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Cagliari Elmas Airport
Internazionale "Mario Mameli"
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorSo.G.Aer. S.p.A.
ServesCagliari, Sardinia
Ryanair
Elevation AMSL13 ft (4.0 m)
Coordinates39°15′05.29″N 09°03′15.42″E / 39.2514694°N 9.0542833°E / 39.2514694; 9.0542833
WebsiteOfficial website
Map
CAG is located in Sardinia
CAG
CAG
Location of the airport in Sardinia
CAG is located in Italy
CAG
CAG
CAG (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,804 9,199 Asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers5,254,433
Passenger change 24-25Increase 1.8%
Aircraft movements40,752
Movements change 24-25Increase 2.0%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

Cagliari Elmas Airport (IATA: CAG, ICAO: LIEE) is an international airport located in the territory of Elmas, near Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia.

History

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Check-in hall

The airport opened on 3 May 1937.[2] It was named in 1937 after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot from the fascist-era Italian airforce shot down in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The airport was upgraded in 2003 and the terminal was expanded and provided with 6 jetbridges for passenger boarding, with a capacity of 4 million passengers per year. In 2018, the airport handled 4,370,014 passengers.[citation needed]

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Cagliari Elmas Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
AeroitaliaCuneo,[3] Milan–Linate,[4] Rome–Fiumicino[4]
Seasonal: Alghero,[5] Bologna,[5] Catania,[6] Florence,[5] Lamezia Terme,[5] Olbia,[5] Pisa[5]
Air FranceSeasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[7]
AlbaStarSeasonal: Milan-Bergamo[8]
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna[9]
British AirwaysSeasonal: London–Gatwick[9]
easyJetBasel/Mulhouse,[10] Geneva,[11] Milan–Malpensa Paris–Orly[11]
Seasonal: Bordeaux,[12] Lyon,[9] Naples, Nice[12]
Edelweiss AirSeasonal: Zürich[9]
EurowingsSeasonal: Düsseldorf,[9] Hamburg,[9] Salzburg,[13] Stuttgart[9]
IberiaSeasonal: Madrid[7]
KLMSeasonal: Amsterdam[7]
LufthansaSeasonal: Frankfurt,[7] Munich[7]
LuxairSeasonal: Luxembourg[9]
Luxwing Seasonal charter: Aosta[14]
Marathon AirlinesSeasonal charter: Innsbruck[15]
NeosSeasonal: Bologna,[16] Milan–Malpensa,[7] Verona[16]
RyanairBari,[16] Bologna,[16] Budapest,[9] Catania,[16] Brussels-Charleroi,[9] Cuneo,[16] Genoa,[16] Kraków,[9] London–Stansted,[9] Malta,[9] Milan–Malpensa,[16] Naples,[16] Nuremberg,[9] Palermo,[16] Paris-Beauvais,[9] Parma,[16] Pisa,[16] Porto,[9] Rimini,[16] Rome–Ciampino,[16] Seville,[9] Stockholm–Arlanda,[9] Turin,[16] Valencia,[9] Venice,[16] Verona[16]
Seasonal: Carcassonne,[9] Dublin,[9] Forlì,[17] Gothenburg,[9] Frankfurt-Hahn,[9] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[9] Madrid,[9] Palma de Mallorca,[9] Milan-Bergamo,[16] Perugia,[16] Pescara,[18] Poznań,[9] Trieste,[16] Vienna,[9] Weeze[9]
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal: Copenhagen[9]
SkyAlpsSeasonal: Bolzano[7]
SmartwingsSeasonal: Prague[9]
Sundor Seasonal: Tel Aviv[19]
TransaviaSeasonal: Paris–Orly[7]
VoloteaFlorence,[20] Marseille,[9] Venice,[21] Verona[22]
VuelingBarcelona[9]
Wizz Air Milan–Malpensa (begins 14 December 2026),[23] Venice (begins 14 December 2026)[24]

Statistics

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PassengersYear1,500,0002,000,0002,500,0003,000,0003,500,0004,000,0004,500,0005,000,0005,500,0001995200020052010201520202025PassengersAnnual passenger traffic

Ground transportation

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The airport is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Cagliari city centre. A railway station serving the airport enables connections to most Sardinian towns.

