Il Caravaggio International Airport

Il Caravaggio International Airport Aeroporto di Bergamo-Orio al Serio
IATA: BGY – ICAO: LIME
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SACBO
Serves	Bergamo and Milan
Location	Orio al Serio, Lombardy, Italy
Hub for	DHL Aviation Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates
Website	www.orioaeroporto.it/en/
Map
BGY Location of airport on map of Bergamo Location of airport on map of Lombardy BGY Location of Lombardy region in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,934 9,630 Asphalt 12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 8.696.085 Passenger change 13-14 2.1% Aircraft movements 67.674 Movements change 13-14 5.7%
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL Statistics from Assaeroporti

Il Caravaggio International Airport (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME), also known as Orio al Serio Airport, is an international airport located in the municipal territory of Orio al Serio, 2 nautical miles (3.7 kilometres; 2.3 miles) southeast of Bergamo in Italy. The airport is 45 km (28 mi) north-east of Milan, which it serves together with Malpensa Airport and Linate Airport, the city's two primary airports. The airport served 8,696,085 passengers in 2014 and is the fourth busiest in Italy.

The airport is managed by SACBO, a company partially owned by SEA, the operator of Linate and Malpensa airports. SEA, the company that runs the latter two airports, also holds a 31% stake in SACBO. It is named "Il Caravaggio" after the Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who lived as a child at Caravaggio in the Province of Bergamo.

Services

Ground handling services are provided by the SACBO and Airport Global 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 (Fidelitas).

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal charter: Heraklion
AlMasria Universal Airlines	Cairo
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Cairo	Seasonal charter: Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Sharm el-Sheikh
AlbaStar	Seasonal charter: Ibiza, Karpathos, Lourdes, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca
Blue Air	Bacău, Bucharest, Constanța
Blu-express operated by Blue Panorama Airlines	Tirana Seasonal: Heraklion, Mykonos, Rhodes, Skiathos, Santorini, Zakynthos
Denim Air	Charter: Reggio Calabria, Stuttgart (begins 1 February 2016)
Jetairfly	Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca
Meridiana	Naples Seasonal: Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Marsa Alam, Mostar, Mykonos, Olbia, Luxor, Sharm el-Sheikh Seasonal charter: Aqaba, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Sal
Mistral Air	Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria, Kos, Lampedusa, Lanzarote, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Palermo, Tenerife-South
Neos	Seasonal: Ibiza, Kos, Karpathos, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca Seasonal charter: Djerba, Lampedusa, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Monastir, Sharm el-Sheikh
Nouvelair	Seasonal charter: Djerba, Monastir
Onur Air	Seasonal charter: Antalya, Izmir
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Pobeda	Moscow-Vnukovo
Ryanair	Alghero, Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bratislava, Brindisi, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Crotone, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Fes, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Lourdes, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Moss, Palermo, Pescara, Porto, Riga, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tallinn, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Trapani, Valencia, Vilnius, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław, Zaragoza Seasonal: Billund, Bremen, Bristol, Cephalonia, Chania, Corfu, Cork, Gothenburg, Ibiza, Kalamata, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Santander, Santiago de Compostela
SmartLynx Airlines	Seasonal: Riga
TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	Seasonal: Sal
Tunisair	Seasonal charter: Enfidha
Volotea	Seasonal: Lampedusa, Pantelleria
Wizz Air	Bucharest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Debrecen, Gdańsk, Iași, Katowice, Košice, Poznań, Prague, Skopje, Sofia, Târgu Mureş, Timişoara, Vilnius, Warsaw-Chopin

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
DHL Aviation	Belgrade, Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Geneva, Ljubljana
DHL Aviation operated by EAT Leipzig	Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Châlons Vatry, East Midlands, Leipzig/Halle, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Treviso
DHL Aviation operated by Swiftair	Ancona, Vitoria, East Midlands
UPS Airlines operated by Star Air (Maersk)	Bologna, Cologne/Bonn, Pescara

Statistics

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%)
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%)

