Falcone Borsellino Airport

Falcone Borsellino Airport

*Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino*
Falcone Borsellino Airport; Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino
	IATA: PMO; ICAO: LICJ;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government
Serves	Palermo, Italy
Location	Cinisi, Palermo, Italy
Focus city for	Ryanair; Volotea;
Elevation AMSL	65 ft / 20 m
Coordinates	38°10′55″N 013°05′58″E
Website	gesap.it
Map
	PMO Location within Sicily PMO PMO (Italy)
Runways
Statistics (2021)
Passengers
Passengers	4,575,246
Passenger change 20-21	69.4%
Movements	41,307
Movements change 20-21	45.3%
Cargo (tons)	3,077
Cargo change 20-21	21.4%
	Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]; Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Falcone Borsellino Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ) (Italian: Aeroporto Falcone Borsellino) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport, is an international airport located at Cinisi, 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 7,018,087 passengers handled in 2019.

History

Early years

GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of the airport. 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 Sicilian 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 June 2005, Eurofly launched seasonal flights from Palermo to New York City using Airbus A330s.[3][4][5] The company later merged with Meridiana to create Meridiana Fly, which continued to operate the transatlantic service. However, as a result of the airline's decision to rebrand as Air Italy, the route ended in October 2017.[6][7]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Palermo Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
AeroItalia	Rome–Fiumicino (begins 1 June 2023)[8] Seasonal: Bergamo (begins 3 July 2023)[9]
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta	Malta
Air Serbia	Belgrade (begins 14 June 2023)[10]
Albastar	Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Croatia Airlines	Seasonal charter: Mostar[11]
DAT	Lampedusa, Pantelleria
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London–Luton, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Amsterdam, London–Gatwick, Lyon, Paris–Orly, Porto (begins 1 July 2023)[12]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Iberia Express	Seasonal: Madrid
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen (begins 23 June 2023),[13] Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair	Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cuneo, Dublin, Edinburgh, Forlì, Genoa, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kraków, London–Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Nuremberg, Parma,[14] Perugia, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Wrocław Seasonal: Alghero, Brindisi, Hahn, Rimini, Trieste, Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[15]
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
Transavia	Seasonal: Rotterdam
Transavia France	Paris–Orly Seasonal: Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[16]
Volotea	Ancona, Naples, Turin, Verona Seasonal: Athens, Deauville, Florence, Lille, Lourdes, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Olbia, Santorini (resumes 1 June 2023),[17] Strasbourg, Toulouse (resumes 26 May 2023),[18] Zakynthos
Vueling	Barcelona, Florence
Wizz Air	Venice

Statistics

Apron view

Aerial view

Annual passenger traffic at PMO airport. See Wikidata query.

Accidents and incidents

On 5 May 1972, Alitalia Flight 112 flew into Mt. Longa on approach to Palermo Airport. All 115 aboard were killed.
On 23 December 1978, Alitalia Flight 4128 crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on approach to Palermo Airport.
On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153, an ATR 72–500, ran out of fuel while en route and ditched about 18 miles from the city of Palermo. 16 of the 39 people on board died.
On 24 September 2010, Wind Jet Flight 243, operated by Airbus A319-132 EI-EDM,[19] landed short of the runway after encountering a thunderstorm and windshear on approach. The aircraft was substantially damaged when it impacted the localiser. Both main undercarriage sets collapsed and the aircraft was evacuated by the emergency slides.[20] Around 20 passengers were injured in the evacuation.[19]

Ground transport

Train

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 10.00 pm.

Bus

There are several private bus companies, which stop at the bus station outside the terminal building and connect the airport with nearby Palermo city.[21] There are further connections to/from Palermo, Catania, Messina and rest of Sicily.

References

"EAD Basic". Retrieved 23 April 2020.
"Traffic Data 2021" (PDF).
Connelly, Marjorie (15 May 2005). "Advisory: Travel notes; Comings and goings". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
McCartney, Scott (10 May 2005). "New bargain airlines offer cheaper fares to Europe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
"Meridiana, Palermo più vicina a New York: raddoppiati i voli". Palermo Today (in Italian). 26 November 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
"L'America si avvicina: da maggio torna il volo Palermo-New York". Palermo Today (in Italian). 22 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
"Palermo to see TATL flights as United expands to Europe". Ch-aviation. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
"AeroItalia presenta i nuovi voli da Palermo e Catania per Roma". 15 February 2023.
"AeroItalia: nuovo volo stagionale Bergamo – Palermo". 21 March 2023.
"Air Serbia unveils first set of new routes for next summer".
"Direktor Zračne luke Mostar najavio čarter letove iz Poljske, Italije, Jordana". 25 April 2022.
"EASYJET NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS SUMMARY – 30JAN23". Aeroroutes. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
"Summer 2023: Norwegian launches more than twenty new routes from Denmark and Norway". 17 November 2022.
"Ryanair apre il Parma-Palermo". 8 December 2022.
"Biuro podróży ITAKA | Wakacje - wycieczki i wczasy zagraniczne". www.itaka.pl.
"THY'den yeni hat ve sefer artışı duyurusu". www.airporthaber.com. 28 December 2022.
"VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avión a Europa". 28 November 2022.
"VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avión a Europa". 18 October 2022.
"EI-EDM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
Hradecky, Simon (24 September 2010). "Accident: Windjet A319 at Palermo on Sep 24th 2010, touched down short of runway". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
"Falcone–Borsellino Airport". Retrieved 6 February 2017.

External links

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[AIP-1] "EAD Basic". Retrieved 23 April 2020.

[Assaeroporti-2] "Traffic Data 2021" (PDF).

[3] Connelly, Marjorie (15 May 2005). "Advisory: Travel notes; Comings and goings". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[4] McCartney, Scott (10 May 2005). "New bargain airlines offer cheaper fares to Europe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[5] "Meridiana, Palermo più vicina a New York: raddoppiati i voli". Palermo Today (in Italian). 26 November 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[6] "L'America si avvicina: da maggio torna il volo Palermo-New York". Palermo Today (in Italian). 22 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[7] "Palermo to see TATL flights as United expands to Europe". Ch-aviation. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[8] "AeroItalia presenta i nuovi voli da Palermo e Catania per Roma". 15 February 2023.

[9] "AeroItalia: nuovo volo stagionale Bergamo – Palermo". 21 March 2023.

[10] "Air Serbia unveils first set of new routes for next summer".

[11] "Direktor Zračne luke Mostar najavio čarter letove iz Poljske, Italije, Jordana". 25 April 2022.

[Easyjet_Additions-12] "EASYJET NS23 NETWORK ADDITIONS SUMMARY – 30JAN23". Aeroroutes. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.

[13] "Summer 2023: Norwegian launches more than twenty new routes from Denmark and Norway". 17 November 2022.

[14] "Ryanair apre il Parma-Palermo". 8 December 2022.

[15] "Biuro podróży ITAKA | Wakacje - wycieczki i wczasy zagraniczne". www.itaka.pl.

[16] "THY'den yeni hat ve sefer artışı duyurusu". www.airporthaber.com. 28 December 2022.

[17] "VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avión a Europa". 28 November 2022.

[18] "VOLOTEA - Vuelos baratos, ofertas y billetes de avión a Europa". 18 October 2022.

[ASN240910-19] "EI-EDM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

[AH4315b792-20] Hradecky, Simon (24 September 2010). "Accident: Windjet A319 at Palermo on Sep 24th 2010, touched down short of runway". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

[21] "Falcone–Borsellino Airport". Retrieved 6 February 2017.