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]
IATA: BGY ICAO: LIME
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SACBO
Serves	Metropolitan City of Milan
Location	Orio al Serio
Hub for	Ryanair
Focus city for	DHL Aviation
Elevation AMSL	782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates	45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E
Website	milanbergamoairport.it
Map
BGY Location of airport on map of Bergamo Show map of Bergamo BGY BGY (Lombardy) Show map of Lombardy BGY BGY (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,934 9,630 Asphalt 12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 13,857,257 Passenger change 18–19 7.1% Aircraft movements 95,377 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

The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[8]

Airlines	Destinations
Air Albania	Tirana
Air Arabia Egypt	Alexandria–Borg el Arab, Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Cairo	Sharm El Sheikh
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charters: Palma de Mallorca[9]
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Catania, Crotone, Fuerteventura, Lourdes/Tarbes, Marsa Alam, Olbia, Sharm El Sheikh Seasonal charter: Brindisi,[10] Gran Canaria,[10] Lamezia Terme,[10] Lanzarote,[10] Luxor[11] Porto Santo,[11] Tenerife–South[10]
Alitalia	Rome–Fiumicino
AlMasria Universal Airlines	Seasonal: Cairo
Arkia	Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Blue Air	Bacău
Blue Panorama Airlines	Tirana Seasonal: Lampedusa, Sal
British Airways	London–Gatwick
Neos	Seasonal: Cagliari, Catania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Mykonos, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Pobeda	Moscow–Vnukovo
Ryanair	Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia, Athens, Banja Luka (begins 26 October 2020),[12] 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, Kiev–Boryspil, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lappeenranta, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Lourdes/Tarbes, Luxembourg, Lviv, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Naples, Niš, Nuremberg, Odessa, 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, 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
SkyUp	Kiev–Boryspil, Lviv
TUI fly Belgium	Casablanca
Volotea	Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Lampedusa, Olbia, Pantelleria, Split
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona
Wizz Air	Bacău (begins 30 October 2020),[13] Bucharest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Gdańsk, Iași, Katowice, Saint-Petersburg (begins 14 December 2020),[14] Sofia, Suceava, Timişoara, Tirana, Varna, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines[15]	Cologne/Bonn

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)[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, 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.[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

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.[20]

See also

• Transport in Milan
• List of airports in Italy

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. https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/it/orario-voli-charter-stagionale/
10. "TOUR OPERATOR TIMETABLE". milanbergamoairport.it. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
11. "SHORT AND MEDIUM HAUL CHARTER FLIGHTS". albastar.es.
12. http://flyingbosnian.blogspot.com/2020/02/ryanair-to-launch-milan-bergamo-banja.html
13. https://boardingpass.ro/wizz-air-anunta-rute-spre-italia-belgia-germania-cipru-uk-si-danemarca/
14. https://ru.pirates.travel/bilety/wizzair-otkryvaet-novye-napravleniya-iz-spb-letim-v-bolonju-veneciju-milan-turin-i-kataniju-ot-3600-tuda-obratno/138454
15. airlineroutemaps.com - UPS United Parcel Service retrieved 16 July 2020
16. "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. "Train SACBO". Retrieved 25 October 2015.

External links

Media related to Orio al Serio International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BGY at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for LIME at NOAA/NWS