Orio al Serio International Airport

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.

Orio al Serio International Airport

Milan Bergamo Airport[1]
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSACBO
ServesMetropolitan City of Milan
LocationOrio al Serio
Hub forRyanair
Focus city forDHL Aviation
Elevation AMSL782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E
Websitemilanbergamoairport.it
Map
BGY
Location of airport on map of Bergamo
BGY
BGY (Lombardy)
BGY
BGY (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,934 9,630 Asphalt
12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers13,857,257
Passenger change 18–19 7.1%
Aircraft movements95,377
Movements change 18–19 6.5%
Cargo (tons)118,964
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP, Assaeroporti[2]

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]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Following companies operate scheduled and charter services.[8]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal charter: Heraklion[9]
Air Albania Tirana (begins 13 July 2020)[10]
Air Arabia Egypt Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh
Air Dolomiti Seasonal charter: Cagliari,[9] Olbia[9]
Air Prishtina Seasonal charter: Pristina
AlbaStar[11] Seasonal: Catania, Crotone, Fuerteventura, Lourdes/Tarbes, Marsa Alam, Olbia, Sharm El Sheikh
Seasonal charter: Brindisi,[9] Gran Canaria,[9] Heraklion,[9] Ibiza,[9] Karpathos,[9] Kos,[9] Lamezia Terme,[9] Lanzarote,[9] Luxor[12] Málaga,[9] Palma de Mallorca,[9] Porto Santo,[12] Tenerife–South[9]
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Cagliari
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Blue Air Bacău
Blue Panorama Airlines Tirana
Seasonal: Heraklion, Karpathos, Kefalonia, Kos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Rhodes, Sal, Santorini, Zakynthos
British Airways London–Gatwick
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal charter: Catania[9]
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Bodrum[9]
Neos Seasonal: Catania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Menorca, Mykonos, Rhodes
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Pobeda Moscow–Vnukovo
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia, Athens, Banja Luka (begins 26 October 2020),[13] Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Belfast–International, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Bremen, Brindisi, Bristol, Brno, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fes, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Katowice, Kharkiv (begins 7 July 2020), Kiev–Boryspil (begins 6 July 2020), Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lappeenranta, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Lourdes/Tarbes, Luxembourg, Lviv (begins 7 July 2020), Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Naples, Niš, Nuremberg, Odessa (begins 6 July 2020), Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pescara, Porto, Poznan, Prague, Riga, Sandefjord, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sofia, Stockholm–Skavsta, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tangier, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Timișoara, Trapani, Valencia, Vienna,[14] Vilnius, Vitoria, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Yerevan, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Agadir, Aqaba, Billund, Chania, Corfu, Cork, Crotone, Eilat, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Knock, Paphos, Rhodes, Santorini, Tenerife–South, Zadar, Zakynthos
SkyUpKiev–Boryspil, Lviv
TUI fly BelgiumCasablanca
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal: Chernivtsi
Volotea Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Lampedusa, Olbia, Pantelleria, Split
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona
Wizz Air Bacău (begins 30 October 2020),[15] Bucharest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Gdańsk, Iași, Katowice, Sofia, Suceava, Timişoara, Tirana,[16] Varna, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
DHL Aviation Ancona, Athens, Bahrain, Belgrade, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Châlons Vatry, Cologne/Bonn, East Midlands, Geneva, Leipzig/Halle, Ljubljana, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Tel Aviv, Treviso, Vitoria
UPS Airlines Bologna, Cologne/Bonn, Pescara

Statistics

Traffic
Orio al Serio Airport – traffic information
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%) ????? (+?%) 126,000 (+7.0%)
2018 12,937,881 (+4.9%) 89,533 (+?%) 123,031 (−2.3%)

Busiest routes
Busiest domestic routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[17]
RankCityPassengers 2014Passengers 2013Passengers 2012 (o.w.)Airline
1Bari, Apulia395,912398,801185,188Ryanair
2Cagliari, Sardinia351,967378,223189,440Ryanair
3Lamezia Terme, Calabria337,278344,402175,985Ryanair
4Brindisi, Apulia321,557320,075160,847Ryanair
5Catania, Sicily316,688197,628n.a.Ryanair
6Palermo, Sicily316,099310,468151,766Ryanair
7Trapani, Sicily221,158225,746111,730Ryanair
8Alghero, Sardinia171,972169,04185,680Ryanair
9Pescara, Abruzzo149,862151,38978,868Ryanair
Busiest European routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[17]
RankCityPassengers 2014Passengers 2013Passengers 2012Airline
1London–Stansted, United Kingdom433,762372,387346,870Ryanair
2Charleroi, Belgium276,701298,445293,707Ryanair
3Barcelona, Spain249,108223,236299,985Ryanair
4Beauvais, France216,251218,509219,474Ryanair
5Valencia, Spain206,733196,978186,484Ryanair
6Madrid, Spain170,258125,762201,613Ryanair
7Dublin, Ireland148,368132,571123,659Ryanair
8Bucharest, Romania144,255152,895159,272Blue Air, Wizz Air
9Manchester, United Kingdom118,321114,136102,345Ryanair
10Berlin–Schönefeld, Germany116,14883,65189,554Ryanair
11Vilnius, Lithuania113,56099,49395,044Ryanair, Wizz Air
12Sevilla, Spain112,252110,611112,710Ryanair
13Stockholm–Skavsta, Sweden110,575112,713112,259Ryanair
14Kraków, Poland109,426110,264104,214Ryanair
15Eindhoven, Netherlands109,320109,824107,090Ryanair
16Ibiza, Spain105,69395,67897,635AlbaStar, Ryanair
17Sofia, Bulgaria98,201102,54694,794Wizz Air
18Luqa, Malta92,24478,863–Ryanair
19Budapest, Hungary91,377102,955185,536Ryanair
20Porto, Portugal90,41993,279n.a.Ryanair
Busiest non-EU routes from Bergamo (from 2012)[17]
RankCityPassengers 2014Passengers 2013Passengers 2012Airline
1Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey107,222120,750106,643Pegasus Airlines
2Marsa Alam, Egypt75,91957,83864,772Neos, Meridiana, Small Planet, Trawel Fly
3Casablanca, Morocco72,80879,88263,737Air Arabia Maroc
4Kyiv, Ukraine63,81784,543n.a.Wizz Air
5Tirana, Albania52,27663,730n.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.[18]
  • 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.[19]

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.[20] 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

The 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. "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. https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/it/orario-voli-stagionale/
  9. "TOUR OPERATOR TIMETABLE". milanbergamoairport.it. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  10. https://www.varesenews.it/2020/01/ernest-airlines-malpensa-voli-albania/891055/
  11. "Alba Star schedules new sectors from Milan / Verona in S19". routesonline.com. 21 May 2019.
  12. "SHORT AND MEDIUM HAUL CHARTER FLIGHTS". albastar.es.
  13. http://flyingbosnian.blogspot.com/2020/02/ryanair-to-launch-milan-bergamo-banja.html
  14. Liu, Jim. "Ryanair / Laudamotion S20 network consolidation as of 18JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  15. https://boardingpass.ro/wizz-air-anunta-rute-spre-italia-belgia-germania-cipru-uk-si-danemarca/
  16. https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/Hinterland/wizz-air-nuova-rotta-da-orio-al-serioda-marzo-collegamento-con-tirana_1336397_11/
  17. "ENAC: Italy's Traffic Statistics 2011" (PDF). 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2012-12-26.
  18. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Let L-410UVP-E19A 9A-BTA Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". aviation-safety.net.
  19. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-476SF HA-FAX Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". Aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  20. "Bus SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  21. "Train SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.

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