Ciampino Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Roma-Ciampino) or Giovan Battista Pastine Airport (IATA: CIA, ICAO: LIRA) is a joint civilian, commercial and military airport near Rome in Italy. The airport is situated 15 km south-west Rome downtown, just outside the Greater Ring Junction (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare) the circular motorway around the central city. Until 1960 Ciampino was the main airport of Rome, before the construction of Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Fiumicino. It actually serves both as military airbase and commercial air traffic airport. Due to the growth of low-cost airlines such as Ryanair, Easyjet, Sterling, Hapag Lloyd Express, Wizz Air etc. Ciampino Airport became a popular alternative to the heavily congested Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO airport code (IPA pronunciation: ) is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet) is any of several old units of distance or length, measuring around a quarter to a third of a meter. ... The metre, or meter (US), is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Runway 13R/31L of El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá, D.C. Aerial picture of a runway of Chennai International Airport, Tamil Nadu A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can take off and land. ... A foot (plural: feet) is any of several old units of distance or length, measuring around a quarter to a third of a meter. ... The metre, or meter (US), is a measure of length. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO airport code (IPA pronunciation: ) is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... In times of armed conflict a civilian is any person who is not a combatant. ... Commerce is the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money between two or more entities. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15,1452 to May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter. ... Fiumicino is an Italian town, in which Leornardo Da Vinci airport is located. ... Ryanair (ISEQ: RYA, LSE: RYA, NASDAQ: RYAAY) is an Irish airline headquartered in Dublin. ... easyJet is a low cost airline officially known as easyJet Airline Company Limited, based at London Luton Airport. ... Sterling may refer to: Sterling (car), a British automobile manufacturer. ... Hapag-Lloyd Express is a no-frills, high-frequency German express airline. ... Wizz Air is a Polish/Hungarian low-cost airline focusing on the markets of Central Europe. ... Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF), also known as Fiumicino International Airport, is Italys largest airport, with over 29 million passengers in the year 2005. ...

Ciampino is quite small, due to the short distance from the city suburbs, but is one of the busiests airports in Italy. The total passenger traffic in 2005 rose 4.235.776 million (65,7% more than 2004, the higher rate of growth in Italy). There are plans to extend the total area of the terminals.

Ground Transportation

• COTRAL/Schiaffini [1] operate buses from outside the terminal building to Anagnina metro station, costing €1. A metro ticket to central Rome costs another €1.

• There are also buses at the same price to Ciampino local train station, from where a train to Rome Termini station costs €2. Train tickets must be bought from a newsagent and stamped before boarding the train. Both bus routes operate roughly every hour or 30 minutes during the Italian work day (8-12 and 16-20), and you should count on at least 45 minutes travel time for either route. Italian trains are notoriously late, and the metro can get very crowded.

• Schiaffini also run direct buses to Termini station for €5 one-way, taking 40 minutes, but with far fewer departures than Terravision (see below). These buses are not mentioned on the airport website yet, but you can find them on Schiaffini's own site.

• Terravision [2] run a direct bus service to Termini. The price is €8 one-way or €13.50 return, taking 40 minutes (about 20 services a day). Despite timing buses to connect with flights, they ask passengers on the return trip from Termini to board the bus 2.5 hours before their flight's departure time. Terravision also offers buses from Fiumicino airport to Termini, and a transfer bus between the two airports.

• BusShuttle run a similar service to Terravision. Their stop near Termini is about 20 metres up the road from Terravision's. Cost is €6 for a single.

• The price quote on a taxi ride to Termini may be as high as €80 though a fair price should be around €35-40. Always negotiate the total price including luggage supplements (tutto incluso) before boarding the taxi!

• Rental cars are available in the airport terminal from all the usual companies.

Airlines and destinations

• Blue Air (Bucharest-Baneasa)
• Centralwings (Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lodz)
• easyJet (Basel/Mullhouse, Belfast, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Dortmund, East Midlands, Geneva, London-Gatwick, Madrid [starts February 16, 2007], Newcastle, Paris-Orly)
• FlyMe (Gothenburg-Landvetter)
• HLX.com (Hanover)
• Lviv Airlines (Lviv)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo, Warsaw)
• Ryanair (Alghero, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Karlsruhe Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, London-Luton, Milan-Orio al Serio, Paris-Beauvais, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Treviso, Valencia, Verona, Weeze)
• Sterling (Billund, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
• Tarom Cargo
• Wizz Air (Bucharest-Baneasa, Budapest, Katowice, Targu Mures [starts January 15, 2007])

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External links

• Airports of Rome
• Schiaffini
• World Aero Data airport information for LIRA
• Street map from Multimap
• Satellite image from TerraServer