Cagliari Elmas Airport

Cagliari Elmas Airport (IATA: CAG, ICAO: LIEE) is an international airport located in the territory of Elmas, near Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia.

Cagliari Elmas Airport International "Mario Mameli" Aeroporto di Cagliari
IATA: CAG ICAO: LIEE
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Operator	So.G.Aer. S.p.A.
Serves	Cagliari, Sardinia
Focus city for	Ryanair Volotea
Elevation AMSL	13 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E
Website	Official website
Map
CAG Location of the airport in Sardinia Show map of Sardinia CAG CAG (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 4,396,594 Passenger change 21-22 59.6% Aircraft movements 37,740 Movements change 21-22 33.4%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

History

Check-in hall

The airport opened on 3 May 1937.^[2] It was upgraded in 2003 and the terminal was expanded and provided with 6 jetbridges for passenger boarding, with a capacity of 4 million passengers per year. In 2018, the airport handled 4,370,014 passengers. It was named in 1937 after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot from the fascist-era Italian airforce shot down in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Cagliari Elmas Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
AeroItalia	Milan–Linate,[3] Rome–Fiumicino[3] Seasonal: Catania (begins 14 June 2025)[4]
Air France	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[5]
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna[6]
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick[7][8]
easyJet	Milan–Malpensa[9] Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[10] Geneva,[10] Lyon,[11] Naples,[12] Paris–Orly[10]
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich[13]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[14] Hamburg,[14] Stuttgart[14]
Iberia	Seasonal: Madrid[15]
ITA Airways	Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino[16]
KLM	Seasonal: Amsterdam[17]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt,[18] Munich[18]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[19]
Marathon Airlines	Seasonal charter: Innsbruck[20]
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna,[10] Milan–Malpensa,[10] Verona[10]
Ryanair	Bari,[10] Beauvais,[10] Bergamo,[10] Bologna,[10] Budapest,[10] Catania,[10] Charleroi,[10] Cuneo,[10] Genoa,[21] Kraków,[10] London–Stansted,[22] Malta,[10] Milan–Malpensa,[23] Naples,[10] Nuremberg, Palermo,[10] Parma,[10] Pisa,[10] Porto,[10] Rimini,[10] Rome–Ciampino,[10] Seville,[10] Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 July 2025),[24] Turin,[10] Valencia,[10] Venice,[10] Verona[10] Seasonal: Carcassonne,[10] Dublin,[10] Gothenburg,[25] Hahn,[10] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[10] Madrid,[10] Palma de Mallorca,[10] Perugia,[10] Pescara (begins 2 June 2025),[26] Poznań,[10] Trieste,[27] Vienna,[10] Warsaw–Modlin,[10] Weeze[10]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 1 July 2025)[28]
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano[29]
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague[30]
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly[31]
Universal Air	Seasonal: Prague[32]
Volotea	Florence, Venice, Verona
Vueling	Barcelona[33]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at CAG airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

The airport is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Cagliari city centre. A railway station serving the airport enables connections to most Sardinian towns.

Accidents and incidents

• On September 14, 1979, Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12, a DC-9-32 crashed in the mountains near Cagliari, Italy while approaching Cagliari-Elmas Airport. All 27 passengers and 4 crew members died in the crash and ensuing fire.^[34]