Accidents and incidents

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  • On September 14, 1979, Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12, a DC-9-32 crashed in the mountains near Cagliari, Italy while approaching Cagliari-Elmas Airport. All 27 passengers and 4 crew members died in the crash and ensuing fire.[25]

References

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  1. ↑ "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com. 4 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Cagliari-Airport.com. "Cagliari Airport - Cagliari International Airport Elmas (CAG)". www.cagliari-airport.com.
  3. ↑ "Aeroitalia inaugura la Cuneo-Cagliari". 21 December 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Continuità territoriale aerea, biglietti in vendita per cinque rotte. L'assessora Barbara Manca: "Al via il nuovo servizio, con tariffe più basse e più frequenze"". 9 February 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tre nuove rotte da Cagliari per Alghero, Lamezia e Olbia". 23 March 2026.
  6. ↑ "Aeroitalia vuole prendere (quasi) tutto: 5 rotte su 6 in continuità per il 2026". CagliariToday (in Italian). 28 January 2026. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dominici, Laura (23 May 2026). "The new summer destinations of 32 airlines". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Lassetter, Jon (20 May 2022). "New Route of the Day (13 May 2022): AlbaStar between Milan BGY and Dakar". Air Service One. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Porcu, Mattia (25 March 2025). "Cagliari Airport, here are all the routes served during summer 2025". The Flight Club. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "easyJet offre molti sviluppi". Italiavola.com (in Italian). 11 June 2025.
  11. 1 2 "EasyJet, nuove rotte invernali da Cagliari: collegamenti con Parigi Orly e Ginevra" (in Italian). 7 July 2026.
  12. 1 2 Italiavola, Pubblicato da (22 January 2026). "easyJet lancia 5 rotte dall'Italia". Italiavola & Travel (in Italian). Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  13. ↑ "Salzburg: Eurowings and Eurotours expand their offerings to include new Mediterranean destinations". 20 January 2026.
  14. ↑ "Aosta : ripartono i voli con Valtravel e Gattinoni". Italiavola.com (in Italian). 21 March 2026.
  15. ↑ "Marathon Airlines assumes Idealtours-charter". aviation.direct (in German). 7 December 2022.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Scopri i voli dell'estate 2024 da e per Cagliari!". www.paradisola.it. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  17. ↑ Italiavola, Pubblicato da (25 February 2026). "Il nuovo piano rotte Ryanair in Emilia Romagna. Chi cresce e chi…". Italiavola & Travel (in Italian). Retrieved 26 February 2026.
  18. ↑ "Ryanair investe su Pescara. 5 nuove rotte" [Ryanair invests on Pescara: 5 new routes]. Italiavola.com (in Italian). 14 January 2025.
  19. ↑ "El Al lancia 9 destinazioni. Due in Italia". Italiavola & Travel (in Italian). 9 February 2026. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  20. ↑ Seppone, Nicola (11 April 2023). "Volotea inaugurates flights from Bari, Cagliari and Palermo to Florence. From Puglia new route to Barcelona". The Flight Club. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  21. ↑ "Volotea, la summer si apre con Parigi. Ecco tutte le destinazioni dai tre scali". La Nuova Sardegna (in Italian). 20 January 2025. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Lisi, Monica (5 June 2023). "Volotea has launched new Berlin-Verona flights". Retrieved 10 July 2026.
  23. ↑ "Wizz Air apre tre rotte da Milano e arriva il 12esimo aereo" [Wizz Air opens three new routes from Milan and adds its 12th aircraft to the base]. italiavola.com (in Italian). 30 July 2026.
  24. ↑ "Wizz Air ritorna a Cagliari" [Wizz Air returns to Cagliari]. italiavola.com (in Italian). 30 July 2026.
  25. ↑ "ASN Aircraft Accident description of the 14 SEP 1979 accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 I-ATJC at Sarroch". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. 21 February 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
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