Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

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Bari Airport ( Italian: Aeroporto di Bari Palese " Karol Wojtyla " ) is located eight kilometers north-west of Bari, the capital of the Apulia region. He was named in late 2005 after the late Pope John Paul II ( Karol Wojtyla ). Airport operator, the company Aeroporti di Puglia SpA based in Bari.

Approach

The airport is connected with its own exit to the highway SS 16 Bari Molfetta. There is a rail link opened in 2013, part of the Servizio di Bari ferroviario metropolitano.

Flight operations

Passengers

The airport of Bari grows unabated after several years of development work. In 2008, a total of 2,493,333 passengers flew to or from Bari, in 2009 there were 2,825,456, ie an increase of 12.25 %. 2010, the increase was about 20 percent.

Destinations

Most flights from Bari are domestic connections throughout Italy or connections to Germany. Other Flight Destinations are Bucharest, Timisoara, Tirana, Valencia, Paris, Brussels and London.

Bari is also a strategic base of Ryanair, which (for example, Weeze, Trapani and Valencia) serves a total of 17 routes from Bari. In addition, Bari is in flight by Air Berlin (from Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Saarbrücken and Zurich ), German Wings (from Stuttgart, Cologne, Hannover, Berlin), Easyjet (from Rome and Milan ), more low cost airlines (such example, in the summer of 2009: Germania ) are also represented throughout the summer months.

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Car park

Airport parking

Terminal Exterior

History

The airfield Mare Isabella was from 1909 to 1914, the first airport of the city of Bari. This is also one of the first Aero Club of Italy was founded. After the outbreak of the First World War it was decided the relocation to the present site Palese maquis, which was strategically a bit cheaper. The new airport was modernized in the late 1920s and reopened on 12 October 1930 as a military airfield Umberto di Savoia. 1934 dedicated to a one terminal building for civilian scheduled service. From 1944 to 1946, the airfield by Allied air forces was used, and returned to the Italian Air Force. This opened it up again in 1960 for civilian traffic. Alitalia and its subsidiary ATI taught a number of domestic routes, especially to Rome. For the new jet aircraft, the length of the previous airstrip was not enough (12/ 30) out soon, which is why it was decided in the 1970s, the construction of the runway in use today 07 /25. In 1981, you open a new terminal into service, which has been modernized and extended for the Football World Cup 1990. Already at the World Cup, the airport should get a rail connection, a project whose implementation was delayed a long time. Following further renovations in 2000 followed from 2002 to 2005 the new terminal, the construction of a new control tower, the expansion of the apron, taxiways, and the start and runway. The old, situated in the east 1,680 meters long airstrip 12/30 was first closed and then partially removed. Simultaneously, the local military portion was separated from the rest of the airport grounds. Further modifications and extensions of the airport are planned.

Apulia made ​​aviation history as a springboard Italy to the Orient. For this reason, there are in this region is still a strong concentration of civil and military airfields. The operating company Aeroporti di Puglia runs adjacent to the airport of Bari and Brindisi - Casale Airport traffic and the airports of Taranto and Foggia. The airport of Bari, together with the Airport Brindisi Casale of the most important in the region of Apulia, Taranto and Foggia, however, have only regional importance. In addition, there are military airfields at Foggia in Amendola, Gioia del Colle and Lecce. Taranto - Grottaglie is also Marine Air Station and Brindisi also has a military section. In Lecce is the small civilian airfield Lecce San Cataldo.

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