Best airports according to passengers: Fiumicino still first in Europe, three more Italians in the rankings
Nearly 700 thousand interviews, conducted at its 120 member airports. Thus ACI (Airport Council International) World has compiled the [...]
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Almost 700 thousand interviews, conducted in the 120 Airports Who are part of it. Thus ACI (Airport Council International) World has compiled rankings of the world's best airports, according to rankings which are even more valuable because built on passenger responses and not on expert evaluations.
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E Rome Fiumicino, also in 2024 and for the eighth consecutive year, Was awarded the title of 'best airport in Europe', excelling in all five categories on which ACI's questions to passengers focused: best airport (among those with more than 40 million passengers a year), staff attention, ease of airport 'route', nicer/pleasant airport, cleaner airport.
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In the first category (that of 'best airport with more than 40 million passengers' in Europe), Fiumicino shared the title with Istanbul. Milan Linate took the lead (tied with seven other airports) in the 5 to 10 million passengers per year category. Ciampino (along with three other airports) in that of airports with 2 to 5 million passengers.
Ciampino, Fiumicino and Turin have been awarded., among European airports, As those with the best staff, along with Barcelona, Inverness and Bodrum. As for the Better 'navigability' of the port of call, the 'Leonardo da Vinci' shared the top spot with Skopje, Izmir, Bodrum, Barcelona-Reus and El Hierro.
The awards for the 'most pleasant' airport went in addition to FCO to Ankara, Izmir, Bodrum, Tallinn and Thessaloniki. Finally the cleaner airports from the Old Continent were Fiumicino, Thessaloniki, Pamplona, Bodrum, Izmir and El Hierro.
Of note is the fact that Italy's largest airport has excelled in the various categories along with much smaller airports in terms of size and traffic, which further enhances its merits because it is clear how easier it is to have easy and short airport routes in small terminals or to have particularly efficient staffs when both the airport area and the number of users is small, compared to excelling by having 'on your hands' a terminal the size of Fiumicino and nearly 50 million passengers, with peaks of 180 thousand travelers a year.
