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Cagliari Elmas Airport lies on the southern coast of Sardinia in the territory of Elmas, a few kilometres northwest of Cagliari, and serves as the principal international gateway to the island. It offers a single long, lit, hard-surface runway equipped with ILS, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for both airline traffic and visiting simulator pilots. The field has operated continuously since 1937 and today handles substantial scheduled and charter traffic under a modernised terminal.
Cagliari Elmas Airport is an international airport situated in the territory of Elmas, close to the city of Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia. Known locally as Aeroporto Mario Mameli, it is the busiest airport on the island and the main air gateway to southern Sardinia, offering a single instrument-equipped runway that makes it a useful and interesting destination for a VFR or IFR flight in the simulator, combining airline operations with straightforward Mediterranean coastal approaches.
The airport sits in the Elmas district on the southern coast of Sardinia, adjacent to Cagliari, the regional capital. As a major international airport it lies within controlled airspace served by Cagliari Approach, and pilots operating in the vicinity should expect to be worked by approach control before being handed to the tower.
Cagliari Elmas has a single physical runway, 14/32, some 9,191 feet long with a hard surface and lit for night operations. An instrument landing system serves runway 32, giving a precision approach into the field from the northwest.
Cagliari Approach is available on 118.75 MHz, with Elmas Ground on 125.425 MHz and the tower on 120.6 MHz. A miscellaneous frequency of 123.1 MHz is listed for SAR. Runway 32 is served by an ILS, providing an instrument approach into the airport.
Cagliari Elmas Airport opened on 3 May 1937 and was named after Mario Mameli, a bomber pilot of the fascist-era Italian air force who was shot down. The airport has long served as Sardinia's principal gateway. On 14 September 1979, Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12, a DC-9-32, crashed in the mountains near Cagliari while on approach to the airport. The terminal was upgraded in 2003, with the expansion providing six jetbridges for passenger boarding and increasing capacity to around four million passengers a year; by 2018 the airport was handling over 4.37 million passengers annually.
Cagliari Elmas continues to operate as Sardinia's principal international airport, handling scheduled and charter services with a modern terminal complex. Its single long, lit runway with ILS on runway 32 supports year-round airline operations into and out of the island.