Milan Bergamo Airport
Il Caravaggio International Airport Aeroporto Internazionale Il Caravaggio | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | SACBO | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Milan metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Orio al Serio, Lombardy, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 782 ft (238 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP, Assaeroporti[1] | |||||||||||||||
Milan Bergamo Airport[2][3] (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME), also formerly known as Orio al Serio International Airport, 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.[4]
The airport served almost 17.4 million passengers in 2024 and is one of Ryanair's four largest operating bases, along with Dublin Airport, London Stansted Airport, and Brussels South Charleroi Airport.[5][6]
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 56.9 million passengers in 2024 constitutes the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers.[6]
In 2024, Milan Bergamo Airport launched a digital twin initiative to simulate airport operations in real time and support infrastructure planning and emergency management.[7]
Overview
[edit]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.[8]
The terminal is split into two zones, A (Gates A1-A15) and B (Gates B1-B5). Gates A13/A14 and A15/A16 are equipped with boarding bridges; the remaining gates are remote gates.[citation needed]
In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced plans to relocate their hub from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities.[citation needed] In early 2022, DHL confirmed the end of all operations at Bergamo.[9]
Airlines and destinations
[edit]Passenger
[edit]The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[10]
Cargo
[edit]| Airlines | Destinations |
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| UPS Airlines[59] | Cologne/Bonn |
Statistics
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Traffic
[edit]| 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%) |
| 2022 | 13,155 806 (+130,4%) | 88,846 (+71,3%) | 20,827 (-20%) |
| 2023 | 15,974,451 (+21.4%) | 101,765 (+14.5%) | 21,105 (+1.3%) |
| 2024 | 17,353,573 (+8,6%) | 109 971 (+8,1%) | 22, 964 (+8,8%) |
Busiest domestic routes
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| 1 |
Naples, Campania |
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| 2 |
Brindisi, Apulia |
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| 3 |
Palermo, Sicily |
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| 4 |
Bari, Apulia |
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| 5 |
Catania, Sicily |
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| 6 |
Cagliari, Sardinia |
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| 7 |
Lamezia Terme, Calabria |
Busiest European routes
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| 1 |
Bucharest, Romania |
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| 2 |
Barcelona, Spain |
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| 3 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
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| 4 |
Brussels, Belgium |
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| 5 |
Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| 6 |
Dublin, Ireland |
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| 7 |
Madrid, Spain |
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| 8 |
Budapest, Hungary |
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| 9 |
Valencia, Spain |
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| 10 |
Cluj Napoca, Romania |
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| 11 |
Vienna, Austria |
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| 12 |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Prague, Czech Republic |
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| 14 |
Paris–Beauvais, France |
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| 15 |
Iasi, Romania |
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| 16 |
Cologne, Germany |
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| 17 |
Krakow, Poland |
Busiest non-EU routes
[edit]| Rank | Rank (v. 2022) | Airport | Passengers | Airline(s) |
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| 1 |
London-Stansted, United Kingdom |
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| 2 |
Tirana, Albania |
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| 3 |
Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 4 |
Manchester, United Kingdom |
Accidents and incidents
[edit]- 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.[62]
- 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.[63]
- On 8 July 2025, a man died after trespassing into the runway and getting sucked into the engine of a departing Volotea aircraft headed to Asturias, Spain in a suspected suicide.[64] The man was identified as a 35-year old from Calcinate, who had a history of substance abuse and had attended rehabilitation programs. The Bergamo Prosecutor's office is investigating the case of "incitement to suicide" and the security measures at the airport.[65][66][67]
Ground transportation
[edit]Car
[edit]The A4 is one of the main road networks that link the airport.[citation needed]
Bus
[edit]There are several public transportation links to and from downtown Milan, including express coaches. The main coach operators at Milan Bergamo Airport include ATB, Orioshuttle, Terravision, Flibco and Autostradale, offering frequent services to central Milan as well as other major cities and regional destinations.[68] There are further connections to/from Bergamo city center, Arezzo, Bologna, Brescia, Monza, Turin, Malpensa Airport, Milan Trade Exhibition Center, Parma, Turin, and Verona.[citation needed]
Railway
[edit]While a railway station is currently being built at Bergamo airport, scheduled to open in 2026,[69] 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.[70]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Traffic Data 2024" (PDF). www.assaeroporti.com.[dead link]
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External links
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Media related to Orio al Serio International Airport at Wikimedia Commons