Forlì Airport , also known as Luigi Ridolfi Airport , is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Forlì

Forlì

Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre...

, a city in the Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

 region of northern Italy

Italy

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. It is named for Italian aviator .

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 94 feet (28.7 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 12/30 with an asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface measuring 2560 by 45 m (8,399 by 147.6 ).

Airlines and destinations

Wizzair is the largest operator at Forli Airport. It used to be Wind Jet but they moved to the nearby Rimini Airport on 27 March. Ryanair

Ryanair

Ryanair is an Irish low-cost airline. Its head office is at Dublin Airport and its primary operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport....

 also used to fly from Forli to a number of European cities such as London (Stansted) and Frankfurt (Hahn), until it moved to the nearby Bologna Airport

Bologna Airport

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External links

• Forli Airport, official website
• Forlì Airport Information