Leonardo da Vinci Airport (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF) is an Italian intercontinental airport located in the municipality of Fiumicino, about 30 km west of the city center of Rome. With 43.5 million passengers in 2019, it is the first Italian airport in terms of number of passengers and the traffic of over 199,000 tons of goods, the second largest Italian cargo airport.
it is the hub of Alitalia and a secondary hub of Vueling, a low-cost airline. it is also the operational base of Alitalia CityLiner, Blue Panorama Airlines, Mistral Air, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Ryanair. In total 105 airlines operate from Leonardo da Vinci airport. Together with Ciampino Airport, it forms the Rome airport system with over 50 million annual passengers (2019), which is the largest in Italy and among the largest in Europe. Both airports are managed by the Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) company.
It currently has two terminals (T1 and T3) and three runways: the 16L / 34R and the 16R / 34L, separated from each other by 4000 m and mainly used for landings from the north, and the 07/25 used mainly for westbound take-offs, due to prevailing winds. [1] For the second consecutive year, the “Leonardo da Vinciâ € ?? through ACI (Airport Council International), it received the “Airport Service Quality Awardâ € ?? as the best airport in Europe for 2018 and 2019