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Catania Airport is Sicily's busiest airport and Italy's 6th busiest airport, with nearly 9 million passengers each year. "The runway at Catania Airport is unusable due to the volcanic ash fall.
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (IATA: CTA, ICAO: LICC), also known as Vincenzo Bellini Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale Vincenzo Bellini di Catania-Fontanarossa), is an international airport 2.3 NM (4.3 km; 2.6 mi) southwest [1] of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily.
August 14, 2023 at 1:06 PM. CATANIA, Sicily (Reuters) -Flights serving the eastern Sicilian city of Catania were halted on Monday after an eruption from nearby Mount Etna, local authorities said ...
August 14, 2023 at 4:38 AM. ... Sicily’s Catania international airport, known as Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, is to remain closed until 8 p.m. local time on Monday following the eruption of ...
Sicily Airport may refer to one of the airports listed below. Catania International Airport, serving Catania; Comiso Vincenzo Magliocco Airport, near Ragusa; Palermo International Airport, serving Palermo; Palermo-Boccadifalco Airport, also serving Palermo, used for general aviation; Lampedusa Airport, serving the island of Lampedusa
The first airfield to open on the island was Catania Airport in May 1924 followed by Palermo–Boccadifalco Airport that was opened on 28 June 1931. In the 1930s, during the Italian fascist era, several airfields such as Trapani–Milo Airport (1936), Comiso Airport (1937), Pantelleria Airport (1938) and Ponte Olivo Airfield were built to control the Mediterranean Sea but during World War II ...
"The runway at Catania Airport is unusable due to the volcanic ash fall. Both arrivals and departures are suspended," the airport said in a statement, adding that operations were due to resume at ...
Etna erupted once again on 4 July 2024 causing the Catania Airport to close due to volcanic ash in the air. The airport reopened the next day. [64] [65] On August 14, 2024, Mt. Etna erupted violently sending an ash cloud 9.5km into the atmosphere. Catania Airport was forced to close the following day. [66]