Orio al Serio International Airport

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Orio al Serio International Airport

Milan Bergamo Airport[1]
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSACBO
ServesBergamo, Metropolitan City of Milan
LocationOrio al Serio
Hub forRyanair
Elevation AMSL782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028Coordinates: 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028
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Map
BGY is located in Bergamo
BGY
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Location of airport on map of Bergamo
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,937 9,630 Asphalt
12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Passengers3,833,063
Passenger change 19-20Decrease -72.3%
Movements38,668
Movements change 19-20Decrease -59.5%
Cargo (tons)51,543.10
Cargo change 19-20Decrease -56.7%
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP, Assaeroporti[2]

Orio al Serio International Airport[3] (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME), branded as Milan Bergamo Airport,[4][5] is the third busiest international airport in Italy.[2] It is located in the municipal territory of Orio al Serio, 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southeast of Bergamo in Italy. The airport is 45 km (28 mi) north-east of Milan, where it operates alongside Malpensa Airport and Linate Airport, the city's other two primary airports. The airport served almost 13 million passengers in 2018.

Overview[]

Apron view
Departures area

The airport is managed by SACBO, a company partially owned by SEA – Aeroporti di Milano, the operator of Linate and Malpensa airports. SEA, the company that runs the latter two airports, also holds a 31% stake in SACBO.[6] It is also christened "Il Caravaggio" after the Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who lived as a child at Caravaggio in the Province of Bergamo.[7]

In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced to relocated their hub operations from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities.[8]

Airlines and destinations[]

Passenger[]

The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[9]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Albania Tirana
Air Arabia Alexandria, Cairo, Casablanca, Sharm El Sheikh
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca[10]
AlbaStar Seasonal: Alghero, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Crotone, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Olbia
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Blue Air Bacău
easyJet Amsterdam, London–Gatwick, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Olbia
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Flyr Seasonal: Oslo (begins 5 January 2022)[11]
HiSky Baia Mare, Chișinău, Târgu Mureș
Luke Air Seasonal: Lampedusa, Skiathos (both suspended)
Neos Seasonal: Cagliari, Catania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Mykonos, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Pobeda Moscow–Vnukovo
Ryanair Agadir, Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia, Athens, Banja Luka, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin, Billund, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Brindisi, Bristol, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Comiso, Copenhagen, Crotone, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fes, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal (begins 31 March 2022),[12] Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Helsinki, Katowice, Kharkiv, Knock, Kraków, Kyiv–Boryspil, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lappeenranta, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Lourdes, Luxembourg, Lviv, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne (begins 30 March 2022), Niš, Odessa, Oradea, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pescara, Porto, Poznan, Prague, Riga, Sandefjord, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sofia, Suceava, Tangier, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Timișoara, Toulouse, Trapani, Valencia, Vienna, Vilnius, Vitoria, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Chania, Corfu, Cork, Ibiza, Heraklion, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Kos, Menorca, Preveza, Rhodes, Santorini, Weeze, Zadar, Zakynthos
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam/The Hague (begins 3 April 2022)[13]
TUI fly BelgiumCasablanca
Volotea Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Lampedusa, Olbia, Pantelleria, Split
Vueling Paris–Orly
Wizz Air Bacău, Bucharest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Gdańsk, Iași, Katowice, Saint Petersburg, Sofia, Suceava, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo[]

AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[14] Cologne/Bonn

Statistics[]

Traffic[]


