Catania Airport

The Airport Vincenzo Bellini di Catania Fontanarossa is one of the six airports in Siciliy, and the second most important after Palermo. It’s just 6 kilometers from the city center of Catania. The Catania Airport is also in the top ten, looking at the ranking on the amount of passengers per year. The flights arriving and leaving here are generally to/from Italy, even if there are some going to Europe.

Catania Airport is really well connected with all Italy particularly to Naples, Fiumicino – Rome, Malpensa Milan, Linate Milan, Orio al Serio Airport (Bergamo), Venice, and Bologna. Moreover it’s connected to European cities such as London, Munich, Frankfort, Malta and Paris.

The full name of the airport is Airport Vincenzo Bellini di Catania Fontanarossa due to the fact that the Airport is localized in Fontanarossa a small town next to Catania. It’s dedicated to Vincenzo Bellini, a famous Italian musician, opera composer, during the beginning of 1800.   

The airport is present and inaugurated since the 1924 but it had a lot of problems and has never full efficient until the 2007. In that year it was dedicated to Vincenzo Bellini, even though most of the people would prefer another person like the famous pilot native Angelo D’Arrigo of Catania.

Even if this airport is quite small and with one terminal, in Catania Airport  are available all kind of services that you could need like Wi-Fi, hotels, lounges, shops, restaurants, bars and duty free shops. The most important service present in this airport is the car rental of Pepecar in Catania Airport, thanks to his search engine you can find the best car for your trip. Hiring a car it’s perfect if you want to have the best comfort and have your own timetable without bothering with the bad public transportation.