Bolzano Airport

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.

Bolzano Airport

Aeroporto di Bolzano

Flughafen Bozen
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorABD Airport AG/S.p.A.
ServesBolzano, Italy
Elevation AMSL270 m / 787.4 ft
Coordinates46°27′37″N 011°19′35″E
Websitebolzanoairport.it
Map
Bolzano Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 1,462 4,797 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers10780
Passenger change 18-19 -41,7%
Aircraft movements13228
Movements change 18-19 6.2%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [1]

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]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
SkyAlps Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Brač, Brindisi (begins 25 May 2022),[7] Brussels, Cagliari (begins 29 May 2022),[7] Catania, Copenhagen, Ibiza, Lamezia Terme (begins 25 May 2022),[7] Olbia, Palma de Mallorca (begins 13 May 2022),[7] Rotterdam/The Hague, Zurich (begins 1 July 2022)[8]
Seasonal charter: Maribor (begins 30 June 2022)[9]

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at BZO airport. See source Wikidata query.

See also

References
  1. "Traffic Data 2019" (PDF).
  2. "ITALIAN BOLZANO ( ALTO ADIGE)". 6612springbottomway.blogspot.com.
  3. aerotelegraph.com - "South Tyroleans do not want to support Bolzano Airport anymore" 14 June 2016
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Beim Flughafen haben jetzt die privaten Investoren das Sagen - TGR Tagesschau". TGR. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  6. "Italy's Sky Alps Resumes Operations With Regional Routes". Routes. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  7. "SkyAlps: In vendita l'estate 2022". 23 December 2021.
  8. https://italiavola.com/2022/05/01/skyalps-volera-a-zurigo-da-luglio/
  9. "Italy's Sky Alps to launch Maribor flights".

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