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Catania Fontanarossa Airport

Catania-Vincenzo Bellini Airport is 4.3 km southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is the busiest airport on Sicily and the sixth busiest international airport in Italy handing around six million passengers p/a. In terms of domestic traffic it ranks in third place, after Fiumicino Airport (Rome) and Linate Airport (Milan).

Location of Catania Fontanarossa Airport, Italy

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European airports enjoy solid recovery in 2010 – Italy performs well

9-Feb-11 3:59 PM

European airports had a reasonably positive year in 2010, generating a 4.2% increase in passenger throughput, despite bouts of extreme weather, labour unrest, passenger taxation in some markets and lingering economic problems in many parts of the continent. Freight traffic recovered by 18.7% last year (off depressed levels in 2009), while aircraft movements were flat (dropping 0.2%).

SEA IPO by end 2011, but are the signs better this time?

14-Dec-10 10:53 AM

Milan’s SEA SpA plans to launch an IPO on the Italian stock exchange by the end of 2011 according to Chairman Giuseppe Bonomi. The airport operator will make a final decision on the offering once main owner, the City of Milan, approves its annual accounts.

Lufthansa Italia consolidates its position at Milan Malpensa

27-Jul-10 11:57 AM

Lufthansa Italia this month announced plans to launch frequent (up to daily) services from Milan’s Malpensa Airport to Catania (Sicily) and Prague from 01-Nov-2010, using A319s. These are not easy routes on which to win business with considerably more offered on the Catania route from Alitalia’s Air One subsidiary, Windjet and easyJet, and to Prague from CSA and easyJet. Less than two years after Lufthansa’s interest in taking over the ailing Alitalia fizzled out when Air France purchased a stake, prompting Lufthansa to set up its own new brand, Lufthansa Italia, at Milan, what are the prospects now for Lufthansa’s first new airline that it had set up in a foreign market?

Ryanair tops European seat capacity in Apr-2010. LCCs have largest market share at 34%. Top routes

27-May-10 5:10 PM

A report "Capacity and Frequency Analysis for Intra-European Operations" by UK-based RDC Aviation makes some interesting points about capacity distribution in Europe. The top ten airlines in terms of seat capacity in Apr-2010 were headed by Ryanair with 7.3 million, a 13.3% increase, followed by Lufthansa (5.7 million +2.8%) and Air France (3.8 million -8.4%).

Charges in focus: New rules on EU airport charges

17-Jan-08 12:37 PM

The European Parliament this week adopted a Directive to set common (and therefore, hopefully more transparent) principles for calculating airport passenger taxes, to try to prevent any abuse of a dominant position in the market by individual airports.

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