Bolzano Airport
Bolzano Airport Aeroporto di Bolzano Flughafen Bozen | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | ABD Airport AG/S.p.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bolzano, Italy | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 270 m / 787.4 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°27′37″N 011°19′35″E / 46.46028°N 11.32639°E | ||||||||||
| Website | bolzanoairport.it | ||||||||||
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Bolzano Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bolzano — Dolomiti, German: Flughafen Bozen — Dolomiten) (IATA: BZO, ICAO: LIPB) is a small regional airport near Bolzano in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.
History
The airport was created in October 1926 with a 1300-meter landing runway.[2]
In June 2016, a public opinion poll decided to no longer support the highly deficient airport with money from the government. Therefore, it was decided that the airport's operator company would be liquidated and the licence given back to the Italian authorities, which means the airport would be shut down entirely if no other operator were found.
South Tyrol spent over €120 million in recent years for the airport without attracting any lasting scheduled traffic.[3] Darwin Airline ceased their PSO-flights to Rome on behalf of Alitalia on 18 June 2015 leaving Bolzano Airport again without any scheduled commercial traffic.[4]
In 2019, the South Tyrol government sold the airport to ABD Holding, a private company of entrepreneurs Josef Gostner, René Benko and Hans Peter Haselsteiner, for a price of 3.8 million euros.[5] The airport extended its runway to 1,462 m in late 2021.[6]
In March 2021, a helicopter owned by the Gardia di Finanza, crash landed at the airport. The helicopter was quite new.[7]
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bolzano Airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| SkyAlps | Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg Seasonal: Antwerp (begins 21 December 2022),[8][9] Billund (begins 7 January 2023),[8] Brač, Brindisi, Brussels, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik (begins 27 May 2023),[10] Ibiza, Kassel (begins 1 May 2023),[11] Lamezia Terme, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rotterdam/The Hague, Zurich |
Statistics
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
See also
References
- ^ "Traffic Data 2019" (PDF).
- ^ "ITALIAN BOLZANO ( ALTO ADIGE)". 6612springbottomway.blogspot.com.
- ^ aerotelegraph.com - "South Tyroleans do not want to support Bolzano Airport anymore" 14 June 2016
- ^ "Etihad Regional stellt Bozen-Rom ein - Austrian Aviation Net". Archived from the original on 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ "Beim Flughafen haben jetzt die privaten Investoren das Sagen - TGR Tagesschau". TGR. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ "Italy's Sky Alps Resumes Operations With Regional Routes". Routes. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ "Elicottero della Finanza si rovescia in fase di decollo - TGR Bolzano".
- ^ a b "Bozen: Skyalps nimmt Antwerpen und Billund auf". 17 August 2022.
- ^ "SkyAlps start lijndienst van Antwerpen naar Bolzano". 22 August 2022.
- ^ "Skyalps includes Bozen-Kassel". aviation.direct. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ https://italiavola.com/2022/11/23/skyalps-apre-dubrovnik-e-kassel-nel-2023-conferma-ibiza-e-brac/
External links
Media related to Bolzano Airport at Wikimedia Commons
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