Falcone–Borsellino Airport

Falcone–Borsellino Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ) (Italian: Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, 19 NM (35 km; 22 mi) west northwest 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 5,325,559 passengers handled in 2016.

History

Early years

GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of "Falcone e Borsellino" Airport in Palermo. 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 August 2014, Air One announced the closure of their operations which included the shutdown of their Palermo base on 30 September 2014.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines
operated by Olympic Air
Seasonal: Athens (begins 14 June 2018)
Air Malta Malta
Alitalia Milan-Linate, Rome–Fiumicino, Naples
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Alitalia
operated by Alitalia CityLiner
Naples
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia
Seasonal charter: Belgrade
British Airways London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Condor Seasonal Frankfurt
easyJet London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa
Seasonal: Lyon, Paris-Orly
easyJet Switzerland Geneva
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Bordeaux, Wrocław, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Europe Airpost Seasonal charter: Deauville, Lyon, Metz, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings Munich
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Air Dolomiti
Munich
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine
Frankfurt
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Meridiana Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, New York–JFK
Mistral Air Lampedusa, Pantelleria
Seasonal: Pescara, Sofia
Seasonal charter: Marseille
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Budapest (begins 29 October 2017), London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan-Malpensa (begins 29 October 2017), Nuremberg, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Treviso, Turin, Verona, Weeze, Wroclaw
Seasonal: Bucharest, Dublin
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Zürich
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Charter: Brussels
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam, Rotterdam (begins 4 April 2018)
Transavia France Seasonal: Paris-Orly
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Seasonal charter: Brest, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
Travel Service Seasonal charter: Deauville, Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Travel Service Slovakia Seasonal charter: Bratislava
Tunisair
operated by TunisAir Express
Tunis
Volotea Bari, Genoa, Naples, Turin, Venice, Verona
Seasonal: Ancona (begins 26 May 2018), Athens, Bordeaux, Corfu, Heraklion, Ibiza, Málaga, Nantes, Nice, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (begins 27 June 2018) , Santorini, Split (begins 27 June 2018) , Strasbourg, Toulouse, Zakynthos (begins 26 July 2018)
Vueling Barcelona, Florence, Rome-Fiumicino

Accidents and incidents

  • On 5 May 1972, Alitalia Flight 112
  • On 23 December 1978, Alitalia Flight 4128
  • 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, 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. Around 20 passengers were injured in the evacuation.

Ground transport

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.

See also

  • Catania Fontanarossa Airport Vincenzo Bellini – Sicily's major international airport.
  • Trapani Birgi Airport Vincenzo Florio – another of Sicily's international airports
  • Comiso Airport Vincenzo Magliocco – another of Sicily's international airports
  • List of airports in Italy

External links

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Larissa Chirukhina
4 August 2013
Small, but nice. Comfortable and convenient. Nice food and coffee in bars. And I got a wonderful Mandarina Duck wallet in duty free half price :)
Ollie Martin
9 August 2014
There are 3 places to eat before security, but only one after (there are two small cafés, one downstairs and one through passport control, but they have a smaller selection of the same sandwiches)
Jeena James
8 September 2015
The best way to get to Palermo city is to take the Prestia e Comande bus right outside the airport. Takes about 30-40 mins and worth 1/10th the cost of a taxi
Tomáš P
28 October 2018
One of the prettiest airports with giant rock mountain right next to it. The selection of shops and restaurants is very poor.
Michael B.
8 August 2018
Great airport! Lots of restaurants and cafés and some nice stores. Great tax free store. Café at arrival too.
Joon Kim
16 June 2018
If you are returning rent car and need to fill petrol full, make sure the gas station is 5 kilos away from the airport.
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