Orio al Serio International Airport
Orio al Serio International Airport,[3] (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME)[4][5] the third busiest international airport in Italy,[2] is in Orio al Serio, 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southeast of Bergamo and 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.
Orio al Serio International Airport Milan Bergamo Airport[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | SACBO | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Bergamo, Metropolitan City of Milan | ||||||||||||||
Location | Orio al Serio, Bergamo | ||||||||||||||
Hub for | Ryanair AeroItalia | ||||||||||||||
Focus city for | AlbaStar | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 782 ft / 238 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E | ||||||||||||||
Website | milanbergamoairport.it | ||||||||||||||
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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.[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] There is one passenger terminal and two jet-bridge gates.
In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced plans to relocate their hub from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities.[8] In early 2022, DHL confirmed the end of all operations at Bergamo.[9]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[10]
Cargo
Airlines | Destinations |
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UPS Airlines[20] | Cologne/Bonn |
Statistics



Traffic
Year | Passengers | Movements | Cargo tons |
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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%) |
Busiest routes
Rank | City | Passengers 2014 | Passengers 2013 | Passengers 2012 (o.w.) | Airline |
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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 |
Rank | City | Passengers 2014 | Passengers 2013 | Passengers 2012 | Airline |
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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 |
Rank | City | Passengers 2014 | Passengers 2013 | Passengers 2012 | Airline |
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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, Trawel Fly |
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.[23]
- 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.[24]
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.[25] 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,[26] 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.[27]
References
- "Milan Bergamo Airport • SACBO S.p.A." milanbergamoairport.it.
- "Traffic Data 2019" (PDF). www.assaeroporti.com.
- "Orio al Serio international airport • SACBO S.p.A". Orioaeroporto.it. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- "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.
- "Bergamenglish BGY Edition by Vava77". Milan Bergamo Airport SACBO S.p.A. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- "TRAIL - Portale nazionale delle infrastrutture di trasporto e logistica del sistema camerale". www.trail.unioncamere.it. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
- "Bergamo airport now dedicated to Caravaggio". Best of Bergamo. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- airliners.de (German) 25 March 2021
- ch-aviation.com -DHL Express ends Bergamo, Italy operations 21 January 2022
- "Voli stagionali milan bergamo • SACBO S.p.A."
- "Bergamo: AeroItalia, flights and frequencies on the sales system". italiavola. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- "AeroItalia rimuove altri voli dal sistema di vendita. Apre la Bergamo – Mykonos". 6 February 2023.
- "AeroItalia: Nuovo volo stagionale Bergamo – Palermo". 21 March 2023.
- "Programmazione tour operator • SACBO S.p.A." milanbergamoairport.it.
- https://booking.bluebirdair.com/
- "Norwegian NS23 Oslo Routes Addition -17NOV22". aeroroutes.com. 17 November 2022.
- "Ryanair apre Zante, Brno e Rijeka da Bergamo per l'estate 2023". 19 November 2022.
- "Orario Voli stagionale BGY-CMN" [Timetable BGY CMN]. milanbergamoairport.it (in Italian). 9 March 2023.
- "Wizz Air to base fourth jet in Belgrade, launch five new routes".
- airlineroutemaps.com - UPS United Parcel Service retrieved 16 July 2020
- "assaeroporti.com" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- "ENAC: Italy's Traffic Statistics 2011" (PDF). 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
- 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.
- "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-476SF HA-FAX Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". Aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- "Bus SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- "Treno per Orio: tracciato sotterraneo, 4 binari e corse per Bergamo ogni 10 minuti". BergamoNews (in Italian). 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- "Train SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.
External links
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