Milan Bergamo Airport

Il Caravaggio International Airport

Aeroporto Internazionale Il Caravaggio
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSACBO
ServesBergamo, Metropolitan City of Milan
LocationOrio al Serio, Lombardy, Italy
Operating base for
Elevation AMSL782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028
Websitewww.milanbergamoairport.it
Map
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Location of airport on map of Bergamo
BGY is located in Lombardy
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BGY is located in Italy
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Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,937 9,630 Asphalt
12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers13,155,806
Passenger change 21-22Increase 103.4%
Movements88,846
Movements change 21-22Increase 71.3%
Cargo (tons)20,826.7
Cargo change 21-22Decrease -20.0%
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP, Assaeroporti[1]

Orio al Serio International Airport,[2] also styled as Milan Bergamo Airport for commercial purposes,[3][4] (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME) 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.[5]

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. The airport is part of the airport network of the Milan metropolitan area, alongside Malpensa Airport and Linate Airport. The airport served almost 13 million passengers in 2018 and is one of Ryanair's three largest operating bases, along with Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport.[6]

Together with Malpensa Airport and Linate Airport, it forms the Milan airport system with 42.2 million passengers in 2022, the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers.[7]

Overview

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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 airport has one passenger terminal and two jet-bridge gates.[citation needed]

The terminal is split into two zones, A (Gates A1-A15) and B (Gates B1-B5). Gates A13 and B5 are equipped with boarding bridges; the remaining gates are remote gates.

In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced plans to relocate their hub from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities.[9] In early 2022, DHL confirmed the end of all operations at Bergamo.[10]

Airlines and destinations

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Passenger

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The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo:[11]

AirlinesDestinations
AeroItalia Palermo,[12] Perugia (ends 30 December 2024),[13] Rome–Fiumicino[14]
Seasonal: Catania, Comiso, Heraklion, Karpathos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Olbia, Zakynthos
Air Arabia Alexandria, Cairo, Casablanca, Fès,[15] Sharjah
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh (begins 3 April 2025)[16]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca[17]
AJet Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[18]
AlbaStar Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Lourdes, Sal
Seasonal charter: Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh
AlMasria Universal Airlines Seasonal: Cairo
Bees Airlines Suceava[19]
Cabo Verde Airlines Sal[20]
Dan Air Bacău[21]
easyJet London–Gatwick (ends 5 January 2025)[22]
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Hannover[23]
flydubai Dubai–International
Georgian Airways Tbilisi[24]
HiSky Chișinău, Oradea[25]
Israir Tel Aviv (resumes 11 January 2025)[26]
Lumiwings Foggia[27]
Neos Seasonal: Amritsar, Catania, Heraklion, Karpathos, Kos, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Rhodes, Sharm El Sheikh
Nile Air Cairo[28]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen,[29] Helsinki,[29] Oslo
Seasonal: Bergen, Harstad/Narvik (begins 23 December 2024),[30] Stavanger,[29] Tromsø
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Ryanair[31][32] Agadir, Alghero, Alicante, Amman, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Belfast–International,[33] Beni Mellal,[34] Berlin, Billund, Birmingham, Bratislava (ends 28 March 2025), Brindisi, Bristol, Brno, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Crotone, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fès, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Hamburg, Helsinki, Iași, Katowice, Kaunas,[35][36] Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Stansted,[37] Lourdes, Lublin, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Olbia,[38] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Paris-Orly (begins 1 April 2025),[39] Pescara (ends 29 march 2025),[40] Porto,[41] Poznan, Prague, Riga, Rovaniemi,[42] Salerno,[43] Sandefjord, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Sarajevo,[44] Seville, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tallinn, Tangier,[45] Tel Aviv,[46] Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Tirana,[47] Toulouse, Trapani, Valencia, Vienna, Vilnius, Vitoria, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb,[48] Zaragoza
Seasonal: Biarritz,[35][49] Castellón,[50] Chania, Corfu, Cork, Dubrovnik,[51] Heraklion, Ibiza, Kalamata, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[52] Kefalonia, Knock, Kos, Lappeenranta,[53] Łódź,[54] Menorca,[55] Preveza, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos,[35][56] Weeze, Zadar,[57] Zakynthos
SpiceJet Seasonal: Amritsar
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Casablanca
Volotea Asturias
Seasonal: Lampedusa, Lyon, Nantes, Olbia, Pantelleria
Vueling Paris–Orly
Wizz Air Belgrade, Bucharest–Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[58] Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

