.24	3,968	78.04
2010	1,049	123.67	5,163	30.12
2011	2,644	152.05	24,631	377.07
2012	1,553	41.26	8,797	64.28
2013	826	46,81	2,009	77,16
2014	832	0,7	2,245	11,07
Total	7,129		62,635

Transport

• Car:
  • Motorway A3 SA-RC, Montecorvino Pugliano - Pontecagnano Sud - Airport exit;
  • Salerno Bypass (Italian: Tangenzialecode: it is deprecated ), SP 417 "Aversana"- Airport exit;
  • Strada statale 18 Tirrena Inferiore.
• Parking: 150 free parking spaces in front of the terminal.
• Taxi: fixed fee from/to Salerno 30 Euro, from/to Battipaglia 15 Euro.
• Bus: CSTP 8 line.
• Train: Salerno and Pontecagnano Faiano stations.
• Subway: an extension of Metropolitana di Salerno to the airport is planned.

Distances

• Bellizzi: 3 km (1.9 mi)
• Pontecagnano, Battipaglia: 5 km (3.1 mi)
• Faiano: 7 km (4.3 mi)
• Salerno: 12 km (7.5 mi)
• University of Salerno: 25 km (16 mi)
• Paestum: 27 km (17 mi)
• Palinuro: 45 km (28 mi)
• Amalfi: 45 km (28 mi)
• Avellino, Pompei: 50 km (31 mi)
• Ercolano, Positano: 63 km (39 mi)
• Naples: 70 km (43 mi)
• Sorrento: 73 km (45 mi)
• Benevento, Potenza: 85 km (53 mi)
• Caserta: 90 km (56 mi)

External links

• Official website
• First flight Salerno-Milan Malpensa video