During World War II Italian Campaign, it was seized by the British Eighth Army in late September 1943, and turned into an Allied military airfield.

After the war, it was turned over to the postwar Air Force of the Italian Republic (Aeronautica Militare Italiana).

However, the traffic increase showed the infrastructural limitations of the airport and in 2002 the founding stone of the new passenger terminal was laid out.

[citation needed] In 2005, construction works for a new control tower began and they were completed the following year.

They were upgraded in 2005–2006 with the opening of a new passenger terminal equipped with four jet bridges and a multistorey car park.

AMTAB buses provide public transportation to the airport from the city centre (Line 16).