Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła
Summary
Airport typePublic-Civil-Military
OperatorAeroporti di Puglia
ServesBari, Italy
Focus city forRyanair
Volotea
Elevation AMSL187 ft / 57 m
Coordinates41°08′19.88″N 16°45′38.14″E / 41.1388556°N 16.7605944°E / 41.1388556; 16.7605944
Websiteaeroportidipuglia.it
Map
BRI is located in Apulia
BRI
BRI
Location of the airport in Italy
BRI is located in Italy
BRI
BRI
BRI (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,842 3,000 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers6,205,461
Passenger change 21-22Increase 88.7%
Movements51,838
Movements change 21-22Increase 57.4%
Cargo (tons)2,430
Cargo change 21-22Increase 1.2%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła) (IATA: BRI, ICAO: LIBD) is an airport serving the city of Bari in Italy. It is approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) northwest from the town centre. Named after Pope John Paul II, who was born Karol Wojtyła, the airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 6,461,179 passengers in 2023.[2]

History

Early years

The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s, by the Regia Aeronautica. During World War II Italian Campaign, it was seized by the British Eighth Army in late September 1943, and turned into an Allied military airfield. Until the end of the war in May 1945, it was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces both as an operational airfield as well as a command and control base. In addition, the airfield was used by the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), and the Balkan Air Force. After the war, it was turned over to the postwar Air Force of the Italian Republic (Aeronautica Militare Italiana).

In the 1960s, it was opened to civil flights and Alitalia schedules regular flights to Rome, Catania, Palermo, Ancona, Venice. The routes were later taken over by ATI, using a Fokker F27 airplane. When ATI put into operation the new DC-9-30 it became necessary to create a new runway, while the military complex was still used as passenger terminal.

In 1981, a new building was completed, originally intended to be used as a cargo terminal, but it became in fact the airport's new passenger terminal.

Development since the 1990s

In 1990, with the 1990 FIFA World Cup, the runway was extended and the terminal was upgraded, going through a further renovation in 2000. However, the traffic increase showed the infrastructural limitations of the airport and in 2002 the founding stone of the new passenger terminal was laid out. At the same time, flight infrastructures (aircraft parking areas, runway etc.) were upgraded. In 2005, the new terminal was completed and opened to passengers.[citation needed]

In 2005, construction works for a new control tower began and they were completed the following year. In 2006, a further extension of the runway was begun, and in 2007, the planning of an extension of the passenger terminals was commissioned. They were upgraded in 2005–2006 with the opening of a new passenger terminal equipped with 4 jet bridges and a multistorey car park.[citation needed]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled, seasonal, and charter flights to and from Bari:[3]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
BH Air Seasonal: Sofia
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva (begins 4 May 2024),[4] London–Gatwick, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover (begins 28 April 2024),[5] Stuttgart
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Luxair Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen (begins 22 June 2024),[6] Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 4 May 2024)[6]
Ryanair Athens (begins 1 April 2024),[7] Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Genoa, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kraków, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga (begins 3 April 2024),[7] Malta, Milan–Malpensa, Palermo, Pisa, Prague, Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Tirana (begins 1 April 2024),[8] Toulouse (begins 1 April 2024),[7] Trieste, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Seasonal: Alghero, Alicante, Billund, Bordeaux, Dublin, Dubrovnik (begins 31 March 2024),[7] Edinburgh, Girona (begins 2 July 2024),[9][10] Ibiza, Kaunas, Maastricht,[11] Marseille, Nuremberg, Porto,[11] Poznań, Rhodes (begins 4 May 2024),[12] Seville,[11] Skiathos
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen
Sky Alps Seasonal: Mostar (begins 2 May 2024)[13]
Transavia Amsterdam, Brussels (begins 27 June 2024)[14]
Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Volotea Florence
Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao (begins 5 July 2024),[15] Comiso (begins 5 July 2024),[15] Corfu, Dubrovnik (begins 4 July 2024),[15] Heraklion, Lyon, Málaga (begins 6 July 2024),[15] Mykonos, Olbia, Preveza (begins 3 July 2024),[15] Rhodes (begins 4 July 2024),[15] Santorini, Skiathos, Split (begins 5 July 2024),[15] Toulouse (begins 4 July 2024),[16] Zakynthos
Vueling Barcelona, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Florence
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Sofia, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca,[17] Wrocław

Statistics

Departure area
Control tower
Annual passenger traffic at BRI airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

Road

The airport can be reached by the ring road of Bari and from the A14 motorway.

Rail

The Bari metropolitan railway service connects the Airport with the Bari Centrale railway station in the city centre.

Bus

AMTAB buses provide public transportation to the airport from the city centre (Line 16). Pugliairbus is a seasonal bus transportation service which operates interconnection service with Brindisi and Foggia airports. Pugliairbus also reaches touristic locations. Tempesta auto servizi also offers a shuttle between the airport and city centre.

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

  1. ^ "Statistics" (PDF). Assaeroporti.
  2. ^ "Nel 2023 record passeggeri Aeroporti Puglia,quasi 10 milioni". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ^ aeroportidipuglia.it - Bari - Destinations Archived 15 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine www.aeroportidipuglia.it accessed 25 May 2022
  4. ^ "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA".
  5. ^ "Eurowings NS24 Hanover / Nuremberg Network Expansion". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Norwegian NS24 Network Additions – 14NOV23".
  7. ^ a b c d "Ryanair".
  8. ^ "Ryanair NS24 Network Additions – 10DEC23". AeroRoutes.
  9. ^ https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240207-frns24
  10. ^ "Ryanair".
  11. ^ a b c "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  12. ^ "Ryanair NS24 Network Additions – 10DEC23".
  13. ^ https://www.flyingbosnian.blogspot.com/2024/02/skyalps-schedules-mostar-flights-launch.html
  14. ^ "Transavia apre Bari-Bruxelles nel 2024". 20 September 2023.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g "Volotea Announces New Base in Bari, Italy". 14 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Volotea apre una nuov base a Bari [...]" [Volotea gto open a new base in Bari [...]]. bari.corriere.it (in Italian). 28 November 2023.
  17. ^ "Wizz Air suspendă rute din București și Cluj Napoca în octombrie 2023". 28 September 2023.
  18. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 19 November 2022.

External links

Media related to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport at Wikimedia Commons