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Vincenzo Florio Airport
Vincenzo Florio Airport; Trapani-Birgi Airport; Birgi Airport
IATA: TPS – ICAO: LICT
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Location	Trapani
Elevation AMSL	25 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	37°54′43″N 012°29′36″E / 37.91194°N 12.49333°ECoordinates: 37°54′43″N 012°29′36″E / 37.91194°N 12.49333°E
Runways
	Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Vincenzo Florio Airport (IATA: TPS, ICAO: LICT), also known as Trapani-Birgi Airport and Birgi Airport, is an airport serving Trapani, Italy. It is one of the five airports in Sicily with civil purposes, but is also used for military issues. The base is used as one of the four forward operating bases (FOBs) used by the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control stationed out of NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen in Geilenkirchen, Germany. The airport is named after Sicilian wine industrialist and automobile enthusiast Vincenzo Florio.

Located 8 NM (15 km; 9.2 mi) south^[1] of Trapani, and inaugurated in the early 1960s, after a long period of inactivity the airport was relaunched by the Province of Trapani in 2003, and now it hosts several flights, included new low-cost connections.

With 533,310 passengers having passed through the airport in 2008, it is the third busiest airport of Sicily.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Meridiana	Pantelleria
Ryanair	Billund [begins 6 May], Bologna, Bratislava [begins 7 May], Brindisi, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari [begins 29 March], Eindhoven [begins 30 March], Genoa [begins 5 May], Gothenburg-City [begins 5 May], Girona, Ibiza [begins 4 May], Karlsruhe/Baden Baden [begins 7 May], Krakow [begins 4 May], London-Luton, Maastricht [begins 29 March], Madrid, Malta, Memmingen [begins 4 May], Milan-Orio al Serio, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Trieste [begins 30 May], Turin, Valencia [begins 5 May], Venice-Treviso