Annual passenger traffic at BGY airport. See source Wikidata query.
Orio al Serio Airport – traffic information[15]
Year Passengers Movements Cargo tons
2005 4,356,143 51,635 136,339
2006 5,244,794 (+20.4%) 56,358 (+9.1%) 140,630 (+3.1%)
2007 5,741,734 (+9.5%) 61,364 (+8.9%) 134,449 (−4.4%)
2008 6,482,590 (+12.9%) 64,390 (+4.9%) 122,398 (−9.0%)
2009 7,160,008 (+10.4%) 65,314 (+1.4%) 100,354 (−18.0%)
2010 7,661,061 (+7.2%) 67,167 (+6.3%) 106,050 (+6.5%)
2011 8,419,948 (+9.7%) 71,514 (+5.7%) 112,556 (+5.3%)
2012 8,801,392 (+5.5%) 72,420 (+4.3%) 116,730 (+4.0%)
2013 8,882,611 (+0.9%) 69,974 (−3.4%) 115,950 (−0.7%)
2014 8,696,085 (−2.1%) 66,390 (−5.1%) 122,488 (+5.6%)
2015 10,404,625 (+18.6%) 76,078 (+12.4%) 121,045 (−1.8%)
2016 11,159,631 (+7.3%) 79,953 (+5.1%) 117,765 (−2.7%)
2017 12,336,137 (+10.5%) 86,113 (+7.7%) 125,948 (+6.9%)
2018 12,938,572 (+4.9%) 89,533 (+4.0%) 123,032 (−2.3%)
2019 13,857,257 (+7.1%) 95,377 (+6.5%) 118,964 (−3.3%)
2020 3,833,063 (−72.3%) 38,668 (−59.5%) 51,543 (−56.7%)

Busiest routes[]

Busiest domestic routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[16]
Rank City Passengers 2014 Passengers 2013 Passengers 2012 (o.w.) Airline
1 Bari, Apulia 395,912 398,801 185,188 Ryanair
2 Cagliari, Sardinia 351,967 378,223 189,440 Ryanair
3 Lamezia Terme, Calabria 337,278 344,402 175,985 Ryanair
4 Brindisi, Apulia 321,557 320,075 160,847 Ryanair
5 Catania, Sicily 316,688 197,628 n.a. Ryanair
6 Palermo, Sicily 316,099 310,468 151,766 Ryanair
7 Trapani, Sicily 221,158 225,746 111,730 Ryanair
8 Alghero, Sardinia 171,972 169,041 85,680 Ryanair
9 Pescara, Abruzzo 149,862 151,389 78,868 Ryanair
Busiest European routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[16]
Rank City Passengers 2014 Passengers 2013 Passengers 2012 Airline
1 London–Stansted, United Kingdom 433,762 372,387 346,870 Ryanair
2 Charleroi, Belgium 276,701 298,445 293,707 Ryanair
3 Barcelona, Spain 249,108 223,236 299,985 Ryanair
4 Beauvais, France 216,251 218,509 219,474 Ryanair
5 Valencia, Spain 206,733 196,978 186,484 Ryanair
6 Madrid, Spain 170,258 125,762 201,613 Ryanair
7 Dublin, Ireland 148,368 132,571 123,659 Ryanair
8 Bucharest, Romania 144,255 152,895 159,272 Blue Air, Wizz Air
9 Manchester, United Kingdom 118,321 114,136 102,345 Ryanair
10 Berlin–Schönefeld, Germany 116,148 83,651 89,554 Ryanair
11 Vilnius, Lithuania 113,560 99,493 95,044 Ryanair, Wizz Air
12 Sevilla, Spain 112,252 110,611 112,710 Ryanair
13 Stockholm–Skavsta, Sweden 110,575 112,713 112,259 Ryanair
14 Kraków, Poland 109,426 110,264 104,214 Ryanair
15 Eindhoven, Netherlands 109,320 109,824 107,090 Ryanair
16 Ibiza, Spain 105,693 95,678 97,635 AlbaStar, Ryanair
17 Sofia, Bulgaria 98,201 102,546 94,794 Wizz Air
18 Luqa, Malta 92,244 78,863 – Ryanair
19 Budapest, Hungary 91,377 102,955 185,536 Ryanair
20 Porto, Portugal 90,419 93,279 n.a. Ryanair
Busiest non-EU routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[16]
Rank City Passengers 2014 Passengers 2013 Passengers 2012 Airline
1 Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey 107,222 120,750 106,643 Pegasus Airlines
2 Marsa Alam, Egypt 75,919 57,838 64,772 Neos, Meridiana, Small Planet,
3 Casablanca, Morocco 72,808 79,882 63,737 Air Arabia Maroc
4 Kyiv, Ukraine 63,817 84,543 n.a. Wizz Air
5 Tirana, Albania 52,276 63,730 n.a. Belle Air

