Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport

Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino Roma/Fiumicino Airport
IATA: FCO – ICAO: LIRF
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aeroporti di Roma SpA
Serves		Rome
Location		Fiumicino
Hub for		Alitalia
Elevation AMSL		15 feet (4.6 m) ft / 5 m
Coordinates		41°48′01″N 012°14′20″E / 41.80028°N 12.23889°E / 41.80028; 12.23889Coordinates: 41°48′01″N 012°14′20″E / 41.80028°N 12.23889°E / 41.80028; 12.23889
Website		www.adr.it
Map
FCO Location in Italy
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
07/25	3,288	10,785	Asphalt
16R/34L	4,012	13,163	Asphalt
16L/34R	3,880	12,740	Asphalt
16C/34C	3,580	11,761	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Total passengers			36,337,523
Aircraft movement			329,269
Source: Italian Aeronautical Information Publication[1] [2]

Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino) (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), also commonly known as Fiumicino Airport, is Italy's largest airport with 36.3 million passengers served in 2010,^[3] located in Fiumicino, 35 km from Rome's historic city centre.

The airport serves as a hub for Alitalia and based on total passenger numbers it was the sixth busiest airport in Europe, and the world's 29th busiest airport in 2011.

The airport is named after Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, who first designed a proto helicopter and a flying machine with wings.

History

The airport was officially opened on January 15, 1961, with two runways, replacing the small Rome Ciampino Airport which remains in service for domestic and charter operations. During the decade Alitalia invested heavily in the new airport, building hangars and maintenance centers; in the same period a third runway was added (16L/34R).

Four runways presently operate at Leonardo da Vinci airport: 16L/34R and 16R/34L (separated by a distance of 4,000 metres), 16C/34C (close to 16L/34R), mostly used as a taxiway or as a backup of 16L/34R, and 07/25, used only westwards for takeoffs due to dominant winds.

Since 2005 the airport operates a category III B instrument landing system (ILS). Further improvement work was implemented in 2007 to enable the airport to handle 30 takeoffs/landings per hour, up from 10, in the event of thick fog.

The terminal areas were upgraded during the 1990s ^[4]:

• 1991: Opening of the domestic pier with 12 loading bridges (Pier A);
• 1995: Opening of the international pier with 10 loading bridges (Pier B);
• 1999: Opening of the west satellite with 11 loading bridges (satellite C) and sky-bridge train connecting it with the main terminal;
• 2000: Opening of the new domestic terminal (terminal A). Reorganization of terminal buildings, then consisting of: terminal A (and pier A), terminal AA, terminal B (and pier B), terminal C (and west satellite);
• 2004: Opening of new cargo terminal called Cargo City;
• 2008: Opening of terminal 5 for check-in of American carrier flights and El-Al (passengers are then bussed to the Main terminal building); serves 950,000 passengers per year. Extended work to build new pier C.
• 2009: Renaming of terminals - A has been renamed T1, AA has become T2, B and C became T3 and T5 has remained as T5.
• 2010: Launch of the new single Baggage Handling System (BHS) for more efficient luggage delivery.

The next commitments will be the following:

• completion of environment-friendly cogeneration system allowing the airport to self-produce energy;
• the new pier C (dedicated to international flights) with 16 additional loading bridges, to be completed by 2011-2012 to enable handling the expected growth from present-day 38 million passengers per year to 55 million by 2018.
• Masterplan Fiumicino Nord: to 2044, AdR, will build four new terminals and two new runways. In 2044 Fiumicino's passengers will be 100 million/year.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aegean Airlines	Athens, Rhodes Seasonal: Heraklion, Mykonos, Santorini	3
Aer Lingus	Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin	3
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo	3
Aerolíneas Argentinas	Buenos Aires-Ezeiza	3
Afriqiyah Airways	Tripoli	3
Air Algérie	Algiers	3
Air Alps	Bolzano, Parma Seasonal: Rimini	1
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg	3
Air Canada	Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson	3
Air China	Beijing-Capital	3
Air Europa	Madrid Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca	3
Air France	Marseille [begins 25 March], Paris-Charles de Gaulle	1
Air France operated by Airlinair	Marseille [ends 24 March 2012]	1
Air France operated by Brit Air	Lyon	1
Air France operated by Régional	Bordeaux, Toulouse	1
Air Italy	Turin, Verona	1
Air Italy	Asmara, Dabaa City, Dubai, Fortaleza, Havana, Hurghada, Maceio, Mombasa, Natal, Nosy Be, Pointe-à-Pitre, Sharm el-Sheikh, Yerevan , Zanzibar	3
Air Malta	Malta	3
Air Moldova	Chişinău	3
Air Seychelles	Mahé [ends 8 January]	3
Air Transat	Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson	3
AirBaltic	Riga	3
Alitalia	Alghero, Amsterdam, Ancona, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Orio al Serio, Munich, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw Seasonal: Lampedusa, Pantelleria	1
Alitalia	Accra, Algiers, Amman-Queen Alia, Ankara, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Boston, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Cairo, Casablanca, Damascus, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lagos, London-Heathrow, Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, St Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sofia, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli [resumes 1 January], Tripoli-Mitiga [ends 31 December], Tunis Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles	3
Alitalia operated by Air Alps	Salerno	1
American Airlines	Seasonal: Chicago-O'Hare, New York-JFK	5*
Arkia Israel Airlines	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	5*
Atlasjet	Istanbul-Ataturk	3
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	3
Baboo	Geneva	3
Belavia	Minsk	3
Belle Air	Tirana	3
Biman Bangladesh Airlines	Dhaka	3
Blue Air	Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa	2
Blue Panorama Airlines	Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Cancun, Cayo Largo, Dalaman, Havana, Hurghada, Kos, La Romana, Luxor, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Montego Bay, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Roatan, Santiago de Cuba, Santorini, Sharm el-Sheikh, Zanzibar	3
Blu-express	Antalya, Brindisi, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Genoa, Granada, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Kos, Lampedusa, Minorca, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Pantelleria, Rhodes, Santorini, Skopje , Turin	3
Bmibaby	Birmingham [resumes 30 march]	3
British Airways	London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow	3
Brussels Airlines	Brussels	3
Bulgaria Air	Sofia	3
Carpatair	Craiova, Timişoara	3
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong	3
China Airlines	Delhi, Taipei-Taoyuan	3
China Eastern Airlines	Shanghai-Pudong	3
Cimber Sterling	Billund, Copenhagen	3
Continental Airlines	Newark	5*
Croatia Airlines	Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb	3
Cyprus Airways	Larnaca	3
Czech Airlines	Prague	3
Darwin Airline	Geneva, Lugano, Rimini	3
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta Seasonal: Detroit, New York-JFK	5*
Eagles Airlines	Pristina, Tirana, Venice-Marco Polo	3
EasyJet	Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao, Bristol, Dubrovnik , Düsseldorf, Geneva, Heraklion , Ibiza , Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly , Split, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo	2
EasyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva	2
EgyptAir	Cairo	3
El Al	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	5*
Emirates	Dubai	3
Eritrean Airlines	Asmara	3
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa	3
Europe Airpost	Ostend, Tangier	3
Finnair	Helsinki	3
FlyOristano	Oristano	3
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart	3
Gulf Air	Bahrain [resumes 30 November]	3
Iberia	Madrid	3
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Badajoz, León, Madrid, San Sebastian	3
Israir Airlines	Tel Aviv	5
Jat Airways	Belgrade	3
Jet2.com	Glasgow-International [begins 16 March], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester	3
Kenya Airways	Nairobi	3
KLM	Amsterdam	1
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon	3
Kuwait Airways	Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle	3
Libyan Airlines	Benghazi, Tripoli	3
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw Seasonal: Kraków	3
Lufthansa	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich	3
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich	3
Luxair	Luxembourg	3
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur	3
Malév Hungarian Airlines	Budapest	3
Meridiana Fly	Cagliari, Olbia, Turin, Verona	1
Meridiana Fly	Dakar, Malé, Mauritius, Mombasa, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Zanzibar	3
Middle East Airlines	Beirut	3
Mistral Air	Lourdes	Cargo
Monarch	Birmingham [begins 25 March 2012], London Luton [begins 25 March 2012], Manchester [Begins 25 March 2012]	3
Montenegro Airlines	Podgorica	3
Neos	Boa Vista, Cancun, Mahe Island, Malé, Mombasa, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Zanzibar	3
Niki	Vienna	3
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter , Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda	3
Onur Air	Antalya	3
Qatar Airways	Doha	3
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen	3
Rossiya	St Petersburg	3
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca	3
Royal Jordanian	Amman-Queen Alia	3
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah, Riyadh	3
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen , Oslo -Gardermoen Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda	3
Singapore Airlines	Singapore	3
Sky Work Airlines	Bern	3
Smart Wings	Prague	3
SriLankan Airlines	Colombo	3
Sun d'Or operated by El Al	Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	5*
Sunwing Airlines	Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson	5*
Swiss International Air Lines	Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich	3
Syrian Air	Aleppo, Damascus	3
TACV	Amilcar Cabral International Airport	3
TAP Portugal	Lisbon	3
TAP operated by Portugalia	Porto	3
TAROM	Bucharest-Henri Coandă	3
Thai Airways International	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi	3
Transavia.com	Rotterdam	3
Tunisair	Monastir, Tunis	3
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk	3
Ukraine International Airlines	Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev-Boryspil	3
United Airlines	Washington-Dulles	5*
Ural Airlines	Yekaterinburg	3
US Airways	Charlotte, Philadelphia	5*
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent	3
Vueling Airlines	Barcelona, Ibiza, Madrid [ends 8 January], Malaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Valencia	3
Wind Jet	Catania, Forlì, Palermo	2
Wind Jet	Seasonal Charter: Tel Aviv	5*
Wizz Air	Belgrade, Brno, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdansk, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Târgu Mureş, Timisoara, Vilnius, Warsaw	2

• All International non-Schengen flights come into Terminal 3, through gates G and H. Terminal 5 is a departure only isolated terminal for all departing US-flagged carriers and a few others.^[5]

Traffic and statistics

Busiest International Routes from Fiumicino within European Union (2010)[6] Rank City Passengers 1 Madrid, Spain 1.272.448 2 Paris-CDG, France 1.195.053 3 London-Heathrow, United Kingdom 1.031.394 4 Amsterdam, Netherlands 808.843 5 Barcelona, Spain 687.563 6 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 642.282 7 Athens, Greece 537.448 8 Munich, Germany 464.720 9 Brussels, Belgium 458.949 10 Vienna, Austria 416.038

Busiest International Routes from Fiumicino outside the European Union (2010) Rank City Passengers 1 New York-JFK, United States 595.408 2 Istanbul-Atatürk, Turkey 587.822 3 Dubai, United Arab Emirates 391.615 4 Tel Aviv, Israel 342.291 5 Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Russia 334.781 6 Cairo, Egypt 323.666 7 Zürich, Switzerland 302.012 8 Tokyo, Japan 298.723 9 Tunis, Tunisia 285.939 10 Geneva, Switzerland 247.012

Other facilities

All Nippon Airways has its Rome Sales Office in the Room 447 in the Office Tower (Torre Uffici), on the airport property.^[7][8] Cathay Pacific has its Rome Office in Torre Uffici 2.^[9]

Ground handling

Ground handling services have been provided by Aeroporti di Roma up to 1999 when it created Aeroporti di Roma Handling (to serve all airlines apart from Alitalia, which continued being handled by Aeroporti di Roma itself). Alitalia provided passenger assistance even before 1999. In 2001 Alitalia created Alitalia Airport and started providing self-handling and third party handling. Air One created EAS and started providing third-party services too. Aeroporti di Roma Handling remains the biggest handler in terms of airlines handled but Alitalia Airport is the biggest handler in terms of airplanes handled as Alitalia aircraft account for 50% of the ones in Fiumicino. There are some private handlers that provide passenger assistance alone: ARE Group, Globeground Italia and ICTS Italia.

On 2 May 2006 Meridiana's passenger handling staff transferred to Alitalia Airport and the ramp transferred to Alitalia Airport in February 2007 (from Aeroporti di Roma Handling).

The ground handling deregulation has brought confusion on who does what and has decreased service levels especially on transferring baggage.

In May 2006 Italy's Civil Aviation Authority announced that it took off the limitation of 3 ramp handlers in Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport. ARE Group and Aviapartner announced that they would create a company called Aviapartner (51% Aviapartner; 49% ARE Group) to serve Milan Malpensa and Rome Leonardo da Vinci. There are fears that luggage mishandling will go up.

In November 2006 Aeroporti di Roma Handling was sold to Flightcare (itself owned by Spanish company FCC), an Aviance member.

Security services

Security Services transferred from the Polizia di Stato to Aeroporti di Roma in 2000. Aeroporti di Roma created Airport Security (100%-owned) to provide these services as well as security services to airlines (in competition with other security companies such as IVRI). Airport Security is supervised by Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Police), Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority) and Aeroporti di Roma.

Ground transportation

Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station

Leonardo da Vinci is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) by car from Rome's historic city centre. The airport is served by the six-lane motorway A91 Roma-Fiumicino and numerous buses and taxis.

Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station is served by the Leonardo Express train operated by Trenitalia, available at the airport terminal. It takes 30 minutes to get to Termini Station in a non-stop trip that is provided twice an hour. Alternatively, local trains leave once every 15 minutes, stopping at all stations. Passengers may have to change at Trastevere, Ostiense (Metro Piramide) or Tuscolana.^[10] The railway was scheduled to open in December 1989, with nonstop and several stop services available.^[11]

Accidents and incidents

From the 1960s until the 1980s, the airport experienced significant aircraft hijackings as well as being the scene of two major terrorist attacks and the port of origin for an aircraft bombing in flight—some engendered by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• On 23 November 1964, TWA Flight 800 (1964) an engine caught fire on the Boeing 707 during take off. 50 out of the 73 passengers and crew on board were killed.

• On 5 March 1967, Varig flight 837, a Douglas DC-8-33 registration PP-PEA flying from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão via Monrovia, caught fire after a mistaken approach to Monrovia, missing the threshold of the runway by 6,023 ft. Of the 90 passengers and crew aboard, 51 died.

• On 17 December 1973, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) Flight 110 was attacked by Palestinian terrorists. 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs were thrown aboard the aircraft as it was preparing for departure.

• On 27 December 1985, during the Rome and Vienna airport attacks terrorists shot and killed 16 people and wounded 99 other at the airport.

• On 2 April 1986, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 840, which was travelling from Fiumicino to Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, was bombed, ejecting 4 people out of the plane to their deaths. The plane landed safely.

• On 17 October 1988, Uganda Airlines flight 775, en route from London Gatwick Airport to Rome then Entebbe International Airport, crashed short of the runway after two missed approaches. 26 of 45 aboard and all 7 crew members died.

• 7 September 2005 – Ryanair is under investigation by ANSV, the Italian air accident investigation agency, for an attempted bad weather approach. During an unstabilised approach, the non-flying co-pilot had to intervene to initiate a late go-around, then the crew decided to divert to Pescara.

References

1. ^ ENAV S.p.A.
2. ^ A6856/07 NOTAMN from European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
3. ^ Italian Airport Statistics
4. ^ Expansion projects at Fiumicino
5. ^ "Where to Meet at FCO?". http://www.roninrome.com/transportation/where-to-meet-at-fco. Retrieved 1 July 2011. 
6. ^ "Stampa di foto a pagina intera" (PDF). http://www.enac.gov.it/La_Comunicazione/Pubblicazioni/info1014822582.html. Retrieved 2010-11-07. 
7. ^ "ANA City Offices/Ticketing Offices Europe." All Nippon Airways. Retrieved on 13 August 2011. "Rome Sales Office Room Nr 447 Torre Uffici Aeroporto Di Fiumicino, 00050 Fiumicino Roma"
8. ^ "Contact ANA." ANA United Kingdom. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "Room 447 Office Tower Fiumicino Airport 00050 Fiumicino (Rome) ITALY"
9. ^ "Italy." Cathay Pacific. Retrieved on August 31, 2011. "Rome Address Torre Uffici 2 Via Generale Felice Santini snc Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci 00054 Fiumicino (RM)"
10. ^ http://www.adr.it/portal/portal/adr/Fiumicino/Servizi/Come_raggiungerci/Arrivo_in_treno_FCO
11. ^ Flight International. 23 May 1987. 5.

External links

	Rome portal
	Aviation portal

• Airport information for LIRF at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for LIRF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
• Current weather for LIRF at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for FCO at Aviation Safety Network
• Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (English/Italian)
• Rome Airport Fiumicino Information (English)
• Boeing Company's listing of Fiumicino Airport, its runways, and noise abatement procedures
• Airport information from World Aeronautical Database
• UK team to plan Rome Fiumicino international terminal expansion