Rome Fiumicino Airport in the context of "Poste Air Cargo"

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⭐ Core Definition: Rome Fiumicino Airport

Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport (Italian: Aeroporto internazionale di Roma-Fiumicino "Leonardo da Vinci") (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF) is an international airport in Fiumicino, Italy, serving Fiumicino, Rome, its metropolitan city, the Lazio region and the Vatican City. It is the busiest airport in the country, the eighth-busiest airport in Europe and the world's 39th-busiest airport with over 49.2 million passengers served in 2024. It covers an area of 16 km (6.2 sq mi).

Fiumicino serves as the main hub for ITA Airways, the Italian flag carrier and the largest airline in the country, and Poste Air Cargo. It was previously the hub for Alitalia, the defunct airline that was Italy's largest and main flag carrier. It is also an operating base for several other airlines, such as AeroItalia, easyJet, Neos, Ryanair, Vueling and Wizz Air.

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Rome Fiumicino Airport in the context of Vueling

Vueling S.A. (/ˈvwɛlɪŋ/ VWEL-ing, Spanish: [ˈbwelin]) is a Spanish low-cost airline based in Viladecans in Greater Barcelona with operating bases in Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain (main), Paris Orly Airport in France, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, London Gatwick Airport in the UK, and Rome Fiumicino Airport in Italy (secondary). It is the largest airline in Spain as measured by fleet size and number of destinations. As of 2021, Vueling serves 122 destinations in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and carried more than 34 million passengers in 2019. Since 2013, it has been an operating company of International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, and Aer Lingus.

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Rome Fiumicino Airport in the context of ITA Airways

Italia Trasporto Aereo S.p.A. (pronounced [iˈtaːlja traˈspɔrto aˈɛːreo]), doing business as ITA Airways (pronounced [ˈiːta] EE-tah), is the flag carrier of Italy. It is owned by the government of Italy, via the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and Lufthansa Group.

The airline was founded in 2020 as a successor to the bankrupt Alitalia. The airline flies to over 70 scheduled domestic, European, and intercontinental destinations. Its main hub is the Rome Fiumicino Airport and a focus city is Milan Linate Airport. In 2025, ITA Airways announced that the airline will be ending its membership in SkyTeam to join Star Alliance in 2026, as part of the airline's integration into the Lufthansa Group.

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Rome Fiumicino Airport in the context of AeroItalia

Aeroitalia SRL is an Italian airline. It operates a fleet of Boeing 737s and ATR 72s from operating bases in Bergamo, Comiso and Rome–Fiumicino.

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Rome Fiumicino Airport in the context of Malpensa Airport

Milan Malpensa Airport (IATA: MXP, ICAO: LIMC) is an international airport in Ferno, in the Province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy. It is the largest airport in northern Italy, serving Lombardy, Piedmont, and Liguria, as well as the Swiss canton of Ticino. The airport is located 49 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Milan, next to the Ticino river dividing Lombardy and Piedmont. The airport is located inside the Parco Naturale Lombardo Della Valle Del Ticino, a nature reserve included by UNESCO in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The airport was opened in 1909 by Giovanni Agusta and Gianni Caproni to test their aircraft prototypes, before switching to civil operation in 1948.

Malpensa Airport is ninth in the world and sixth in Europe for the number of countries served with direct flights. In 2024, Malpensa Airport handled 28.5 million passengers and was the 22nd-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers and second-busiest airport in Italy in terms of passengers after Rome Fiumicino Airport. It is the busiest airport in Italy for freight and cargo, handling over 730,000 tons of international freight annually (2024).

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