Airport in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Orio al Serio International Airport ,[ 2] also styled as Milan Bergamo Airport for commercial purposes,[ 3] [ 4] (IATA : BGY , ICAO : LIME ) is the third-busiest international airport in Italy.[ 1]
The airport is also officially called Il Caravaggio International Airport after the Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , who originally hailed from the nearby town of Caravaggio .[ 5]
The airport served almost 17,4 million passengers in 2024 and is one of Ryanair 's three largest operating bases, along with Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport .[ 6] [ 7]
The airport is located in Orio al Serio , 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southeast of Bergamo and 45 km (28 mi) northeast of Milan . Together with Milan Malpensa Airport and Milan Linate Airport , it forms the Milan airport system serving the Milan metropolitan area , that with 58.9 million passengers in 2024 constitutes the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers.[ 8]
Overview
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.[ 9]
The airport has one passenger terminal and two jet-bridge gates.[citation needed ]
The terminal is split into two zones, A (Gates A1-A15) and B (Gates B1-B5). Gates A13 and B5 are equipped with boarding bridges; the remaining gates are remote gates.
In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced plans to relocate their hub from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities.[ 10] In early 2022, DHL confirmed the end of all operations at Bergamo.[ 11]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[ 12]
Airlines Destinations AeroItalia Comiso [ 13] Seasonal: Bacău [ 14]
Air Arabia Cairo , Casablanca ,[ 15] Fès ,[ 16] Sharjah Seasonal: Alexandria
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh (begins 3 April 2025)[ 17]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca [ 18]
AJet Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen [ 19]
AlbaStar Seasonal: Fuerteventura , Lourdes , Sal Seasonal charter: Marsa Alam , Sharm El Sheikh
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Bluebird Airways Seasonal: Tel Aviv (begins 8 April 2025)[ 20]
Cabo Verde Airlines Sal [ 21]
Dan Air Seasonal: Bacău [ 22] [ 23]
Eurowings Düsseldorf ,[ 24] Hamburg Seasonal: Hannover [ 25]
flydubai Dubai–International
Georgian Airways Tbilisi [ 26]
HiSky Chișinău , Oradea [ 27]
Israir Tel Aviv [ 28]
Lumiwings Foggia [ 29]
Neos Dakar–Diass [ 30] Seasonal: Amritsar ,[ 31] Boa Vista ,[ 32] Catania , Heraklion , Ibiza , Karpathos , Kos , Marsa Alam , Menorca , Palma de Mallorca , Rhodes , Sal ,[ 32] Sharm El Sheikh
Nile Air Cairo [ 33]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen ,[ 34] Helsinki ,[ 34] Oslo Seasonal: Bergen , Harstad/Narvik ,[ 35] Stavanger ,[ 34] Tromsø
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Ryanair [ 36] Agadir , Alghero , Alicante , Amman , Athens , Barcelona , Bari , Beauvais , Belfast–International ,[ 37] Beni Mellal ,[ 38] Berlin , Billund , Birmingham , Bratislava (ends 28 March 2025), Brindisi , Bristol , Brno , Bucharest–Otopeni , Budapest , Cagliari , Catania , Charleroi , Cluj-Napoca , Cologne/Bonn , Copenhagen , Crotone , Dublin , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Eindhoven , Faro , Fès , Fuerteventura , Gdańsk , Gran Canaria , Hahn , Hamburg (ends 28 March 2025), Helsinki , Iași , Katowice , Kaunas ,[ 39] [ 40] Kraków , Lamezia Terme , Lanzarote , Lisbon , Liverpool , London–Stansted ,[ 41] Lourdes , Lublin , Luxembourg , Madrid , Málaga , Malta , Manchester , Marrakesh , Marseille , Naples , Newcastle upon Tyne , Olbia ,[ 42] Palermo , Palma