Rome Fiumicino Airport
Fiumicino, Rome, Lazio region, Vatican City
- IATAFCO
- ICAOLIRF
- Serves
- Fiumicino, Rome, Lazio region, Vatican City
- Operator
- Aeroporti di Roma
- Owner
- Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
- Opened
- 15 January 1961
- Elevation
- 15 ft (5 m)
- Runways
- 3 (longest 3,902 m)
- Airlines based here
- ITA Airways, Poste Air Cargo
About the airport
Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto internazionale di Roma-Fiumicino "Leonardo da Vinci") (IATA: FCO, ICAO: LIRF) is an international airport in Fiumicino, Italy, serving Rome, its metropolitan area, Vatican City and the wider Lazio region. It is the busiest airport in the country, the eighth-busiest airport in Europe and the world's 40th-busiest airport with over 50 million passengers served in 2025. It covers an area of 16 km2 (6.2 sq mi). Fiumicino serves as the main hub for ITA Airways, the Italian flag carrier and the largest airline in the country, and Poste Air Cargo. It was previously the hub for Alitalia, the defunct airline that was Italy's largest and main flag carrier. It is also an operating base for several other airlines, such as Aeroitalia, easyJet, Neos, Ryanair, Vueling and Wizz Air. The airport is managed by Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), part of the Italian transport holding company Mundys. Opened in 1961, it is in Fiumicino, 30 km (19 mi) south of Rome, and is named for Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Reproductions of his most famous works and inventions are displayed at the airport.
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.