This is a list of airports in Sicily, grouped by type and sorted by location. On the island of Sicily there are six main airports and several smaller airfields catering to general aviation. There are also two small airports on the Sicilian islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria. In 2011 the airports of SicilyPassengers travelling via CTA, PMO and TPS only. collectively handled 13,257,369 passengers.

History

The first airfield to open on the island was

Catania Airport Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

in May 1924 followed by Palermo–Boccadifalco Airport that was opened on 28 June 1931. In the 1930s, during the Italian fascist era, several airfields such as

Trapani–Milo Airport Trapani–Milo Airport is a closed airport located at Milo, which was the first airport to serve the Sicilian city of Trapani, in Italy. Today it is used by the Italian Space Agency. History The airport was built during the 1930s and became the ...

(1936), Comiso Airport (1937),

Pantelleria Airport Pantelleria Airport is a regional airport on the Italy, Italian island of Pantelleria. It is located 5 km from the town centre and features both regular and charter flights from and to Sicily and mainland Italy. It was a military airport u ...

(1938) and

Ponte Olivo Airfield Ponte Olivo Airfield is an abandoned pre-World War II airport and later wartime military airfield in Sicily, 3 km north of Gela. Its last known use was by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force in 1944 during the Italian Campai ...

were built to control the Mediterranean Sea but during World War II all airfields on the islands were heavily bombarded by the British Royal Air Force based on Malta. The construction of

Trapani–Chinisia Airfield Borizzo Airfield (Trapani–Chinisia airport) is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which was located in the vicinity of Trapani on Sicily. History It was built in the 1930s near the village of ''Borgo Rizzo'' and used by A ...

was completed in 1949 and Trapani–Milo Airport was closed. In 1959 the American military took over the old airfield at Sigonella that had been abandoned since the end of the war. During the 1950s, Palermo's airport was the third-busiest airport by volume of traffic in Italy and construction for a bigger airport began. The new Palermo–Punta Raisi Airport opened in 1960. In 1961, with the completion of

Trapani–Birgi Airport Trapani–Birgi Airport ( it, link=no, Aeroporto Vincenzo Florio di Trapani-Birgi), is a military air base and public airport serving Trapani, in Sicily, Italy. Located between Trapani and Marsala, it is one of the five civil airports in Sicily. ...

commercial flights were moved to the new airport leaving only military activity at Trapani–Chinisia, which eventually closed altogether in 1970. In 1968 Lampedusa Airport was completed.

Airports

Many of the closed and some of the active airports were originally opened before

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and

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codes were used but each Italian airport had an ID number used by the Italian Regia Aeronautica to codify the airfield.

Active airports

Airport names shown in bold have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.

Former airports

Former water aerodromes

During the 1920s and 1930s flights were operated from the Sicilian water aerodromes of Siracusa and

Marsala Marsala (, local ; la, Lilybaeum) is an Italian town located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost part of Sicily. Marsala is the most populated town in its province and the fifth in Sicily. The town is famous for the docking of Gius ...

to the cities of Rome and Naples on the Italian mainland and to the cities of

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and

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in Libya, using seaplanes and

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. There was also a postal service from Palermo's harbour there to Naples and a passenger-service on the route Rome–Palermo–Tunis. Enna–Nicoletti Water Aerodrome, located on a lake in central Sicily, was opened in 2007 and closed the following year. {, class="wikitable sortable" ! style="text-align:left;" , Location ! style="text-align:left; width:5em;" ,

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Notes

Airports in Sicily