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 1,294 4,245 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 Tirol 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]

Airlines and destinations

There are currently no scheduled flights from the airport, although a start-up company named SkyAlps is planning to start operations from Bolzano Airport to several Italian destinations.[5]

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
  5. TT-Consulting. "Sky Alps › the first South Tyrolean Airline". skyalps.com. Retrieved 2020-12-19.

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