Brescia Airport

Brescia Airport
"Gabriele D'Annunzio"

*Aeroporto di Brescia*
Brescia Airport; "Gabriele D'Annunzio"; Aeroporto di Brescia
	IATA: VBS; ICAO: LIPO;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Brescia, Italy
Location	Montichiari, Lombardy
Built	1909
Elevation AMSL	356 ft / 109 m
Coordinates	45°25′44″N 010°19′50″E / 45.42889°N 10.33056°ECoordinates: 45°25′44″N 010°19′50″E / 45.42889°N 10.33056°E
Website	www.aeroportobrescia.it
Map
	VBS Location of airport on map of Lombardy Location of Lombardy region in Italy
Runways
Statistics (2020)
Passengers
Passengers	3,874
Passenger change 19-20	-77.2%
Movements	10,388
Movements change 19-20	-5.2%
Cargo tons	39,234
Cargo tons change 19-20	+27.8%
	Sources:DAFIF; Statistics from Assaeroporti

Brescia "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Brescia, IATA: VBS, ICAO: LIPO), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca.

History[]

The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France.^[3] The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel Forse che sì forse che no (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod also attended and separately published accounts.

Ryanair operated scheduled flights to and from London Stansted Airport and Cagliari-Elmas Airport until the end of October 2010, when the airline decided to move these flights to the nearby Verona-Villafranca Airport.

Passenger traffic has collapsed from strong year on year growth in 2007–2008, from almost 35,000 passengers a month in June 2008 ^[4] to only 311 passengers in June 2013, a drop of 99% over 5 years.^[5]

Airlines and destinations[]

Passenger[]

As of April 2021 there haven't been scheduled passenger services at the airport since July 2018.

Cargo[]

Airlines	Destinations
Poste Air Cargo	Rome-Fiumicino^[6]

Statistics[]

Annual passenger traffic at VBS airport. See source Wikidata query.

Ground transportation[]

On 20 May 2016, APAM (Transport for Mantova) began operation of a twice-weekly shuttle bus service between Brescia-Montichiari Airport to Brescia Santa Eufemia metro station, for onward connections to Brescia railway station.^[7] The bus journey takes 20 minutes and operates only on Mondays and Fridays.