Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
| Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła | |||
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IATA: BRI – ICAO: LIBD
  BRI | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aeroporti di Puglia | ||
| Serves | Bari, Italy | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 177 ft / 54 m | ||
| Coordinates | 41°08′19.88″N 16°45′38.14″E / 41.1388556°N 16.7605944°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 07/25 | 9,251 | 2,820 | Paved Asphalt |
| 12/30 (Closed) | 5,512 | 1,680 | Paved Asphalt |
| Statistics (2012) | |||
| Passengers | 3,780,112 | ||
| Passenger change 11-12 |  1.5% | ||
| Aircraft movements | 36,208 | ||
| Movements change 11-12 |  -1.8% | ||
| 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 (5.0 mi) northwest from the town centre. The airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 3,725,629 passengers in 2011.
History
The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s by the Regia Aeronautica. During the 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). After the war it was turned over to the post-war 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 cargo terminal, but it became in fact the airport’s new passengers terminal. In 1990, with the Football 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 4 jet bridges and a multistorey car park.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel |
| Air Dolomiti | Munich |
| Air One | Venice-Marco Polo |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga |
| Alitalia | Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino, Tirana, Turin |
| Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner | Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino, Turin |
| Blu-express operated by Blue Panorama Airlines | Catania, Palermo |
| British Airways | Seasonal: London-Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Seasonal: Brussels (begins 23 June 2014)[2] |
| easyJet | Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: London-Gatwick |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
| Germanwings operated by Eurowings | Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 30 March 2014) |
| Helvetic Airways | Zürich |
| Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg |
| Meridiana | Seasonal: Olbia |
| Ryanair | Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Charleroi, Cagliari, Genoa, Hahn, Kos, London-Stansted, Malta, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Weeze Seasonal: Dublin (begins 4 April 2014),[3] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kos (begins 6 July 2014), Maastricht/Aachen, Valencia |
| Small Planet Airlines | Seasonal: Tirana |
| Transavia.com | Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 17 April 2014) |
| Volotea | Venice-Marco Polo, Verona Seasonal: Heraklion (begins 23 June 2014), Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Mykonos, Santorini |
| Vueling | Rome-Fiumicino (begins 25 June 2014)[4] Seasonal: Barcelona, Florence |
| Wizz Air | Bucharest, Budapest, Prague |
Ground transportation
Road
The airport can be reached by the ring road of Bari and from the A14 motorway.
Rail
Since 20 July 2013 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). Urban buses are operative from 5 a.m.to 11 p.m. Pugliairbus is a seasonal bus transportation service which operates interconnection service with Brindisi and Foggia airports. Pugliairbus also reaches turistic locations.
Accidents and incidents
- On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153, a Tuninter ATR 72 en route from Bari to Djerba, Tunisia, ditched into the Mediterranean Sea about 18 miles from the city of Palermo. 16 of the 39 people on board died. The accident resulted from engine fuel starvation due to the installation of ATR 42 fuel quantity indicators in the ATR 72.[5]
See also
- John Paul II International Airport Kraków–Balice
- João Paulo II Airport Ponta Delgada (Azores)
References
External links
Media related to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport at Wikimedia Commons
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