Pisa International Airport

Pisa International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa) (IATA: PSA, ICAO: LIRP), also named Galileo Galilei Airport[3] is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers.[4] It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair.

Pisa International Airport

Aeroporto Internazionale di Pisa
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
OperatorAeronautica Militare Italiana / Toscana Aeroporti S.p.A.
ServesPisa, Italy
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL6 ft / 2 m
Coordinates43°41′02″N 010°23′33″E
Websitewww.pisa-airport.com
Map
PSA
Location in Italy
PSA
PSA (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04R/22L 2,993 9,819 Asphalt
04L/22R 2,792 9,160 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers5,387,558
Passenger change 18-19 -1,4%
Aircraft movements42,815
Movements change 18–19 -0.7%
Cargo (tons)13,005
Cargo change 18-19 +11.7%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Overview

The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed on December 15, 2013 to allow construction work to begin on a new fully automatic connection known as the Pisa Mover to take passengers to Pisa Central. The Pisa Mover came into operation on March 18, 2017. The airport has 5 passenger and 1 coach parking areas.[5]

Besides civilian operations, the airport is also used extensively by the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) and is a base for, amongst others, the C-130 Hercules and C-27J Spartan transport aircraft.[6] The airport is home to 46ª Brigata Aerea Silvio Angelucci (46th Air Brigade). During the end of World War II the airport was used as a base for the 15th Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces.

Facilities
Aerial view

The airport resides at an elevation of 6 feet (2 m) above mean sea level. It has 2 asphalt paved runways: 04R/22L measuring 3,002 by 45 metres (9,849 ft × 148 ft) and 04L/22R measuring 2,793 by 43 metres (9,163 ft × 141 ft).[7]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Air Albania Tirana (begins 13 July 2020)
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
Air Dolomiti Munich
Albawings Tirana
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Olbia
British Airways London–Heathrow
easyJet Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Pobeda Moscow–Vnukovo
Qatar Airways Doha
Ryanair Alghero, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin–Schönefeld, Brindisi, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Comiso, Dublin, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Manchester (begins 2 July 2020),[8] Marrakesh, Palermo, Prague, Seville, Tenerife–South, Valencia
Seasonal: Billund, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Fez, Frankfurt, Gdańsk, Glasgow–Prestwick, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Leeds, Rhodes, Trapani, Warsaw–Modlin
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Silver Air Elba
SkyUp Seasonal: Kiev–Boryspil
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Rotterdam
Turkish Airlines Seasonal: Istanbul
Volotea Seasonal: Bordeaux, Nantes, Olbia
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bucharest, Tirana

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation Bergamo, Bologna, Leipzig/Halle
FedEx Feeder Milan–Malpensa

Statistics

In 2006 and 2007, the airport was the fastest growing among Italy's top 15 airports with passenger numbers up 30% in 2006 and 24% in 2007. In 2008 it was Italy's 11th busiest airport handling 3,963,717 and 4,011,525 passengers in 2010. In 2011 the growth rise to 11.3% and the airport carried 4.526.723 passengers.[6]

Accidents and incidents
  • On 27 January 1952, Seaboard & Western Airlines Douglas C-54A-5-DO overshot the runway on landing. Fire consumed the aircraft. 47 out of the 50 cows carried on board the plane died.[9]
  • On 23 November 2009, Italian Air Force Lockheed KC-130J Hercules MM62176 of the based 46 Aerobrigata crashed just after take-off. All five crew members were killed.[10]

See also

References
  1. "EAD Basic - Error Page". www.ead.eurocontrol.int.
  2. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  3. "Presentazione Toscana Aeroporti - Toscana Aeroporti S.p.A." www.toscana-aeroporti.com.
  4. "Assaeroporti - Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  5. "Aeroporto Galileo Galilei - Sito ufficiale - Aeroporto di Pisa - The Official WebSite - Toscana - Pisa Airport Tuscany Aeroporto Airport Aeroporti Airports". Pisa-airport.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  6. "Pisa topping Italian airport growth rankings; Ryanair now serves 28 destinations". anna.aero. 19 September 2008.
  7. Airport information for LIRP Archived 13 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  8. "Ryanair Launches UK Summer 20 Schedule – More Than 500 Routes On Sale Now". corporate.ryanair.com.
  9. "ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-54A-5-DO (DC-4) N1512V Pisa Airport (PSA)". Aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  10. "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

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