Bolzano Airport

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.

Bolzano Airport Aeroporto di Bolzano Flughafen Bozen
IATA: BZO ICAO: LIPB
Summary
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
Website	bolzanoairport.it
Map
BZO Show map of South Tyrol BZO Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 1,462 4,797 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 66,179 Passenger change 21-22 236.5% Aircraft movements 15,930 Movements change 21-22 15.2%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [1]

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.^{[citation needed]} 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
Sky Alps	Berlin,[7] Düsseldorf,[7] Hamburg[7] Seasonal: Antwerp,[8] Billund,[8] Brač,[7] Brindisi,[7] Cagliari,[7] Catania,[7] Copenhagen,[8] Corfu,[9] Dubrovnik,[10] Gothenburg,[11] Hannover,[12] Ibiza,[7] Kassel,[13] Kefalonia,[12] Lamezia Terme,[7] London–Gatwick,[14] Menorca,[12] Olbia,[7] Stuttgart,[15] Warsaw–Chopin (begins 19 December 2025)[16]

Accidents and incidents

• In March 2021, a helicopter owned by the Guardia di Finanza, crash landed at the airport. The helicopter was quite new.^[17]

See also

• List of airports in Italy