Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda) (IATA: OLB, ICAO: LIEO) is an airport in Olbia, Sardinia. It was the primary operating base for Italian airline Air Italy whose headquarters were located at the airport. It mostly handles seasonal holiday flights from destinations in Europe and is managed by Geasar S.p.A.

Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

Aeroporto di Olbia-Costa Smeralda
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorGeasar S.p.A.
ServesOlbia
LocationOlbia, Italy
Elevation AMSL37 ft / 11 m
Coordinates40°53′09″N 09°31′01″E
Websitegeasar.it
Map
OLB
Location of airport in Sardinia
OLB
OLB (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 2,445 8,025 Concrete / asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers2,978,769
Passenger change 18–19 -0.7%
Aircraft movements34,086
Movements change 18–19 -1.4%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

History
Terminal building and control tower
Departure gate area

A military airfield was opened at Olbia (then Terranova Pausania) in 1921, and a seaplane base was inaugurated close to the Isola Bianca harbour in 1927, although poor loads from the island on the flights to Ostia and Cagliari led to the service's stop in Terranova being discontinued in 1929. The airfield and seaplane base were targeted by Allied bombing in World War II, and the Germans opened another airfield 4.5 miles west of the town, which was renamed Olbia in 1945.

Commercial flights gradually returned and in 1963, the Olbia-based airline Alisarda was formed. It successfully expanded its route network, introducing jet flights in 1972, and it was renamed Meridiana in 1991. However, the introduction of jet aircraft necessitated the building of a larger airport nearer the city; the current airport was completed in 1974.

Following three years of work, a new terminal covering 42,000 square metres and capable of handling 4.5 million passengers per year, was unveiled on 6 June 2004. Costing a total of €81 million, the structure was designed by Willem Brouwer Architects and incorporated the original terminal building, which was developed into a 3000-square metre retail area. The new building has 40 check-in desks and ten boarding gates, five of which are equipped with jet bridges. It contains a wide variety of shops and restaurants, a wine bar, a small art gallery, and indoor garden areas featuring local flora.

The airport also is home to the Tourist Management department of the University of Sassari.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Olbia:[3][4]

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
AlitaliaMilan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Bologna, Genoa, Naples, Pisa
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British AirwaysSeasonal: London–Heathrow
Brussels AirlinesSeasonal: Brussels
Condor Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld (begins 28 June 2020),[5] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich
Corendon Airlines Europe Seasonal: Hannover (begins 28 June 2020),[6] Nuremberg[7]
DATSeasonal: Catania
easyJetLondon–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel, Bordeaux (begins 22 June 2020),[8] Bristol, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Nantes, Naples, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Toulouse, Venice
easyJet SwitzerlandSeasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss AirSeasonal: Zürich
Enter AirSeasonal charter: Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław (all begin 21 June 2020)[9]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Salzburg, Stuttgart
Helvetic Airways Seasonal charter: Bern, Zürich
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
People's Seasonal charter: Vienna
Private Wings Seasonal charter: Aosta[10]
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings Seasonal: Bratislava, Prague
Smartwings Poland Seasonal charter: Katowice,[11] Poznań,[11] Warsaw–Chopin[11]
Sundair Seasonal charter: Paderborn
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva
Transavia Amsterdam
Transavia FranceSeasonal: Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
VoloteaBologna (begins 3 July 2020),[12] Verona
Seasonal: Ancona, Bari, Bordeaux, Genoa, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Palermo, Pescara (begins 6 July 2020),[13] Pisa, Strasbourg, Turin, Trieste (begins 6 July 2020),[14] Venice
Vueling Barcelona

References
  1. "EAD Basic - Error Page". ead.eurocontrol.int.
  2. "Traffic data 2019" (PDF). assaeroporti.com.
  3. https://www.geasar.it/cms_data/contents/geasar_en/media/docs/network_summer_2019_29_03.pdf
  4. https://www.geasar.it/Cms_Data/Contents/geasar_it/Media/docs/timetable/TIMETABLE/Network-2018-20_winter.pdf
  5. Liu, Jim (7 January 2020). "Condor S20 Short-Haul network additions as of 06JAN20". routesonline.com.
  6. Liu, Jim. "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. "Flights to Nuremberg". corendonairlines.com.
  8. https://www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr/informations-actualites/du-nouveau-avec-easyjet-4-destinations-supplementaires
  9. "Charter flights". tui.pl.
  10. https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/76505-aosta-and-ingolstadt-to-see-scheduled-charter-flights-in-s19
  11. "air and charter tickets". itaka.pl.
  12. https://www.cagliaripad.it/454860/trasporti-collegamento-aereo-bologna-olbia-dal-3-luglio-con-volotea/
  13. Liu, Jim. "Volotea outlines post-COVID 19 network expansion in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  14. https://www.ilfriuli.it/articolo/viaggi/tre-nuove-destinazioni-per-trieste-airport-e-volotea/11/220346

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