Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
Aeroporto di Bari "Karol Wojtyła"
Summary
Airport typePublic/Civil/Military
OperatorAeroporti di Puglia
ServesBari
Metropolitan City of Bari
Apulia region
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 (2025)
Passengers7,977,881
Passenger change 24-25Increase 9.7%
Movements56,700
Movements change 24-25Increase 4.4%
Cargo (tons)2,005
Cargo change 24-25Decrease 13.5%
Source: 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 mi) northwest from the city centre. Named after Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), who was born Karol Wojtyła. The airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bari-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.

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 four jet bridges and a multistorey car park.

Airlines and destinations

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens (resumes 26 June 2026)[4]
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh[5]
Air Dolomiti Munich[6]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[7]
Air Serbia Belgrade[8]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna[9]
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[10]
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt[11]
easyJet Milan–Malpensa[12]
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[13] Bristol,[14] Geneva,[15] London–Gatwick,[12] Lyon,[16] Manchester (begins 3 July 2026),[17] Nice,[12] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[12]
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich[18]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[19] Düsseldorf,[20] Hamburg,[21] Stuttgart[22]
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid[23]
Israir Tel Aviv (begins 22 May 2026)[24]
ITA Airways Milan–Linate,[25] Rome–Fiumicino[26]
Lufthansa Frankfurt,[27] Munich[28]
Luxair Luxembourg[29]
Neos Seasonal: Sharm El Sheikh[30]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen,[31] Oslo,[32] Stockholm–Arlanda[33]
Ryanair Athens,[34] Bergamo,[34] Berlin (ends 24 October 2026),[34] Bologna,[34] Bratislava,[35] Bucharest–Băneasa,[34] Brussels-Charleroi,[34] Budapest,[34] Cagliari,[34] Catania,[36] Frankfurt-Hahn,[34] Genoa,[34] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[34] Katowice,[37] Kraków,[34] Linz,[34] London–Stansted,[34] Madrid,[34] Málaga,[34] Malta,[34] Marseille,[38] Milan–Malpensa,[34] Palermo,[34] Paris-Beauvais,[34] Pisa,[34] Prague,[34] Rome–Fiumicino,[34] Sofia,[34] Tirana,[39] Toulouse,[34] Trieste,[34] Turin,[34] Valencia,[34] Venice,[34] Verona,[34] Vienna,[34] Warsaw–Modlin,[34] Weeze[34]
Seasonal: Alghero,[34] Alicante,[34] Bristol,[40], Dublin,[34] Dubrovnik,[34] Edinburgh,[41] Girona,[34] Ibiza,[34] Kaunas,[34] Nuremberg,[34] Porto,[41] Poznań,[42] Rhodes,[34] Seville,[34] Skiathos,[34] Trapani,[43] Zadar[44]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen[45]
Sky Alps Seasonal: Mostar[46]
Transavia Amsterdam[47]
Seasonal: Brussels,[48] Nantes,[49] Paris–Orly[50]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[51]
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark (begins 1 May 2026)[52]
Volotea Seasonal: Athens,[53] Bilbao,[54] Bordeaux,[55] Corfu,[53] Heraklion,[53] Kefalonia,[56] Lille (begins 23 May 2026), Lyon,[53] Málaga,[54] Mykonos,[53] Olbia,[53] Preveza,[54] Santorini,[53] Split,[54] Zakynthos[55]
Vueling Barcelona[57]
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni,[58] Budapest,[58] Chișinău,[58] Skopje,[58] Sofia,[58] Timișoara,[58] Tirana,[58] Warsaw–Chopin,[58] Yerevan[59]
Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca,[58] Craiova,[60] Wrocław[58]

Statistics

Departure area
Control tower
PassengersYear01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0001995200020052010201520202025PassengersAnnual passenger traffic

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[61] also offers a shuttle between the airport and city centre.

See also

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