Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport

Trieste – Friuli
Venezia Giulia Airport

Aeroporto di Trieste–Friuli Venezia Giulia

IATA: TRSICAO: LIPQ

TRS
Location of the airport in Italy

Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aeroporto FVG S.p.A.
Serves Trieste
Location Ronchi dei Legionari, Italy
Elevation AMSL 39 ft / 12 m
Coordinates 45°49′39″N 013°28′20″E / 45.82750°N 13.47222°E / 45.82750; 13.47222 (Friuli Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport)Coordinates: 45°49′39″N 013°28′20″E / 45.82750°N 13.47222°E / 45.82750; 13.47222 (Friuli Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport)
Website aeroporto.fvg.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 741,776
Passenger change 14–15 Increase 0.2%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (IATA: TRS, ICAO: LIPQ) (Italian: Aeroporto di Trieste–Friuli Venezia Giulia), formerly Trieste – Ronchi dei Legionari Airport, is an international airport located 0.3 NM (0.56 km; 0.35 mi) west of Ronchi dei Legionari (Province of Gorizia),[1] near Trieste in Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy. The airport has a catchment area of approximately 5 million people, stretching beyond Friuli-Venezia Giulia into Slovenia and Croatia.

History

The first official documents citing the airfield of Ronchi dei Legionari date back to 30 November 1935, when the 4th Fighter Wing of the Royal Italian Air Force was based here. Commercial operations officially began on 2 December 1961.

Aeroporto Friuli Venezia Giulia S.p.A. is the company that has been running the airport since July 1997; its shareholders are the Consorzio per l'Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia – a consortium of local authorities and municipalities – (51%) and the Friuli – Venezia Giulia Region (49%). In recent years the airport has witnessed an increase in low-cost routes and cargo aircraft. In addition to this, the Company aims at developing non-aviation activities at the airport. The "Polo Intermodale" project is part of this planned expansion, that envisages the development of a multi-modal (air-road-rail) interchange that will be built in the near future just in front of the airport terminal.

In 2007 the airport was renamed Friuli – Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport, in honor of the 19th-century humanitarian explorer of Africa known in English as Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, namegiver of Brazzaville.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia
operated by Alitalia CityLiner
Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia
operated by Mistral Air
Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine
Munich
RyanairBari, London-Stansted, Trapani, Valencia
Volotea Seasonal: Naples[3]
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

References

External links

Media related to Trieste Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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