Lamezia Terme International Airport ( it, link=no, Aeroporto Internazionale di Lamezia Terme "Sant'Eufemia") is an airport in the
Sant'Eufemia district of
Lamezia Terme
Lamezia Terme (), commonly called Lamezia, is an Italian city and ''comune'' of 70,452 inhabitants (2013), in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region.
Geography
Lamezia is located on the eastern border of the coastal plain commonly cal ...
,
Calabria, Italy.
It is the principal airport of Calabria. Additionally, a
military helicopter unit, the 2° Reggimento dell'Aria "Sirio", is based near the airport.
History
In 1965, a consortium, CONSAER, was formed to build a new airport near the motorway, the railway and the port of
Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Italy), on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port, situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in t ...
; level ground near Lamezia
Terme
Terme (formerly spelled ''Termeh''; Ancient Greek: Thèrmae, Θέρμαι) is the seat of Terme District, Samsun Province, Turkey. Terme is located on Terme River, about 5 km from its mouth, on the eastern end of the Çarşamba Plain.
Term ...
was chosen as the site. The airport opened in June 1976. Its
IATA airport code SUF derives from the name Sant'Eufemia.
Itavia
Itavia was an Italian airline founded in 1958. During the 1960s it became one of the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the destruction of Flight 870, also known as the Ustica disaster. Itavia was hea ...
began scheduled flights to
Rome-Fiumicino,
Milan-Linate
Milan Linate Airport is the third international airport of Milan, the second-largest city and largest urban area of Italy, behind Malpensa Airport and Orio al Serio Airport. It served 9,233,475 passengers in 2018, being the fifth busiest airp ...
,
Catania and
Palermo in December of that year. The airport was expanded and modernised in 1982.
Since 1990 it has been managed by SACAL SpA, which is jointly owned by various local government administrations and by private investors.
A contract to extend the runway from the current 2,414 m to 3,000 m was awarded on 27 December 2007. A design competition for a new passenger terminal to replace the present building was held in November 2008, and was won by Engco.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Lamezia Terme Airport:
Statistics
References
External links
Official Homepage from Società Aeroportuale Calabrese*
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Airports in Italy
Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...
Transport in Calabria
Buildings and structures in the Province of Catanzaro