The Company

GES.A.P. S.p.A. is the management company of the “Falcone Borsellino” International Airport of Palermo, with a share capital of 66,850,026.85 euro, fully subscribed, divided into 1,294,289 shares of 51.65 euro each, distributed among the Città Metropolitana di Palermo, the Municipality of Palermo, the Chamber of Commerce of Palermo, the Municipality of Cinisi, Confindustria Palermo and other minor shareholders.

As airport manager, the Company plans, builds and manages areas, infrastructures and plants of the airport, taking care of any necessary maintenance and implementation, also providing centralized services such as, for example, airport direction, public information and communication, airport surveillance and security and the provision of commercial services, directly or through sub-concessions to third parties.

Established in 1985, the Company operated until 1994 exclusively by providing handling services (ground handling services) to aircraft, given that Palermo airport was managed by the State (Ministry of Transport – General Directorate of Civil Aviation) and carried out by the local Airport Management.

In 1994, the Company became the holder of the twenty-year concession for the partial management of the airport, i.e. limited to the areas located in the land side (airport and related appurtenances), obtaining, in April 1999, the early entry in the management of the air side and, specifically, of flight infrastructures (runways, junctions, link roads, taxiways and aprons), pursuant to art. 17 L. 135/97.

In August 2007, with MIT / MEF Interministerial Decree n. 119T, GES.A.P. obtains the concession of the total management of the Palermo Airport lasting forty years.

Since January 2012, GESAP has periodically signed the Program Agreement with ENAC for the regulatory period of the subsequent  four-year period, i.e. the main tool for planning and regulating tariff dynamics for the use of airport infrastructures, based on the infrastructure investment plan and quality and environmental protection plan and traffic forecasts for the reference period.

The Contract Programme in force to date, is the one signed between Gesap and ENAC on 08 July 2016 (Programme Contract in extension).
In accordance with the ART regulation models of the airport charges, as per Resolution 92/17 related to the 2020-2023 regulatory period and as per Resolution 38/23 related to the 2024-2027 regulatory period, Gesap is adopting the tariff level as per Resolution ART 6/2021 and the proceedings for defining the tariff dynamics of the current regulatory period are ongoing.