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Bergamo Airport ( Milan Orio Airport german or Il Caravaggio International Airport -. Bergamo Orio al Serio, it Aeroporto di Bergamo -Orio al Serio ) is an international airport in northern Italy. It is located 45 km northeast of Milan and 5 km southeast of Bergamo in the field of the Lombard community Orio al Serio. This airport is mainly used by low cost airlines and cargo airlines.
Transport links
- Car: The airport is located on the A4 motorway, the main east -west traffic artery of Italy. Both the Milan area and the western Veneto are within easy reach. At the airport the major car rental companies are represented.
- Bus: 31 times daily runs Autostradale to Milan Central Station (journey time approx 65 min). There are also regular bus services to the city of Bergamo and a bus service to Bergamo Train Station. A direct rail link to the airport is planned.
Airlines and destinations
From Bergamo Airport from international and domestic flights are offered. The main objectives are Ibiza, Palma, Rome - Fiumicino, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Berlin Schönefeld, Dublin, London - Stansted, Liverpool, Madrid and Katowice. Most of the compounds exist primarily in vacation spots, to Poland and to the British Isles. One of the biggest airlines in town include Wizz Air and Ryanair. The latter maintains a base in Bergamo.
In the air cargo industry, the airport is mostly serviced by airmail companies. It mainly use the DHL Aviation and certain of its subsidiaries use the airport. Of them, among other things, the routes to Budapest, Cologne / Bonn, Athens, Brussels, Leipzig / Halle, Paris and Tel Aviv are offered. In addition, flying the Star Air, a cargo charter company on behalf of United Parcel Service, to Bologna, Cologne / Bonn and nationally to Pescara. Based in Bergamo mini liner flies to Belgrade and Zagreb.
Due to work on the start and runway, the airport is expected to be closed from 13 May 2014 to 1 June 2014 for commercial aviation. In general, the active in Bergamo airlines move their flights during this period on the Milan Malpensa Airport.
History
The airport was established in 1937 near the river Serio as a military airfield. In the 1950s and 1960s, local entrepreneurs and local politicians demanded a civilian joint use of the airfield, but this failed because of the opposition of the city of Milan and the operators of the local airports of Linate and Malpensa airports. On July 16, 1970, the airport company Società per l' Aeroporto Civile di Bergamo was - Orio al Serio ( SACBO ) founded, which also reached the start of commercial flight operations on 21 March 1972. The civilian flight operations initially developed slowly, although the airport relatively centrally located in the Po Valley and live in its immediate catchment area of around 5 million people. In the late 1980s increased the SEA, the operator of the two Milan airports, SACBO the premises, but not to gain a majority stake. This also failed, the original target project to bring all three airports in the Milan area under control and synergic use. In addition, referring to the town east of Bergamo, Brescia location, also to need its own commercial airport, the airport Brescia - Montichiari, although the Verona airport and Bergamo are easy to reach from there.
In this environment, it was possible to Bergamo since 2002, mainly thanks to the commitment of cargo and low cost airlines such as DHL Aviation and Ryanair, on the one hand to enforce against Brescia and on the other hand to find their own role in the Milan area, as Malpensa for the eastern parts of Milan, Lombardy is unfavorable and Linate has several limitations. The above-average growth of the airport of Bergamo was initiated in the summer of 2002, when Linate had to temporarily close due to the reorganization of the local airstrip and was moved to the flight operations also to Bergamo. On this occasion succeeded Bergamo to convey its potential better.
Currently, the south is the start and runway, the passenger and the cargo terminal. To the north is a small part of military and an area for general aviation with a roughly 800 m long slope. In this northern area of Bergamo airport to be expanded.