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Friuli Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport
Friuli Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport; Trieste Ronchi dei Legionari Airport
	View of Trieste Airport
IATA: TRS – ICAO: LIPQ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeroporto FVG Spa
Serves	Trieste
Location	Ronchi dei Legionari
Elevation AMSL	39 ft / 12 m
Coordinates	45°49′39″N 013°28′20″E / 45.8275°N 13.47222°ECoordinates: 45°49′39″N 013°28′20″E / 45.8275°N 13.47222°E
Runways
	Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (IATA: TRS, ICAO: LIPQ), also known as Trieste Airport or Ronchi dei Legionari Airport, is an airport located in (0.3 NM (0.56 km; 0.35 mi) west^[1] Ronchi dei Legionari (Gorizia), near Trieste, the capital and largest city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, in north-eastern Italy. In 2007 it was renamed Friuli Venezia Giulia "Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà" Airport, in honor of the 19th-Century humanitarian explorer of Africa known in English and French as Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.

This airport has a catchment area of approximately 5 million people, stretching beyond Friuli-Venezia Giulia into Slovenia and Croatia. The airport is equipped to handle all major aircraft and in recent years has witnessed an increase in cargo aircraft. In 2008, Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport handled almost 1.1 million passengers.

[edit] History

The first official documents citing the airfield of Ronchi dei Legionari date back to November 30 1935, when the 4th Fighter Wing of the Royal Italian Air Force was based here.

Commercial operations officially began on 2 December 1961.

[edit] Getting there

The airport is just 1 km (0.62 mi) off the A4 Trieste-Venice motorway (Redipuglia exit). Long and short-stay car parks are available.

Monfalcone Railway Station - located some 5 km (3.1 mi) from the airport on the Trieste-Venice railway line - can be reached by Local Transport service APT Bus 10, running every 20/25 minutes.

The public transport company APT operates bus and coach services linking the airport with:

Gorizia: Coach 1 and other services in connection with Coach 51
Monfalcone: Bus 10
Udine: Coach 51 (also non-stop via the motorway)
Trieste: Coach 51

Tickets can be purchased at city bus/coach stations or at the airport: in the Arrivals Hall, with an automatic machine for selfticketing and at the Post Office.

At the Trieste Coach Station, bus and coach connections to Slovenia (Izola, Koper, Ljubljana, Piran, Portorož, Postojna, Sežana) and Croatia (Dubrovnik, Porec, Pula, Opatija, Rijeka, Rovinj, Split, Zadar) are available.

Taxis are available outside the Arrivals hall from 08.00 to 24.00.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Dolomiti	Olbia
Air France operated by Brit Air	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air One	Naples
Alitalia operated by Air One	Rome-Fiumicino
Belle Air	Tirana
Jat Airways	Belgrade
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti	Munich
Ryanair	Birmingham, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari, London-Stansted

[edit] The Company

Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia SpA is the Company that has been running the airport since July 1997; its shareholders are the Consorzio per l'Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia - a consortium of local authorities and municipalities - (51%) and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (49%).

Its mission is to:

improve the role of the airport within the international air transport network;
respond to the needs of the catchment area developing direct links to new destinations;
offer competitive airport services of high quality to Customers, i.e. airlines, passengers and freight forwarders;
plan and develop the airport infrastructures;
continuously update and upgrade systems and equipment keeping them at the highest international standards;

In addition to this, the Company aims at developing non-aviation activities at the airport. The project of the "Polo Intermodale" is part of this planned expansion, that envisages the development of a multi-modal (air-road-rail) interchange that will be built in the near future just in front of the airport terminal.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b EAD Basic

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Trieste Airport

Official Website (Italian) (English) (Slovene)
Information about Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport

[AIP-0] EAD Basic

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