de Mallorca , Paphos , Pescara (ends 29 March 2025),[ 43] Porto ,[ 44] Poznan , Prague , Riga , Rovaniemi ,[ 40] Salerno ,[ 45] Sandefjord , Santander , Santiago de Compostela , Sarajevo ,[ 46] Seville , Sofia , Stockholm–Arlanda , Tallinn , Tangier ,[ 47] Tel Aviv (resumes 1 April 2025),[ 48] Tenerife–South , Thessaloniki , Tirana ,[ 49] Toulouse , Trapani , Valencia , Vienna , Vilnius , Vitoria , Warsaw–Modlin , Wrocław , Zagreb ,[ 50] Zaragoza Seasonal: Biarritz ,[ 51] Castellón ,[ 51] Chania , Corfu , Cork , Dubrovnik ,[ 52] Heraklion , Ibiza , Kalamata , Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden ,[ 53] Kefalonia , Knock , Kos , Lappeenranta ,[ 54] Łódź ,[ 55] Menorca ,[ 56] Preveza , Rhodes , Santorini , Skiathos ,[ 39] [ 51] Weeze , Zadar ,[ 57] Zakynthos
Sky Alps Mostar (begins 15 May 2025)[ 58]
SpiceJet Seasonal: Amritsar
Transavia Rotterdam/The Hague [ 59]
Volotea Asturias , Nantes Seasonal: Lampedusa , Olbia , Pantelleria
Wizz Air Belgrade , Bucharest–Otopeni , Cluj-Napoca , Craiova , Iași , Sofia , Tel Aviv , Timișoara , Tirana , Warsaw–Chopin
Cargo
Statistics
Apron view
Aerial view
Departures area
Traffic
Orio al Serio Airport – traffic information[ 61]
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%)
2021
6,467,296 (+68.7%)
51,879 (+34.2%)
26,044 (−49.5%)
2022
13,155 806 (+130,4%)
88,846 (+71,3%)
20,827 (-20%)
2023
15,974,386 (+21.4%)
101,696 (+14.5%)
21,101
Busiest domestic routes
Busiest domestic routes from/to Bergamo (2023) [ 62]
Rank
Rank(v. 2022)
Airport
Passengers
Airline(s)
1
Naples , Campania
445,368
Ryanair
2
2
Brindisi , Apulia
417,513
Ryanair
3
2
Palermo , Sicily
415,216
Ryanair
4
2
Bari , Apulia
409,862
Ryanair
5
2
Catania , Sicily
388,104
AeroItalia , Neos , Ryanair
6
Cagliari , Sardinia
386,340
Ryanair
7
Lamezia Terme , Calabria
340,902
Ryanair
Busiest European routes
Busiest European Routes from/to Bergamo (2023) [ 62]
Rank
Rank(v. 2022)
Airport
Passengers
Airline(s)
1
Bucharest , Romania
444,959
Ryanair , Wizz Air
2
Barcelona , Spain
388,883
Ryanair
3
Lisbon , Portugal
311,802
Ryanair
4
Brussels , Belgium
285,364
Ryanair
5
2
Sofia , Bulgaria
272,448
Ryanair , Wizz Air
6
1
Dublin , Ireland
265,699
Ryanair
7
1
Madrid , Spain
256,715
Ryanair
8
Budapest , Hungary
235,209
Ryanair , Wizz Air
9
3
Valencia , Spain
231,708
Ryanair
10
18
Cluj Napoca , Romania
230,690
Ryanair , Wizz Air
11
13
Vienna , Austria
228,500
Ryanair
12
3
Copenhagen , Denmark
219,029
Norwegian Air Shuttle , Ryanair
13
2
Prague , Czech Republic
216,251
Ryanair
14
Paris–Beauvais , France
200,586
Ryanair
15
16
Iasi , Romania
197,391
Ryanair , Wizz Air
16
3
Cologne , Germany
196,990
Ryanair
17
2
Krakow , Poland
193,142
Ryanair
Busiest non-EU routes
Busiest non-EU routes from/to Bergamo (2023) [ 62]
Rank
Rank(v. 2022)
Airport
Passengers
Airline(s)
1
London-Stansted , United Kingdom
514,951
Ryanair
2
Tirana , Albania
363,105
Ryanair , Wizz Air
3
Istanbul , Turkey
344,066
AJet , Pegasus Airlines
4
Manchester , United Kingdom
165,621
Ryanair
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.[ 63]
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 (980 ft) 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.[ 64]
On 1 October 2024, four tires of a Ryanair -operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 burst on the runway after landing, forcing the plane to a stop and damaging 450 meters of the runway.[ 65] Flights were temporarily suspended.[ 66]
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.[ 67] 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, scheduled to open in 2026,[ 68] 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.[ 69]
See also
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