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Kraj: Costa Smeralda, država: Italy

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Opis mesta: The success of an airport can be gauged by its infrastructure and the aircraft parked on its ramps. In the case of Olbia, on the Italian island of Sardinia, a multi-milion Euro civil engineering development of the terminal and control tower is completed.
Costa Smeralda is visited by a number of ‘A-list’ celebrities routing through the airport. <strong>George Clooney</strong>, <strong>Harrison Ford</strong>, <strong>Silvio Berlusconi</strong>, <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>, <strong>Calista Flockhart</strong>, <strong>Rod Stewart</strong> are just a few of the names visiting the island.
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Olbia, is now sub-titled <strong>Costa Smeralda International</strong>, which more closely associates it with the picturesque inlets, bays and villastrewn hillsides of Sardinia’s north-eastern coastline. And in line with the region’s growing popularity the airport is expanding rapidly for both scheduled, charter and business aviation. The airport is operated by Geasar SpA, a joint stock company founded on October 12, 1985, on the initiative of Meridana’s predecessor, Alisarda.
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Olbia (IATA three-letter code OLB) is one of the three main airports serving the large Italian island of Sardinia, located in the <strong>Mediterranean Sea</strong> immediately to the south of <strong>Corsica</strong>. The others are at <strong>Cagliari</strong> on the southern tip of the island and Alghero in the north-west and serving the <a href="http://www.checkmycity.com/">city of Sassari</a>. To give a measure of Sadinia’s geographical size, it is 163 miles (264km) from Cagliari to Olbia.<span class="alignright"><img src="http://www.checkmycity.com/exclusive-travel/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/costa_smeralda-e1287135112387.jpg" alt="Olbia Costa Smeralda Travel Guide, video, celebrity, airport, hotel reservation, Harrison Ford vacation" title="The because of Costa Smeralda"></span>Because of Sardinia’s and the <strong>Costa Smeralda’s seasonal nature</strong>, OLB is far busier during the summer months than in winter. However, the Sardinian ‘season’ is much longer then even that in the <strong>South of France</strong> so this is reflected in traffic patterns. Because of this vacationing market, the weekends also tend to be busier then week days, particularly summer Saturdays.
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Olbia’s first airport was the all-gradd Venaflorita, which had its first scheduled operation in April 1964, when Alisarda started Beechcraft C-45 services to Rome. A hard runway was soon constructed as Alisarda aquired a <strong>Nord 262</strong> and also inaugurated services from OLB to Milan. <strong>Fokker F-27s</strong> were introduced in 1969 as traffic from Olbia started to grow significantly. By 1970 Olbia had direct scheduled services to <strong>Bologna</strong>, <strong>Genoa</strong>, <strong>Milan</strong>, <strong>Pisa</strong>, <strong>Rome</strong> and <strong>Turin</strong> on the Italian mainland, plus Cagliari.<br><br>
The current airport site - at the south-eastern extremity of the city of Olbia - was constructed in 1974 to accept the modern jets that Alisarda and many other airlines were then flying to Sardinia as its popularity as a holiday destination, mainly for Italians, started to develop. It quickly coined the name Olbia - Costa Smeralda (in Italian <em>Aeroporto Internazionale di Olbia Costa Smeralda</em>) to capitalise on the acssociations with the beautiful and popular Costa, its neighbouring waters and <strong>the Arcipelago della Maddalena</strong>.<br><br>
Read <a href="http://www.checkmycity.com/Travel-Guide-olbia-and-Costa-Smeralda-Gateway-Part-2/7309/">Travel Guide: Olbia and Costa Smeralda Gateway Part 2</a>