Federico Fellini International Airport

Federico Fellini International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto Internazionale di Rimini e San Marino 'Federico Fellini'; IATA: RMI, ICAO: LIPR), formerly Rimini Miramare Airport, is an international airport located in Rimini, Italy.

Federico Fellini
International Airport

Aeroporto Internazionale di Rimini e San Marino 'Federico Fellini'
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAiRiminum
ServesRimini, San Marino
LocationMiramare di Rimini, Italy
Elevation AMSL40 ft / 12 m
Coordinates44°01′10″N 012°36′34″E
Websiteriminiairport.com
Map
RMI is located in Italy
RMI
RMI
Location in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 2,964 9,723 Concrete/asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers395,194
Passenger change 18–19Increase 28,3%
Aircraft movements4833
Movements change 18–19Increase 7,5%
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics from Assaeroporti[2]

The airport is located in the southern frazione of Miramare, 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) southeast of the city centre.[1] As well as serving the Province of Rimini, Federico Fellini International Airport is the main aerial gateway to the nearby independent Republic of San Marino. The airport is a crucial nexus in the local economy, particularly for tourists visiting the riviera romagnola.[3] Since 2015, Rimini Airport has been managed by AIRiminum 2014 SpA. It is named after Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, who was born in Rimini.

Facilities and operations

The airport is at an elevation of 12 metres (39 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,996 by 45 metres (9,829 ft × 148 ft).[1]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Rimini Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga
Albawings Seasonal: Tirana
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Djerba, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh
Ryanair Cagliari
Seasonal: Budapest, Kaunas, Kraków,[4] London–Stansted, Palermo, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin
Wizz Air Tirana

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at RMI airport. See Wikidata query.

Transport

Bus

As of 2023, the only bus stopping directly in front of the airport is Start Romagna SpA's Route 9, which connects the airport to Rimini's city centre, Rimini Fiera and either Santarcangelo di Romagna or San Vito. The route runs through Rimini's southern residential suburbs and the Colonella district, with stops including the city hospital, the Arch of Augustus, the civic cemetery, and Rimini's railway station.[5]

Route 124 stops near the airport on Viale Losanna, on the other side of the SS16 state road. The route connects the airport to Rimini's city centre, Riccione, and Morciano di Romagna.[5]

Metromare
See also: Metromare § Indirect airport connection

The airport is indirectly connected to the Metromare trolleybus rapid transit line that runs between the railway stations of Rimini and Riccione. The route's Miramare Airport stop is located 825 m (2,707 ft) by road away from the airport entrance. To reach the airport, passengers descending from the Metromare need to go south along the Via Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, past the roundabout with Viale Losanna/Viale Felice Carlo Pullè, then northwest along the busy SS16 Via Flaminia state road.[5] At the time of Metromare's launch, the SS16 could not be crossed by foot near the airport.[6] Instead, the route 9M bus connects the stop to the airport.[5]

The lack of a direct connection to the airport from Metromare has been criticised by local politicians.[7][8] In April 2023, Roberta Frisoni, Rimini's councillor for public transportation, argued that the variability of demand for a direct airport connection – dependent on the times of flights – meant that a shuttle connection between the Metromare stop and airport is more appropriate.[9][10] In September 2021, the municipal council approved a project that would allow pedestrians to reach the Metromare stop by lit segregated walkways and cross the SS16 by traffic lights.[6]

Train

The nearest railway stations to the airport are Rimini, Miramare and Riccione.

Road

Fellini Airport is located on the SS16 Via Flaminia state road, which runs along the Adriatic coast from Padua to Otranto. North of the airport, just outside Rimini's city centre, the SS16 meets the start of the SS72 Via Consolare state road, which leads to San Marino. The Rimini Sud junction of the tolled A14 motorway, which runs along the Adriatic from Bologna to Taranto, is located 800 m (2,600 ft) along the SS72. However, the airport is closer to the Riccione junction, which is the next junction southbound.[5]

The airport contains parking spaces for 300 cars.[11] The city council plans to construct an additional 200-space car park to serve the airport by the Metromare stop.[6][12][13]

References
  1. EAD Basic
  2. Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali
  3. "Boom di turisti a Riccione nonostante il maltempo". RiminiToday (in Italian). 22 May 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  4. "2 nowe wakacyjne trasy Ryanaira z Polski! Jedna wraca po krótkiej przerwie".
  5. "Rete dei trasporti pubblici del Comune di Rimini" [Public transport network of Rimini] (PDF). Start Romagna (in Italian). Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  6. "Rimini sud: rivoluzione viabilità tra aeroporto, statale e Metromare" [Rimini South: Revolution in the connectivity between the airport, the state road and the Metromare]. Corriere Romagna (in Italian). 6 September 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  7. "Metromare, l'intervento di Erbetta: "E' incredibile che non sia stato previsto un collegamento con il Fellini"" [Metromare, Erbetta's intervention: "It is incredible that a connection with Fellini was not foreseen"]. RiminiToday (in Italian). 23 October 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  8. "Per il Metromare Riccione propone "un'altra strada"" [For the Metromare, Riccione proposes "another road"]. RiminiToday (in Italian). 4 September 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  9. "Il Metromare non arriverà all'aeroporto ma ci sarà un collegamento" [Metromare won't arrive at the airport but there will be a connection]. newsrimini.it (in Italian). 5 April 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  10. "Metromare non sarà esteso fino all'aeroporto di Rimini: la città valuta opzioni alternative" [Metromare will not be extended to Rimini Airport: the city evaluates alternative options]. altarimini.it (in Italian). 5 April 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  11. "Partire da Rimini: le info utili per raggiungere stazione, porto e aeroporto" [Leaving from Rimini: Useful information for reaching the station, port and airport]. RiminiToday (in Italian). 15 July 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  12. "Approvato il progetto di riqualificazione della stazione del Metromare Miramare Airport" [The redevelopment project of the Metromare Miramare Airport stop has been approved]. RiminiToday (in Italian). 5 January 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  13. "Miramare, navetta dal Metromare all'aeroporto Fellini" [Miramare: Shuttle between Metromare and the Fellini Airport]. Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 6 January 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

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