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Orio al Serio International Airport
Aeroporto di Milano-Orio al Serio
Aeroporto Orio al Serio.jpg
IATA: BGY – ICAO: LIME
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator SACBO (Società Aeroporto Civile Bergamo Orio al Serio)
Serves Milan
Location Bergamo, Italy
Elevation AMSL 782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028 (Orio al Serio International Airport)Coordinates: 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028 (Orio al Serio International Airport)
Website www.sacbo.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,934 9,630 Asphalt
12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Orio al Serio International Airport (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME) is an airport located in Orio al Serio, 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast[1] of Bergamo, Italy. It is popular with low-cost airlines offering flights to Milan, although the city is 45 km away from the airport. Orio al Serio is operated by SACBO (Società Aeroporto Civile Bergamo Orio al Serio). The airport served almost 6.5 million passengers in 2008. The airport, with Linate Airport and Malpensa International Airport, forms Milan's airport system.

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Traffic

Orio al Serio Airport – Traffic Information
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%)

Ground handling

Ground handling services are provided by the SACBO and Airport Global Services. However, the first private handler to enter the Orio Al Serio market was ASA Handling which started handling TUIfly but went bankrupt shortly afterwards.

Security services

Security services were formerly provided by SACBO with the supervision of the Polizia di Frontiera (Border Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Police) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority). Due to labour disputes and costs the security services have been outsourced to a private security firm (Veritas).

Transport

Reaching the airport by bus: Terravision and Autostradale run a service between the airport and the Central station in Milan city center. ATM does runs a bus service between the airport and the Railway Station.[2]

Reaching the airport by train: There is a direct bus service called "Airport Bus"[3] from Bergamo railway station to the airport provided by the local transport company of Bergamo, the trip costs 1,70€ and lasts 15 minutes.[2]. From the Bergamo railway station, there are trains to Milan, Brescia and Lecco.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
Air Italy Olbia
Air Memphis Sharm el-Sheikh
Air Slovakia Bratislava
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino
Belle Air Pristina, Tirana
Blue Air Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa, Naples, Sibiu
Carpatair Timişoara
Danube Wings Kosice
Iceland Express Reykjavík-Keflavík [begins June]
Jet2.com Leeds/Bradford
Livingston Energy Flight Ibiza
Lotus Air Cairo, Hurghada
Meridiana operated by Eurofly Sharm el-Sheikh
Nouvelair Djerba, Monastir
Onur Air Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund, Bratislava, Bremen, Brindisi [ends 22 January], Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Fez, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Granada, Ibiza, Krakow, Lamezia Terme, Liverpool, Lleida [begins 2 April], London-Stansted, Madrid, Nantes, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Palermo [ends 22 January], Paris-Beauvais, Pescara, Porto, Riga, Rome-Ciampino , Santander, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tangier, Tampere, Trapani [ends 22 January], Valencia, Valladolid, Weeze, Zaragoza[4]
Trawel Fly Catania, Cagliari, Crotone, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Naples, Olbia, Reggio Calabria, Rhodes, Tenerife-South
Wind Jet Catania
Wizz Air Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk, Katowice, Prague, Sofia, Timişoara, Warsaw, Wroclaw [begins 20 March]

Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
DHL Aviation Belgrade,Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Geneva, Ljubljana, Sofia
DHL Aviation operated by European Air Transport Athens, Brussels, Budapest, East Midlands, Leipzig/Halle, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Tel Aviv, Treviso, Vatry
DHL Aviation operated by Swiftair Ancona, Vitoria
MiniLiner Belgrade, Zagreb
United Parcel Service operated by Star Air (Maersk Air) Bologna, Cologne/Bonn, Pescara

References

  1. ^ a b EAD Basic
  2. ^ a b http://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=2658&currentMenu=2175
  3. ^ http://www.atb.bergamo.it/airportbus/
  4. ^ "Aeroporto di Milano - Orio al Serio / VOLI DI LINEA - PARTENZE" (PDF). http://www.sacbo.it/docs/TTLinea_Novembre(1).pdf. Retrieved 2005-10-26. 

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