What is the best airport to fly into Sicily?

Do you know what cities you'd like to visit? We flew in and out of Catania. We flew Delta to Rome and then Catania. The Catania airport was fine. It very rarely is affected/closed due to Mt. Etna activity. Depending on your route, you could fly into one city and out of the other. If you don't plan on visiting Catania, then you could use the Palermo airport. I believe the Catania airport was much closer to city center than Palermo's.

Enjoy your trip.

It may depend on your day of travel. Catania is more likely to have more flights. Palermo may only have one per day, depending on the day for your route. With only one connection, your choice of airlines will be limited. Have a look at Google Flights for both airports and look at a range of dates if possible.

We too flew in and out of Catania since there were better connections to it from where we flew out of. Also, because our flight arrived just before dusk and we were renting a car, our hotel was significantly closer to the airport than it would have been if we had arrived in Palermo.

Flying to Catania there was a layover in Munich while the layover was in Frankfurt on the return flight. On that trip we flew United airlines.

I like to do a search on matrix.itasoftware.com/flights to give me an overview of the possibilities. You can't book the flight(s) here but you can get a good idea of what's possible.

We flew into Catania and out of Palermo. There was no one layover option for us so we went into Rome first and spent two nights and then spent the last night near the Rome airport.

I’m planning on going to Sicily in February out of SFO and they don’t have the greatest flights. But then again, I am pretty picky! I didn’t realize it was kind of a headache to get to Sicily. But I’m definitely going to fly out of Catania because they seem to have better flights home.