The first airport in Italy and the state of the air transportation system in the country today

Almost a hundred airports are located in Italy, they are practically in all regions and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Lampedusa, Elba. Forty-seven of them are open to commercial traffic, others have purely military functions, some are focused only on private flights. According to a recent study conducted by the Chamber of Deputies, about 130 million people in the country are air passengers, of which fifty percent are concentrated in Rome and Milan. International airports in Italy in aggregate have not the highest rating in Europe. But in any case, flights are carried out regularly, and tickets to them are characterized by low cost. Also, direct charters are carried out. In general, in the first place in terms of the number of traffic and infrastructure development in Europe are airways in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Amsterdam.

The infrastructure of this industry is still being modernized for the time being. The fact is that its development for more than a hundred years has passed a complex and inconsistent path. The oldest airport in Italy was opened on April 15, 1909 in Centocella (the district of Rome). The first flight in the country was carried out by one of the Wright brothers, Wilbur, on the Flyer. An airport flight school was also established on the territory of the airport, and the first person to receive pilot training was a racing driver, officer of the Royal Navy, Mario Calderara.

Some of the current technical, political and cultural shortcomings have old roots that date back to the birth of aviation, into the creation and management of initial flights. At one time, the country experienced a deficit in highly professional specialists, capable of analyzing the technical structure at the development stage of the facilities, assessing how correctly their location, size, equipment preparedness for the construction, typical conditions (type of paving, soil stabilization , etc.) , To determine the location of the runways, the orientation of the infrastructure of flights.

Today the country has a national airline "Alitalia" and a few smaller ones, such as "Meridiana". The German "Lufthansa" has a branch with a center in Milan ( Italy airport Malpensa) and today is striving to become the main competitor of "Alitalia".

More than sixty percent of the aero nodes of the country are in the northern regions of the peninsula. The best air transport systems are the regions of Lombardy and Veneto. As a rule, small objects are located far from the city center. Passengers in them can count on the purchase of low-cost tickets (for companies-carriers there are very small tax collections). Among the most important heavenly moorings is the Italian airport of Linate, located near the center of Milan, seven kilometers away (accessible from the ring road to the east). Malpensa and Orio al Serio are further away from the city of the Virgin Mary, but are well connected with it and buses and commuter trains with large parking lots in the main centers. Among the cities of the northern and central part of the country, which have air transport systems: Ancona, Bologna, Brescia, Florence, Genoa, Rimini, Turin, Treviso, Trieste, Venice, Verona, Perugia, Pescara and Pisa.

For those who go on a business trip or holiday in one of the central regions of the country, the main Italian airport is Fiumicino or Leonardo da Vinci (thirty kilometers from Rome). Well suits the needs of passengers (at a low ticket price) and the air pier Ciampino (15 kilometers from the capital). Opened in 1916, it is one of the oldest operating ones. Aero-nodes in Sardinia (in Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia) serve hundreds of thousands of passengers every year.

The air harbors of the south of the country are in Naples, Bari, Palermo. Tickets for international flights from Naples are considered the cheapest. Offers the possibility of using charter flights, as well as numerous domestic and international routes at regular and low cost Bari airport. Italy - do not forget about this - covers even the largest and most important tourist island - Sicily, Sardinia. As a rule, their main air gate is located in close proximity to the most famous sea resorts in the country. The largest in the country in terms of passenger traffic is the Sicilian Fontanarossa, located near the city of Catania.