Marina di Campo Airport

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Marina di Campo Airport
Aeroporto di Marina di Campo
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IATA: EBAICAO: LIRJ
EBA is located in Italy
EBA
EBA
Location of airport in Italy
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Alatoscana S.p.A
Serves Marina di Campo
Location Elba, Italy
Elevation AMSL 31 ft / 9 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website elba-airport.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 1,197[1] 3,114 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[2][3]

Marina di Campo Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Marina di Campo ) (IATA: EBAICAO: LIRJ) is the airport of the Italian island of Elba,[4] located in the area of "La Pila", in Marina di Campo. It is also known as Teseo Tesei Airport (Italian: Aeroporto "Teseo Tesei" ). It is the third airport of Tuscany in terms of passengers after Pisa International Airport and Florence Peretola Airport and serves as a focus city of Silver Air.

History

Opened as a grass airstrip in 1963, the airport was taken over by Milan-based company Transair in 1966 and was developed to handle commercial traffic, with regional airline Transavio flying Britten-Norman Islanders and Piaggio P.166 aircraft to Pisa, Milan and Florence, although a tarmac runway was not opened until 1991. Transavio folded in 1990, but several other regional airlines including InterSky, Silver Air and Air Alps started operations in the following years. A new terminal was opened in 2013, with the old building remaining as a cafeteria, shopping centre and offices.

Airlines and destinations

Silver Air's LET L-410 at Marina di Campo Airport
Airlines Destinations
Air Glaciers Seasonal charter: La Chaux-de-Fonds,[5] Sion
Silver Air[6] Florence, Pisa
Seasonal: Lugano, Milan-Linate
SkyWork Airlines Seasonal: Bern

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