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The company was founded on January 1, 1989, by Pierre Philippe Ceccaldi to improve flight connections to Corsica. Its first flight took place in June 1990 under the name Compagnie Corse Méditerranée, later becoming CCM Airlines, and eventually adopting the name Air Corsica.
Figari–Sud Corse Airport or Figari South Corsica Airport [a] (IATA: FSC, ICAO: LFKF) is an airport located 3 km northwest of Figari, [1] a commune of the Corse-du-Sud département in France, on the island of Corsica and 25 km southwest of Porto-Vecchio. It is the third largest airport on Corsica and opened in 1975.
In 1940, a Vichy Air Corps unit was kept inactive at Campo dell'Oro. The liberation of Corsica began with the landing by sea in 1943 of I Corps at Ajaccio in Operation Vésuve. A few months later Fighter Group GC2/7 of the Free French Air Force, a French unit of the Royal Air Force, were operational on the grass field at Campo dell'Oro with ...
(IATA: AJA ICAO: LFKJ), Serves as the primary airport for Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, France. five kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Ajaccio's harbour in the Mediterranean Sea, the airport supports the capital of the Corse-du-Sud department. It is the main hub for the regional airline Air Corsica, offering flights to mainland France.
Calvi–Sainte-Catherine Airport [a] (IATA: CLY, ICAO: LFKC) is an airport located 6 km southeast of Calvi, [1] a commune of the Haute-Corse department in France, on the island of Corsica. Airlines and destinations
Corsica (/ ˈ k ɔːr s ɪ k ə / KOR-sik-ə; Corsican: [ˈkorsiɡa, ˈkɔrsika]; Italian: Corsica; French: Corse ⓘ) [3] is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland , west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north ...
The two major shipping companies providing these links are Corsica Linea and Corsica Ferries. Ferries. Ajaccio has also become a stopover for cruises with a total of 418,086 passengers in 2007—by far the largest in Corsica and the second-largest in France (after Marseille, but ahead of Nice/Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cannes). The goal is for ...
In 1944, during World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force. On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , the legendary French pilot, took off from this airport and disappeared, on a reconnaissance flight over France in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning .