Getting around CTA
Catania Fontanarossa sits 6 km from the city centre, in the shadow of Mount Etna — and the volcano is not just scenery: on the night of July 5–6, 2026 an eruption triggered a RED alert that suspended all arrivals and blocked departures "until further notice"; the alert was downgraded to ORANGE and flights resumed the following afternoon, each update posted on the airport’s own News page. The airport has two terminals, run by SAC (which also manages nearby Comiso): Terminal A holds every check-in counter, both VIP lounges and — despite the name pattern elsewhere — the only non-Schengen gates, while Terminal C is a separate single-floor building used solely for Schengen departures. Fontanarossa opened on May 11, 1924, and its first postwar flight landed from Turin on May 5, 1947. In the first half of 2026 alone it handled 5,924,508 passengers, up 2.7% on the same period the year before, according to Assaeroporti — Italy’s airport-operator association.