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Apron view
Aerial view
Departures area
Ryanair Boeing 737s at the airport
Ryanair Boeing 737s at the airport

Traffic

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Annual passenger traffic at BGY airport. See Wikidata query.
Orio al Serio Airport – traffic information[59]
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%) 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 15,974,386 (+21.4%) 101,696 (+14.5%) 21,101

Busiest domestic routes

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Busiest domestic routes from/to Bergamo (2023)[60]
Rank Rank
(v. 2022)		 Airport Passengers Airline(s)
1 Steady

Campania Naples, Campania

Decrease 445,368

Ryanair

2 Increase 2

Apulia Brindisi, Apulia

Increase 417,513

Ryanair

3 Increase 2

Sicily Palermo, Sicily

Increase 415,216

Ryanair

4 Decrease 2

Apulia Bari, Apulia

Increase 409,862

Ryanair

5 Decrease 2

Sicily Catania, Sicily

Increase 388,104

AeroItalia, Neos, Ryanair

6 Steady

Sardinia Cagliari, Sardinia

Increase 386,340

Ryanair

7 Steady

Calabria Lamezia Terme, Calabria

Increase 340,902

Ryanair

Busiest European routes

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Busiest European Routes from/to Bergamo (2023)[60]
Rank Rank
(v. 2022)		 Airport Passengers Airline(s)
1 Steady

Romania Bucharest, Romania

Increase 444,959

Ryanair, Wizz Air

2 Steady

Spain Barcelona, Spain

Increase 388,883

Ryanair

3 Steady

Portugal Lisbon, Portugal

Increase 311,802

Ryanair

4 Steady

Belgium Brussels, Belgium

Increase 285,364

Ryanair

5 Increase 2

Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria

Increase 272,448

Ryanair, Wizz Air

6 Decrease 1

Republic of Ireland Dublin, Ireland

Increase 265,699

Ryanair

7 Decrease 1

Spain Madrid, Spain

Increase 256,715

Ryanair

8 Steady

Hungary Budapest, Hungary

Increase 235,209

Ryanair, Wizz Air

9 Increase 3

Spain Valencia, Spain

Increase 231,708

Ryanair

10 Increase 18

Romania Cluj Napoca, Romania

Increase230,690

Ryanair, Wizz Air

11 Increase 13

Austria Vienna, Austria

Increase 228,500

Ryanair

12 Decrease 3

Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark

Increase 219,029

Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair

13 Decrease 2

Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic

Increase 216,251

Ryanair

14 Steady

France Paris–Beauvais, France

Increase 200,586

Ryanair

15 Increase 16

Romania Iasi, Romania

Increase 197,391

Ryanair, Wizz Air

16 Decrease 3

Germany Cologne, Germany

Increase 196,990

Ryanair

17 Increase 2

Poland Krakow, Poland

Increase 193,142

Ryanair

Busiest non-EU routes

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Busiest non-EU routes from/to Bergamo (2023)[60]
Rank Rank
(v. 2022)		 Airport Passengers Airline(s)
1 Steady

United Kingdom London-Stansted, United Kingdom

Increase 514,951

Ryanair

2 Steady

Albania Tirana, Albania

Increase 363,105

Ryanair, Wizz Air

3 Steady

Turkey Istanbul, Turkey

Increase 344,066

AJet, Pegasus Airlines

4 Steady

United Kingdom Manchester, United Kingdom

Increase 165,621

Ryanair

Accidents and incidents

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  • 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.[61]
  • 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.[62]
  • On 1 October 2024, four tires of a Ryanair-operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 burst on the runway after landing, forcing the plane to a stop and damaging 450 meters of the runway.[63] Flights were temporarily suspended.[64]

Ground transportation

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Car

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The A4 is one of the main road networks that links the airport.

Bus

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There are several public transportation links to and from downtown Milan, including express coaches.[65] 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

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While a railway station is currently being built at Bergamo airport, scheduled to open in 2026,[66] 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.[67]

See also

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References

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