Pisa Airport (PSA)

Advantages: Good central location for Tuscany
Disadvantages: It's an airport!

Pisa International Airport, or, as Ryanair like to call it, 'Florence airport' likes to call itself 'the Strategic gateway to Tuscany'. If all that weren't confusing enough, its Sunday name is Pisa International Airport - Galileo Galilei. Of course, it doesn't really matter what its called - what matters is whether the flight you want goes there...and I suppose, departs from there. When we took a trip to Tuscany last year, it rather conveniently ...
...there will have to use Pisa - Florence airport is smaller although I think there are plans to enlarge it. Not that it matters all that much, Florence isn't all that far from Pisa and there are excellent communication links. In fact, the railway station is literally on the doorstep. The airport is quite well situated for all the major attractions of Tuscany with Florence being 80km to the east, Siena around 100km south, the resorts on the coast are ... Read review

Advantages: has all the usual airport things, and good transport links, unlike some airports I've frequented!
Disadvantages: a bit boring if you are there for more than an hour.

Pisa Airport was a lot smaller than I was expecting. Don't expect to kill a great deal of time here! It is 'officially' the Airport of Tuscany rather than just Pisa specifically, and accordingly, most of the flights for Florence come into Pisa Airport (because Florence Airport, itself, is even smaller!). This does mean that there are good connections to Florence though. There are about 5 check-in desks so it isn't desperately hard to find out where ...
...can buy train tickets to Pisa or Florence (if you want to buy a ticket for anywhere further afield though, you have to go into Pisa and buy it from the train station there). The train station is literally next to the airport. Barely a one minute walk, and that's if you walk really really slow! There are direct trains to Pisa city (which takes about 2 minutes) or to Florence (which takes about 40 mins). There are also buses outside the airport which ... Read review

Advantages: quick
Disadvantages: not enough services

This is an airport which is run what seems on a very small budget but evn though it might be the case in the end it runs better than some of the big expensive airports. For starters as you arrive on the runway your find it abit of a rough landing as they don't really maintain the runway that much. Planes park up near the runway but your have to walk from the plane to the airport. Arrive to collect your luggage in a tiny little area and then just ...
...the time you get out of the plane and leave the airport you can be out within 10 minutes. Shops....erm...just one duty free shop which is pretty small but some good stuff at cheap prices. Car hire is poor as you really never get the type of car that you ask for. ... Read review