Editing Transport in Italy (section)

===Airports===
{{main article|List of airports in Italy}}
[[File:Milan malpensa terminal airport.jpg|thumb|The [[Malpensa International Airport]] in Milan, the busiest airport in Italy by cargo traffic]]
Italy is the fifth in Europe by number of passengers by air transport, with about 148 million passengers or about 10% of the European total in 2011.<ref name=istat_ta2011>{{cite web|title=Trasporto aereo in Italia (PDF)|url=http://www.istat.it/it/archivio/78802|publisher=ISTAT|access-date=5 August 2013|archive-date=13 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113035254/http://www.istat.it/it/archivio/78802|url-status=live}}</ref> Most of passengers in Italy are on international flights (57%). A big share of domestic flights connect the major islands ([[Sardinia]] and [[Sicily]]) to the mainland.<ref name=istat_ta2011 /> Domestic flights between major Italian cities as [[Rome]] and [[Milan]] still play a relevant role but are declining since the opening of the [[High-speed rail in Italy|Italian high-speed rail network]] in recent years.

Italy has a total as of 130 airports in 2012, of which 99 have paved runways:<ref name=cia1 />
*''over {{convert|3,047|m|abbr=on}}:'' 9
*''{{convert|2,438|to|3,047|m|abbr=on}}:'' 31
*''{{convert|1,524|to|2,437|m|abbr=on}}:'' 18
*''{{convert|914|to|1,523|m|abbr=on}}:'' 29
*''under {{convert|914|m|abbr=on}}:'' 12

Airports - with unpaved runways in 2012:<ref name=cia1 />
*''total:'' 31
*''{{convert|1,524|to|2,437|m|abbr=on}}:'' 1
*''{{convert|914|to|1,523|m|abbr=on}}:'' 11
*''under {{convert|914|m|abbr=on}}:'' 19