Falcone–Borsellino Airport

Falcone–Borsellino Airport — formally Aeroporto di Palermo and located at Punta Raisi 22 mi (35 km) west of central Palermo — is the second-busiest airport in Sicily after Catania and the principal gateway to western Sicily. The airport is named in honor of anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who were both assassinated in 1992 in Mafia-orchestrated attacks that shaped a generation of Italian political history; the airport renaming was an act of national remembrance and the institution now occupies a unique place in Italian civic symbolism. PMO handles 126 routes to 94 destinations operated by 39 airlines. Ryanair and Wizz Air both operate meaningful bases at PMO, and the airport's traffic mix has increasingly tilted low-cost over the past 15 years. Other carriers include ITA Airways, easyJet, Vueling, Volotea, Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, Turkish Airlines, Neos, Aeroitalia, Albastar, Tunisair, and seasonal Central and Eastern European leisure operators. Scheduled long-haul service is limited; the network concentrates on mainland Italian domestic destinations (Rome FCO, Milan MXP/LIN/BGY, Naples, Venice, Turin, Bologna, Florence, Pisa), major northern and western European cities (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Zurich), and a seasonal tail across Poland, Romania, Czechia, and Scandinavia tracking the Sicilian-diaspora and western-European leisure markets. The airfield sits at 65 ft (20 m) elevation with two asphalt runways: 07/25 at 10,912 ft (3,326 m) and 02/20 at 6,804 ft (2,074 m). The primary 07/25 runway's distinctive overwater approach along the Tyrrhenian coast is a frequent subject of aviation photography. The single integrated terminal has been progressively expanded, with added gates, refreshed commercial concessions, and new ground-transport integration. PMO is also aviation-historically notable as the site of the 1972 Montagna Longa crash — one of the deadliest accidents in Italian aviation history — and a 2005 runway overrun by a Tuninter ATR 72 that ditched in the sea short of the airport.