Airplane, Pisa

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Pisa has a tiny but most of the time overcrowded airport, Aeroporto Galileo Galilei, with flights to other Italian airports, almost every country in Europe and has even added a direct flight to New York JFK.
The airlines serving the airport include Air France, Air One, British Airways, Belle Air, easyJet, Finnair, Air Nostrum, Lufthansa, Ryan Air and Thomsonfly.

The airport has its own train station (50 meters away), which connected with the main station but has direct access to highways, motorways too.
For that you are better off with the city bus Nr.3 (leaves every 10 minutes, and takes about 10 minutes).
Airport car rentals include Avis, and Europcar. only in case, if you need to drive outside the city because the parking is extremely limited and expensive.

Address: Michele Viaggi Via Turati 24

Update: Wizz Air starts its new service from Budapest to Pisa from 1st of July 2010. Pisa is the sixth Italian destination, which is reachable via Budapest by Wizz Air. The service flies weekly three times.
Tickets may be reserved online - wizzair.com

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We flew to Pisa with Ryan Air from Stanstead Airport. As with all budget airlines, there are often good bargains to be had, especially if you can be a bit flexible bout your travel dates, but they aren’t called “no frills” for nothing! No reserved seats, no (free) food or drink, no fancy service. But you get what you pay for, and if you prefer to spend your money when you get to your destination rather than en route to it, this is a good option. Our flights worked out at around £50 each, including all taxes, and if we’d been prepared to be even more flexible we could have got them cheaper than that.

And as you can see, whether cheap or fancy, you can always enjoy the great views of the Italian Lakes as you fly over – weather permitting of course!

Other airlines flying here include British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Easy Jet, Iberia and Lufthansa.

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Pisa airport is a medium sized airport and therefore fairly easy to navigate around. It is a five minute train ride and a 30 minute walk to the 'Piazza dei Miracoli' and its leaning tower from the train station. There are two sets of check in desks in two separate buildings (if you can't find your number) both located at the end of the train plaforms. I have found checking in and baggage searches are fine but be warned of long delays (30 mins min.) just to get through passport control as they appear to be understaffed (Oct 2007). I arrived with 200 people waiting and one man examining passports!

Pisa is home to the Galileo Galilei Airport. The centre can be reached in 10 minutes by city bus - the bus line L.A.M Rossa connects the airport, the central train station and Campo dei Miracoli. Otherwise the centre can be reached in 5 minutes by train.

Ryanair have chaged there policy on luggage allowences 15th march 06, if 2 poeple are travaling together you now cannot pool your luggage allowence together ,the rule now is 1 case per passanger ,as happened to me and ryan air wanted to chage £16.50 for being 3 klios over weight or buy a seprate bag to unload the case into for £3.00 ,luckly our friends had room in their case to take our extra weight

Pisa's Aeroporto Galileo Galilei (information tel 050.500.707, www.pisa-airport.com ) is 2km south of Centrale station.

It has direct access to the Firenze-Pisa-Livorno dual carriageway (Pisa Centro - Aeroporto exit), to the Genova-Rosignano A12 motorway (Pisa Centro exit), to the Firenze-Pisa Nord A11 motorway (through the Pisa Nord linking stretch with the A12), and to road SS 1 “Aurelia”. Traffic nearly always flows smoothly on the entire road network

The Galileo Gallilei-Airport of Pisa is a very small Airport. They have only 21 Check-In desks, which mostly are crowded by Passengers of Ryanair and other low-cost-airlines.

After you have checked in, there is not that much to do anymore. The Airport has some heavily overprized stores for Clothing and Italian Food items outside the security area, plus an office of the Postal Service just in case you forgot sending your cards home.

Inside the secure area, there is even lesser to do. Only a newspaper-kiosk, a toysstore and a snackbar plus a single travel-value (duty-free)-store are to visit, and especially the duty-free-store is much more expensive then every Italian supermarket. A 0,75 litres bottle of Lemon-Liquor costed around 5 Euro in a supermarket in Florence, while the guys at Pisa Aiport tried to sell a 1,0 litres-bottle for more then 9 Euro!

Regarding food and drinks, its even worser: Outside the security-area, there are two restaurants - but they are only open at lunchtime and for dinner guests. In the morning, you only could visit Snackbars, offering Pizza Slices, Croissants and Cappucino. A proper breakfast isnt available at Pisa Airport.

Pisa is the gateway to Tuscany. The airport "Galileo Galilei" is a good starting point for your journey to this wonderful area of Italy. The airport is rather small, easy to find your way around and close to the highway. There are some shops, eateries, rental car agencies, a bank, and ATM.
It's also very close to the center of Pisa (only 1.5 km). You can take a bus, train or taxi to the center and it will take about 5 to 10 minutes.

Tickets can be bought at the information office in the arrival hall (right hand side). The train station is on the left side of the airport building and you will pay 1,10 EUR to go to "Pisa Centrale".

You can leave your luggage at the check-in luggage (next to the information office). The counter is open from 8 am to 8 pm and you have to pay 6 EUR per luggage (quite expensive!).