Orio al Serio International Airport
Orio al Serio International Airport, branded as Milan Bergamo Airport, is the third busiest international airport in Italy. It is located in the municipal territory of Orio al Serio, southeast of Bergamo in Italy. The airport is 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.
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. 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.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:Cargo
Statistics
Traffic
Busiest routes
Rank | City | Passengers 2014 | Passengers 2013 | Passengers 2012 | 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 |
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.
- On 5 August 2016, during the night, Boeing 737-476 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.
Ground transportation