AERDORICA SPA

Aerdorica SPA is the company managing Ancona Falconara Airport. It was set up by public boards and a group of important local enterprises to play a key role in planning and building the infrastructures needed for the airport development. Today it is owned 60% publicly and 40% by private shareholders.

Aerdorica’s mission is to develop the airport’s infrastructures to ensure safe and efficient passenger and cargo services, facilitate growth of the airport’s traffic, and steadily improve the quality of services to passengers, airlines, trade partners and all those who utilise the airport.

Aerdorica’s activities are based on three types of services:

• handling handling of passengers and incoming and outcoming cargo,
• refuelling
• airport infrastructure management.

In addition, Aerdorica SPA operates a number of commercial activities to improve reception of passengers in transit.

Falconara was a purely military airport until 1962 when it was opened to civilian flights. In 1965 a small air terminal was built and in 1968, Aerdorica So.ge.s.a.m. S.r.l. was set up by 12 local boards (and switched to joint stock status in 1988). Construction works on the air terminal began in 1977 and the basic framework still stands today. During 1993-1995 Ancona airport became a UN base for the airlift to Sarajevo. Substantial investments were made in 1996 to extend the passenger terminal, develop cargo traffic and improve technical equipment and runway facilities. Between 1998 and 1999 local entrepreneurs introduced new capital and the company adopted the name of Aerdorica SPA.

Aerdorica’s latest results show considerable growth in both quantity and type of traffic: from 150,000 passengers in 1993, traffic will reach more than 400,000 passengers in the year 2000. During this period the airport has extended its destinations by including airlines such as Air Dolomiti/Lufthansa, Ryanair, Tarom, Alpi Eagles, Eureka, Si-Fly and Aeroflot which, apart from serving the main Italian hubs (Milan-Malpensa and Rome-Fiumicino with Alitalia) connect Ancona and the Central Italy directly with Munich, London, Athens, Palermo, Bucharest, Arad and Moscow. Weekly charter flights have became a permanent activity.

Cargo transport, especially to ex-USSR countries, has increased considerably and DHL, the world-wide courier, has established its base in our airport with a daily B727 flight to/from Bergamo. On September 14 1998, a postal night flight to Rome began. With 24 hours operation, Ancona airport acquired more strategic importance.

This staggering growth has called for huge investments to align the airport with users’ needs (particularly in terms of infrastructures) and make it more competitive (by means of marketing strategies in co-ordination with the airlines) so as to attract new traffic on national and international routes.