<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Falcone Borsellino Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Early years:</strong>GESAP S.p.a. is the airport management company of the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">It has a fully paid-up share capital of &euro;15,912,332 divided between the Regional Province of Palermo, the Comune of Palermo, the Chamber of Commerce, the Comune of Cinisi and other minor partners.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Established in 1985, until 1994 GESAP operated exclusively as handler and supplier of ground services for Palermo Airport, the management of which is directly assigned by the government and overseen by the District Airport Directorate.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was given the name Falcone Borsellino in memory of the two leading anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992. A 1.90-metre (6 ft 3 in) diameter plaque featuring their portraits can be found to the right of one of the main outside entrances to the departure hall, set into a mosaic of Sicily. Created by the Sicilian sculptor Tommaso Geraci, it bears the inscription Giovanni Falcone&ndash;Paolo Borsellino&ndash;Gli Altri&ndash;L'orgoglio della Nuova Sicilia (Giovanni Falcone&ndash;Paolo Borsellino&ndash;The Others&ndash;The Pride of the New Sicily).</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 1994, GESAP was charged with the partial management of the airport through a convention which granted the company a 20-year mandate to run land-side activities (the airport buildings and surrounding areas).</p>
<p class="blog-para">In April 1999, GESAP obtained an anticipated mandate to manage the airport's air side activities, and, more specifically, the flight infrastructure (runways, links, taxiways and aprons) as foreseen by art. 17 L. 135/97.</p>
<p class="blog-para">As airport management company, GESAP plans, creates and manages the airport's areas, infrastructures and systems, ensuring the necessary maintenance and implementation of the same. It also provides centralised services such as airport coordination, public information systems, security controls and surveillance as well as managing commercial outlets through concessions to third parties.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4">Ground Transport Falcone Borsellino Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The following means of transport are available at Palermo Airport to the city centre:</p>
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<li class="blog-li"><strong>Train: </strong>The airport's railway facility, Punta Raisi railway station, is the northwestern terminus of Palermo metropolitan railway service. It links the airport with Palermo Centrale railway station. A typical timetable on work days is a train every 30 minutes in each direction between early morning and around 10.00 pm.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Bus: </strong> There are several private bus companies, which stop at the bus station outside the terminal building and connect the airport with nearby Palermo city. There are further connections to/from Palermo, Catania, Messina and rest of Sicily.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Taxi: </strong> The average time to transfer to Palermo downtown is of 38 minutes.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Transfers: </strong> If you want private transportation to and from Palermo Airport, you can book a transfer.</li>
<li class="blog-li"><strong>Car Rental: </strong>Rent a car in Palermo Airport.</li>
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