Bolzano Airport
Bolzano Airport Aeroporto di Bolzano Flughafen Bozen | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | ABD Airport AG/S.p.A. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bolzano, Italy | ||||||||||
| Operating base for | Sky Alps | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 270 m / 787.4 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°27′37″N 011°19′35″E / 46.46028°N 11.32639°E | ||||||||||
| Website | bolzanoairport.it | ||||||||||
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| Statistics from the Italian Civil Aviation Authority [1] | |||||||||||
Bolzano Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bolzano — Dolomiti, German: Flughafen Bozen — Dolomiten) (IATA: BZO, ICAO: LIPB) is a regional airport near Bolzano in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy and serves as the home base for Sky Alps.
History
The airport was established in October 1926 with a 1,300-metre (4,300 ft) landing runway.[2]
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.[3] 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.[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 (4,797 ft) in late 2021.[6]
Airline and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bolzano Airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Sky Alps | Antwerp,[7] Berlin,[7] Düsseldorf,[7] Hamburg[7] Seasonal: Billund,[8] Brindisi,[7] Cagliari,[7] Catania,[7] Copenhagen,[8] Corfu,[7] Dresden,[9] Gothenburg,[10] Hannover,[11] Ibiza,[7] Kassel,[7] Kefalonia,[7] Lamezia Terme,[7] London–Gatwick,[12] Menorca,[7] Olbia,[7] Preveza/Lefkada (begins 30 May 2026),[13] Thessaloniki (begins 29 May 2026),[14] Warsaw–Chopin[15] |
Accidents and incidents
- In March 2021, a helicopter owned by the Guardia di Finanza, crash landed at the airport. The helicopter was quite new.[16]
See also
References
- ^ "AIR TRAFFIC DATA 2025" (PDF). Retrieved 2026-04-20.
- ^ "ITALIAN BOLZANO ( ALTO ADIGE)". 6612springbottomway.blogspot.com.
- ^ "Etihad Regional stellt Bozen-Rom ein - Austrian Aviation Net". Archived from the original on 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ aerotelegraph.com - "South Tyroleans do not want to support Bolzano Airport anymore" 14 June 2016
- ^ "Beim Flughafen haben jetzt die privaten Investoren das Sagen - TGR Tagesschau". TGR. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ "Italy's Sky Alps Resumes Operations With Regional Routes". Routes. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Sky Alps ist jetzt auch per Amadeus buchbar". aeroTELEGRAPH (in Swiss High German). 26 June 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ^ a b "SkyAlps riconferma Anversa, Billund e Copenaghen per i voli per le vacanze bianche". 12 July 2023.
- ^ "SkyAlps ha aperto su Dresda". 11 December 2025.
- ^ "Italian boutique airline SkyAlps to launch a new route from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to Bolzano in January 2025". 8 November 2024. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ^ "Sky Alps fliegt im Winter weiter nach Hannover – neue Route nach Warschau geplant". aeroTELEGRAPH (in Swiss High German). 28 July 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ^ "SkyAlps atterrera' a Londra Gatwick da meta' aprile". 6 February 2024.
- ^ "SkyAlps: Δύο νέοι ελληνικοί προορισμοί στο θερινό πρόγραμμα του 2026".
- ^ "SkyAlps: Δύο νέοι ελληνικοί προορισμοί στο θερινό πρόγραμμα του 2026".
- ^ Bożyk, Piotr (1 March 2026). "SkyAlps zainaugurowały w grudniu 2025 loty do Warszawy" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 April 2026.
- ^ "Elicottero della Finanza si rovescia in fase di decollo - TGR Bolzano". 27 March 2021.
External links
Media related to Bolzano Airport at Wikimedia Commons