Leonardo da Vinci International Airport - Rome
Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, also commonly known as Fiumicino International Airport, is one of the largest public airports found in Italy with more than 30 million passengers having flown from there in 2006 alone. Starting off in 1956 and ending off in 1961, the airport went through a series of opening and since then has been worked on several times as the airport has grown in capacity. The airport was named after the famous Leonardo da Vinci and can be found in Fiumicino from where it serves the whole of Rome.
From the historic city center of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci airport is about 34 kilometers or 21 miles long by car. It is also accessible by train, which is available at the airport terminal as well as by cab but that can be quite expensive. The Leonardo Express trains runs twice an hour for twenty-four hours to the Termini Station in Rome. The regional trains leave the station every fifteen minutes but will stop at all the train stations between the city center and the airport making the journey so much longer.
There are three runways used at the Leonardo da Vinci airport all of which are paved are between 3,309 and 3,900 meters long. Aeroporti di Roma provided all the ground handling services for the airport up until 1999 when it formed the Aeroporti di Roma Handling. This new ground-handling group looks after all the airlines excepting for Alitalia, which is still serviced by the original Aeroporti di Roma. At the moment Aeroporti di Roma handling is the largest handler of airlines in the sense of airlines handled by Alitalia aircraft. There are private handlers like ARE Group, ICTS Italia and Globeground Italia that only provide passenger assistance.
Airport Security provided for the airport is controlled and supervised by four main groups, Polizia di Stato, the Italian State Police, Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Customs Police and last of all by Aeroporti di Roma. Over the years there has been five or so attacks that have occurred at the airport and lives have been lost but on a whole the Leonardo di Vinci Airport is well looked after by the airport security.
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