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Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)

Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA, LICC) serves Catania, Italy. Flights leaving CTA left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 59th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 12.4 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Rome.

Delays at CTA

Average departure delay per flight: 16.9 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (25.2 min) and lightest in February (10.5 min).

Average departure delay per flight from CTA, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202522.0 min4,312
September 202521.4 min3,983
October 202519.7 min3,722
November 202511.3 min2,537
December 202515.3 min2,666
January 202614.0 min2,200
February 202610.5 min2,264
March 202612.1 min2,890
April 202611.4 min3,625
May 202612.3 min4,121
June 202618.1 min4,253
July 202625.2 min4,259

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.6% of arrivals at CTA for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of other causes (46% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at CTA

12,434,383 passengers used CTA in the twelve months to May 2026, on 76,050 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at CTA, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 20251,196,1187,302
July 20251,256,7527,748
August 20251,291,9797,996
September 20251,232,6847,392
October 20251,176,0027,030
November 2025803,3714,842
December 2025832,0215,148
January 2026661,0444,211
February 2026709,5584,280
March 2026883,1425,443
April 20261,116,9546,895
May 20261,274,7587,763

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from CTA

  1. Rome (FCO)1,938,269 passengers
  2. Milano (MXP)946,590 passengers
  3. Milano Linate (LIN)915,816 passengers
  4. Bologna Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ)618,424 passengers
  5. Venice Marco Polo (VCE)447,189 passengers
  6. Torino (TRN)410,978 passengers
  7. Bergamo (BGY)408,702 passengers
  8. Naples (NAP)408,205 passengers
  9. Villafranca (VRN)378,562 passengers
  10. Malta (MLA)357,155 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Catania (CTA)?
Flights leaving CTA left an average of 16.9 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 59th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at CTA?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 25.2 minutes late; the lightest month was February 2026 (10.5 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at CTA?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At CTA in the last year the biggest cause was other causes (46% of those minutes), then airport capacity (29%).

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