Busiest domestic routes from Bergamo (from 2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2014	Passengers 2013	Passengers 2012 (o.w.)	Airline
1	Bari, Apulia	395,912	398,801	185,188	Ryanair
2	Cagliari, Sardinia	351,967	378,223	189,440	Ryanair
3	Lamezia Terme, Calabria	337,278	344,402	175,985	Ryanair
4	Brindisi, Apulia	321,557	320,075	160,847	Ryanair
5	Catania, Sicily	316,688	197,628	n.a.	Ryanair
6	Palermo, Sicily	316,099	310,468	151,766	Ryanair
7	Trapani, Sicily	221,158	225,746	111,730	Ryanair
8	Alghero, Sardinia	171,972	169,041	85,680	Ryanair
9	Pescara, Abruzzo	149,862	151,389	78,868	Ryanair

Busiest European Routes from Bergamo (from 2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2014	Passengers 2013	Passengers 2012	Airline
1	London-Stansted, United Kingdom	433,762	372,387	346,870	Ryanair
2	Charleroi, Belgium	276,701	298,445	293,707	Ryanair
3	Barcelona, Spain	249,108	223,236	299,985	Ryanair
4	Beauvais, France	216,251	218,509	219,474	Ryanair
5	Valencia, Spain	206,733	196,978	186,484	Ryanair
6	Madrid, Spain	170,258	125,762	201,613	Ryanair
7	Dublin, Ireland	148,368	132,571	123,659	Ryanair
8	Bucharest, Romania	144,255	152,895	159,272	Blue Air, Wizz Air
9	Manchester, United Kingdom	118,321	114,136	102,345	Ryanair
10	Berlin-Schönefeld, Germany	116,148	83,651	89,554	Ryanair
11	Vilnius, Lithuania	113,560	99,493	95,044	Ryanair, Wizz Air
12	Sevilla, Spain	112,252	110,611	112,710	Ryanair
13	Stockholm-Skavsta, Sweden	110,575	112,713	112,259	Ryanair
14	Kraków, Poland	109,426	110,264	104,214	Ryanair
15	Eindhoven, Netherlands	109,320	109,824	107,090	Ryanair
16	Ibiza, Spain	105,693	95,678	97,635	AlbaStar, Ryanair
17	Sofia, Bulgaria	98,201	102,546	94,794	Wizz Air
18	Luqa, Malta	92,244	78,863	-	Ryanair
19	Budapest, Hungary	91,377	102,955	185,536	Ryanair
20	Porto, Portugal	90,419	93,279	n.a.	Ryanair

Busiest non-EU Routes from Bergamo (from 2012)

Rank	City	Passengers 2014	Passengers 2013	Passengers 2012	Airline
1	Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey	107,222	120,750	106,643	Pegasus Airlines
2	Marsa Alam, Egypt	75,919	57,838	64,772	Neos, Meridiana, Small Planet, Trawel Fly
3	Casablanca, Morocco	72,808	79,882	63,737	Air Arabia Maroc
4	Kyiv, Ukraine	63,817	84,543	n.a.	Wizz Air
5	Tirana, Albania	52,276	63,730	n.a.	Belle Air

Accidents and incidents

• On 8 February 1989, a Boeing 707 operated by Independent Air en route to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic crashed into the mountains of Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, during an approach to the island airport for a stopover, and killed all the 144 passengers and crew on board.
• On 1 July 2002, a Boeing 757-23AF operated by DHL Aviation had taken off from Bergamo and was involved in the Überlingen mid-air collision with a BAL Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M whilst over Lake Constance, near Überlingen, Germany. All 71 people on board the two aircraft were killed

Ground transportation

There are several public transportation links to and from downtown Milan, including express coaches and a combination of local buses and train connections. There are further connections to/from Bergamo city center, Brescia, Monza, Turin, Malpensa Airport, and Milan Trade Exhibition Center. Car rentals (also with drivers) and taxis are available in the arrivals section.

See also

• Bergamo
• Transport in Milan
• List of airports in Italy

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BGY at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for LIME at NOAA/NWS