Brindisi Airport

Brindisi Airport (IATA: BDS, ICAO: LIBR) (Italian: Aeroporto di Brindisi), also known as Brindisi Papola Casale Airport and Salento Airport, is an airport in Brindisi, in southern Italy, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the city center.

Brindisi Airport

Aeroporto di Brindisi
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesBrindisi, Italy
Focus city forRyanair
Elevation AMSL47 ft / 14 m
Coordinates40°39′27″N 17°56′49″E
Websiteaeroportidipuglia.it
Map
BDS is located in Apulia
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Location of the airport in Italy
BDS is located in Italy
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BDS (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 5,892 1,796 Asphalt
13/31 10,000 3,048 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers3,065,962
Passenger change 21-22Increase +65.4%
Aircraft movements25,563
Movements change 21-22Increase +52.3%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [1]

History

This airport was originally established as a military airbase in the 1920s. The first commercial flights serving Rome began in the 1930s with the establishment of the Ala Littoria in 1934. After World War II, Alitalia took over the route and added a flight to Catania. As of 2008, it has officially changed its legal status into civilian airport, still maintaining operational the military facilities attached to it. These are identified with its original name "Military Airport Orazio Pierozzi", named in memory of an Italian airman of the First World War.

The airport is officially named after Antonio Papola, in memory of the Italian aviator died on 13 February 1948 in an air accident who had a special bond with the city. It is also officially known as "Casale" with reference to the contiguous neighborhood in Brindisi with the same name and also as "Salento Airport" with reference to the geographic region where it is located.

The strategic position of the airport in the Mediterranean region, along with its multi-modal connections with the highway and the port a few kilometers away, have made it a base of crucial importance for both national defense and NATO.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Brindisi Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Air Dolomiti Seasonal: Munich
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
DAT Seasonal: Catania
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: London–Gatwick, Paris–Orly, Zurich
Eurowings Stuttgart
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Charleroi, Eindhoven, London–Stansted, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Perugia, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Turin, Verona
Seasonal: Dublin, Genoa,[2] Madrid, Memmingen, Palermo, Stockholm–Arlanda, Venice, Wrocław, Zagreb
SkyAlps Seasonal: Bolzano
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
Transavia Seasonal: Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Ural Airlines Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo (Suspended)[3]
Volotea Seasonal: Cagliari, Nantes
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona
Wizz Air Tirana[4]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BDS airport. See Wikidata query.

UN presence

For the same strategic reasons, in 1994 the airport was chosen as the main global logistics base by the United Nations to support its peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations around the world, which was previously hosted in Pisa Military Airport "San Giusto". In 2000, the United Nations humanitarian supply depot was also moved from Pisa to Brindisi. It has since then been managed by the World Food Programme and officially known as the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD). On behalf of governments, other UN agencies and NGOs, from UNHRD Brindisi humanitarian aid is directed to the most remote and devastated regions around the world.

See also

References

Media related to Brindisi Airport at Wikimedia Commons



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