Accidents and incidents[]

  • On 30 October 2005, Trade Air Flight 729 crashed near Bergamo, Italy, shortly after taking off in poor weather. The flight was a night-time cargo flight from Bergamo to Zagreb operated by a Let L-410 Turbolet with the registration 9A-BTA. All three people on board, two pilots and a passenger, were killed.[17]
  • On 5 August 2016, during the night, Boeing 737-476 (SF) registered HA-FAX, operated by ASL Airlines Hungary, overshot while landing on runway 28 in Bergamo and came to a stop on a parking lot and on a secondary highway lane that is around the airport, 300 m from the runway end. No one was injured, but some cars were destroyed and the plane sustained substantial damages. The plane was removed from the street the same day. The air traffic remained unvaried without delays.[18]

Ground transportation[]

Car[]

The A4 is one of the main road networks that links the airport.

Bus[]

There are several public transportation links to and from downtown Milan, including express coaches.[19] There are further connections to/from Bergamo city center, Arezzo, Bologna, Brescia, Monza, Turin, Malpensa Airport, and Milan Trade Exhibition Center, Parma, Torino, and Verona.

Railway[]

While a railway station is currently being built at Bergamo airport by 2024,[20] the current nearest railway station is Bergamo railway station, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away. There is no official shuttle between the airport and the railway station. A bus service operated by ATB connects to the airport, about 10 minutes from the train station.[21]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Milan Bergamo Airport official website
  2. ^ a b "Traffic Data 2019" (PDF). www.assaeroporti.com.
  3. ^ "Orio al Serio international airport • SACBO S.p.A". Orioaeroporto.it. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  4. ^ "Prima volta del Boeing 787 800 Dreamliner all'Aeroporto di Milano Bergamo". Milan Bergamo Airport SACBO S.p.A. (in Italian). 3 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Bergamenglish BGY Edition by Vava77". Milan Bergamo Airport SACBO S.p.A. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  6. ^ "TRAIL - Portale nazionale delle infrastrutture di trasporto e logistica del sistema camerale". www.trail.unioncamere.it.
  7. ^ "Bergamo airport now dedicated to Caravaggio". Best of Bergamo. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  8. ^ airliners.de (German) 25 March 2021
  9. ^ https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/it/orario-voli-stagionale/
  10. ^ https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/it/orario-voli-charter-stagionale/
  11. ^ https://finansavisen.no/nyheter/luftfart/2021/09/30/7745401/flyr-satser-pa-skituristene-lanserer-fem-nye-reisemal
  12. ^ https://www.jm-madeira.pt/economia/ver/149203/Ryanair_vai_da_Madeira_para_10_cidades_da_Europa_a_2999_euros
  13. ^ "Transavia start ticketverkoop naar (nieuwe) zomerbestemmingen 2022" [Transavia starts ticketsales to new summer 2022 destinations]. Luchtvaartnieuws.nl (in Dutch). 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  14. ^ airlineroutemaps.com - UPS United Parcel Service retrieved 16 July 2020
  15. ^ Assaeroporti Statistics
  16. ^ a b c "ENAC: Italy's Traffic Statistics 2011" (PDF). 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  17. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Let L-410UVP-E19A 9A-BTA Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  18. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-476SF HA-FAX Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". Aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  19. ^ "Bus SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Treno per Orio: tracciato sotterraneo, 4 binari e corse per Bergamo ogni 10 minuti". BergamoNews (in Italian). 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  21. ^ "Train SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.

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