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Fiumicino reinforces terminal T3, 250 million investment

With the inaugurated interventions, the capacity for arriving passengers increased by more than 30 per cent. The restyling of the facade covered an area equal to 6 football fields. 25 Italian companies involved

by Giorgio Pogliotti

13 May 2025

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Key points

Baggage belts increased and security check area renovated
Vice-Premier Salvini: Fiumicino airport must grow
Ad Troncone: next step is the launch of the EUR 9 billion development plan

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With a total investment of more than EUR 250 million, the new Terminal 3 at Fiumicino airport was upgraded, increasing capacity for arriving passengers by more than 30 per cent, ensuring the area is fully operational for the Summer 2025 air season, which is currently underway.

The restyling of the façade to restore the original architectural values of visual permeability and natural light, was carried out to ensure the airport's operational continuity during the 4 years of the works, and covered an area distributed over three levels with a total of 41,000 square metres, comparable in size to 6 football pitches. With the involvement of more than 25 Italian companies, the regeneration of T3 at Leonardo Da Vinci airport involved 6 check-in islands with 150 new desks, bringing the total number of desks to 248, 60 of which can be used by passengers in an autonomous manner.

The works carried out were presented to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini during an inspection of the airport together with a delegation of Aeroporti di Roma management, led by CEO Marco Troncone and President Vincenzo Nunziata, and with the participation of ENAC President Pierluigi Di Palma, ITA Airways CEO Joerg Eberhardt and President Sandro Pappalardo, and Fiumicino Mayor Mario Baccini.

Baggage belts increased and security control area renovated

The number of baggage belts was increased from 9 to 14, with a doubling of the overall length (from around 400 metres to 800 metres), to ensure greater capacity and flexibility in baggage handling. The security control area for sensitive flights was renovated, equipped with 11 RX machines, and for transit flights, the border areas were upgraded. The building structure was strengthened and the facilities modernised, with seismic resistance enhanced by structural reinforcements and new fire-fighting systems, with more than 3,100 detectors, 88 smoke extractors and 15 new air handling units, and the lighting was renewed.

The airport, which has been operational since 1961, has been upgraded with a project designed and implemented by ADR Infrastrutture and ADR Ingegneria, subsidiaries of Aeroporti di Roma, a Mundys Group company, aimed at improving the operational efficiency and travel experience of the millions of passengers on non-Schengen flights that now transit the airport, in compliance with the highest standards of security and technological innovation.

Vice-Premier Salvini: Fiumicino airport must grow

"You have to improve when things are going well. Because if you sit on positive numbers, thinking that positive numbers are a given, and then when ours stops it's too late to provide for it, also because I've seen in the development data of other airports, there's Istanbul that has given itself a passenger capacity target in twenty years of 200 million,' said Salvini, 'we were close to 50 million yesterday, so the only choice that ADR, Fiumicino, the government, Rome, but also the whole of Italy cannot afford is to block the development of Fiumicino airport. It is inevitably destined to grow'.

Ad Troncone: next step is the launch of the 9 billion euro development plan

"The regeneration works of Terminal 3 are part of the medium-long term infrastructural enhancement strategy that, over the last ten years, has led us to invest, on Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, about 3 billion euros, equal to half of the resources committed, over the same period, by the entire Italian airport sector," said ADR CEO Marco Troncone, who added "this is a step along a path that has projected the capital's airport into the world elite in terms of quality of services and generated a formidable economic and employment spin-off. With the objective of continuing along this path and contributing to raising the international competitiveness of Italian air transport to the rank that it deserves, the next stage will be the launch of the new long-term development plan with an additional 9 billion euros of investment to promptly and fully seize the great opportunities for the development of air connectivity from which the country will benefit".

Last April, Fiumicino airport entered for the first time the Skytrax Top 10 Best Airports in the World, directly in 8th place, climbing 4 positions since 2024, and, from the same airport rating company, it also received once again the 5 Stars, the highest award in the airport sector worldwide.