Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
nativename = Trieste Ronchi dei Legionari Airport
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IATA = TRS
ICAO = LIPQ
type = Public
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operator = Aeroporto FVG Spa
city-served = Trieste
location = Ronchi dei Legionari
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r1-number = 09/27
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Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport airport codes|TRS|LIPQ, also known as Trieste Airport or Ronchi dei Legionari Airport, is an airport located in Ronchi dei Legionari (Gorizia), near Trieste, the capital and biggest city of the Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia.

This airport is strategically positioned as a gateway to a multi-national, 4-country region where the Upper Adriatic meets the Eastern Alps, with a service area stretching well beyond the borders of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and its 1.2 million inhabitants, into Veneto, Slovenia, Croatia and Carinthia, an area that has a population of about 5 million people as a whole.

It is a major international, modern air terminal with landing and take-off authorization for all types of aircraft and handling authorization for all types of goods.

In recent years, the type and amount of activities carried out at the airport have increased, to the point that a new facility for cargo and related services has been opened and the airport now also offers services such as aerotaxi and executive flights.

In 2007, there were 742,136 passengers.

Parking

The airport is just 1 kilometre off the A4 Trieste-Venice motorway ("Redipuglia exit").

It is provided with short and long-stay car parks. While P1 and P2 are reserved for long-stays and are therefore attended and charged, P3 is a pay-and-display short-stay car park. P4 is free of charge for stays up to 30 minutes.

P1 and P2 information:

* parking space cannot be pre-booked;
* no covered car bays available;
* payment at P2 cashpoint before withdrawing the car: 1) staffed cash desk accepts cash, credit and debit cards; 2) automatic cash machine accepts cash and credit cards;
* payment at car park exit columns with credit cards only.

Public transport

Monfalcone Railway Station - located some 5 kilometres from the airport on the Trieste-Venice railway line - can be reached by Local Transport service APT Bus 10, running every 20/25 minutes.

The Public Transport company APT operates bus and coach services linking the airport with:

*Gorizia: Coach 1 and other services in connection with Coach 51
*Monfalcone: Bus 10
*Udine: Coach 51 (also non-stop via motorway)
*Trieste: Coach 51

Tickets can be purchased at city bus/coach stations or at the airport: in the Arrivals Hall, with an automatic machine for selfticketing and at the Post Office

At Trieste Coach Station, bus and coach connections to Slovenia (Izola, Koper, Ljubljana, Piran, Portorož, Postojna, Sežana) and Croatia (Dubrovnik, Porec, Pula, Opatija, Rijeka, Rovinj, Split, Zadar) are available.

Taxies are available outside the Arrivals hall from 08.00 to 24.00.

History

The first official documents citing the airfield of Ronchi dei Legionari date back to November 30 1935, when the 4th Fighter Wing of Royal Italian Air Force was based here.

Commercial operations officially start on December 2, 1961.

Airlines and destinations

*Aegean Airlines
*Air France
**operated by Brit Air (Paris-CDG)
*Air Italy
*Air One (Naples, Rome-Fiumicino)
*Air Vallee (Genoa, Turin)
*Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
*Belle Air (Tirana)
*Eurofly
*Jat Airways (Belgrade)
*Lufthansa
**operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
*Ryanair (Birmingham, London-Stansted)
*Sky Europe (Prague)
*Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
*Tunisair

The Company

The "Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia SpA" is the Company that has been running the airport since July 1997; its shareholders are the "Consorzio per l'Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia" - a consortium of local authorities and municipalities - (51%) and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (49%).

Its mission is to:
* improve the role of the airport within the international air transport network;
* respond to the needs of the catchment area developing direct links to new destinations;
* offer competitive airport services of high quality to Customers, i.e. airlines, passengers and freight forwarders;
* plan and develop the airport infrastructures;
* continuously update and upgrade systems and equipment keeping them at the highest international standards;

In addition to that the Company aims at developing the non-aviation activities at the airport. The project of the "Polo Intermodale" is part of this planned expansion, that envisages the development of a multi-modal (air-road-rail) interchange that will be built in the near future just in front of the airport terminal.

External links

* [http://www.aeroporto.fvg.it/ Official Website] it icon en icon sl icon
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* [http://www.trieste-trs.airports-guides.com Information about Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport]