- Trapani-Birgi Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Vincenzo Florio Airport
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IATA = TPS
ICAO = LICT
type = Public & Military
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location = Trapani
elevation-f = 24
elevation-m = 7
coordinates = Coord|37|54|41|N|12|29|16|E|type:airport|display=inline,title
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r1-number = 13/31
r1-length-f = 8,852
r1-length-m = 2,698
r1-surface = Asphalt
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footnotes =Vincenzo Florio Airport airport codes|TPS|LICT, also known as Trapani-Birgi Airport and Birgi Airport, is an
airport located inTrapani ,Italy . It is one of the five airports inSicily with civil purposes, but is also used for military issues (namely the base is used as one of the four Forward Operating Bases [FOBs] used by theNATO AWACS stationed out of Geilenkirchen Germany] ). The airport is named after Sicilianwine industralist and automobile enthusiastVincenzo Florio .Located 13 km south west of
Trapani , and inaugurated in the early 1960s, after a long period of inactivity the airport was relaunched by theProvince of Trapani in 2003, and now it hosts several flights, included new low-cost connections.With 507.185 passengers went through the airport in 2007, it is the third airport of
Sicily for relevance.Airlines and destinations
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Avanti Air (Pantelleria)
*Meridiana (Palermo)
*Air Bee (Bari, Brescia, Rome-FCO, Milan-Linate)
*Ryanair (Barcelona-Girona, Birmingham, Bremen, Dublin, Dusseldorf-Weeze, Frankfurt-Hahn, London-Luton, Milan-Orio al Serio, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta)External links
* [http://www.airgest.it/ Official website]
* [http://www.aeroportotrapani.com/ www.aeroportotrapani.com – Unofficial website]
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