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Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

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 town centre. Named after Pope John Paul II, who was born Karol Wojtyła, the airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 6,461,179 passengers in 2023.[2]

Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport

Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła
Summary
Airport typePublic/civil/military
OperatorAeroporti di Puglia
ServesBari, Italy
Focus city forRyanair
Volotea
Elevation AMSL187 ft / 57 m
Coordinates41°08′19.88″N 16°45′38.14″E / 41.1388556°N 16.7608634°E / 41.1388556; 16.7608634
Websiteaeroportidipuglia.it
Map
BRI is located in Apulia
BRI
BRI
Location of the airport in Italy
BRI is located in Italy
BRI
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BRI (Italy)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,842 3,000 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers6,474,463
Passenger change 22-23Increase 4.3%
Movements50,116
Movements change 22-23Decrease -3.3%
Cargo (tons)2,469
Cargo change 22-23Increase 1.6%
Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

History

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Early years

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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

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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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Airlines and destinations

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

AirlinesDestinations
Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[4]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade[5]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna[6]
BH Air Seasonal: Sofia
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[7]
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt
easyJet Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva,[8] London–Gatwick, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich[9]
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
ITA Airways Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Luxair Luxembourg[10]
Neos Seasonal: New York–JFK (begins 3 June 2025)[11]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen,[12] Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda[12]
Ryanair[13][14] Athens,[15][16] Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Genoa, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Katowice,[17] Kraków, Linz (begins 31 March 2025),[18] London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga,[16] Malta, Milan–Malpensa, Palermo, Pisa, Prague, Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Tel Aviv,[19] Tirana,[20] Toulouse,[16] Trieste, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona, Vienna,[21] Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Seasonal: Alghero, Alicante, Billund, Bordeaux, Dublin, Dubrovnik,[16] Edinburgh, Girona,[22][15] Ibiza, Kaunas, Maastricht,[23] Marseille, Nuremberg, Patras (begins 3 May 2025),[24] Porto,[23] Poznań, Rhodes,[25] Seville,[23] Skiathos
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen[26]
Sky Alps Seasonal: Mostar[27]
Transavia Amsterdam, Brussels[28]
Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Volotea Florence
Seasonal: Athens, Bilbao,[29] Bordeaux (begins 31 May 2025),[30] Comiso,[29] Corfu, Dubrovnik,[29] Heraklion, Lyon, Málaga,[29] Mykonos, Olbia, Preveza,[29] Rhodes,[29] Santorini, Skiathos, Split,[29] Toulouse,[31] Zakynthos
Vueling Barcelona, Paris–Orly
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Sofia, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca,[32] Wrocław

Statistics

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Departure area
 
Control tower
Annual passenger traffic at BRI airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transportation

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Road

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The airport can be reached by the ring road of Bari and from the A14 motorway.

Rail

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The Bari metropolitan railway service connects the airport with the Bari Centrale railway station in the city centre.

Bus

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

Accidents and incidents

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See also

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References

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  17. ^ "Nowe trasy z Katowic! Włochy, Malta, Chorwacja i Hiszpania od 258 PLN".
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  22. ^ "Ryanair NS24 Network Expansion Summary – 04FEB24". Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  23. ^ a b c "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23". Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  24. ^ "Πτήσεις της Ryanair από Άραξο για Μπάρι από τον Μάιο- Σε προ πανδημίας επίπεδα η κίνηση στο αεροδρόμιο". 14 November 2024.
  25. ^ "Ryanair NS24 Network Additions – 10DEC23". Archived from the original on 12 December 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  26. ^ Orban, Andre (17 February 2022). "SAS presents traffic programme for the summer with 120 destinations". Aviation24.be. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
  27. ^ "Skyalps schedules Mostar flights launch". Bosnia and Herzegovina Aviation News. 3 February 2024. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.
  28. ^ "Transavia apre Bari-Bruxelles nel 2024". 20 September 2023. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  29. ^ a b c d e f g "Volotea Announces New Base in Bari, Italy". 14 December 2023. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  30. ^ "Volotea NS25 Bordeaux Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  31. ^ "Volotea apre una nuov base a Bari [...]" [Volotea gto open a new base in Bari [...]]. bari.corriere.it (in Italian). 28 November 2023.
  32. ^ "Wizz Air suspendă rute din București și Cluj Napoca în octombrie 2023". 28 September 2023. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  33. ^ Tempesta auto servizi
  34. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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