Milan Bergamo Airport

Il Caravaggio International Airport Aeroporto Internazionale Il Caravaggio
IATA: BGY ICAO: LIME
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SACBO
Serves	Milan metropolitan area
Location	Orio al Serio, Lombardy, Italy
Operating base for	AeroItalia AlbaStar Ryanair
Elevation  AMSL	782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates	45°40′08″N009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028
Website	www.milanbergamoairport.it
Map
BGY Location of airport on map of Bergamo Show map of Bergamo BGY BGY (Lombardy) Show map of Lombardy BGY BGY (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,937 9,630 Asphalt 12/30 778 2,552 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers 17 353 573 Passenger change 23-24 8.6% Movements 109 971 Movements change 23-24 8.1% Cargo (tons) 22 964,4 Cargo change 23-24 8.8%
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe, Italian AIP, Assaeroporti [1]

Orio al Serio International Airport, ^[2] also styled as Milan Bergamo Airport for commercial purposes, ^{[3] [4]} (IATA : BGY, ICAO : LIME) is the third-busiest international airport in Italy. ^[1] The airport is also officially called Il Caravaggio International Airport after the Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who originally hailed from the nearby town of Caravaggio. ^[5]

The airport served almost 17,4 million passengers in 2024 and is one of Ryanair's three largest operating bases, along with Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport. ^{[6] [7]}

The airport is located in Orio al Serio, 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southeast of Bergamo and 45 km (28 mi) northeast of Milan. Together with Milan Malpensa Airport and Milan Linate Airport, it forms the Milan airport system serving the Milan metropolitan area, that with 56.9 million passengers in 2024 constitutes the largest airport system in Italy by number of passengers. ^[8]

Overview

The airport is managed by SACBO, a company partially owned by SEA – Aeroporti di Milano, the operator of Linate and Malpensa airports. SEA, the company that runs the latter two airports, also holds a 31% stake in SACBO. ^[9] The airport has one passenger terminal and two jet-bridge gates.^{[ citation needed ]}

The terminal is split into two zones, A (Gates A1-A15) and B (Gates B1-B5). Gates A13 and B5 are equipped with boarding bridges; the remaining gates are remote gates.

In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced plans to relocate their hub from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport where DHL opened new logistics facilities. ^[10] In early 2022, DHL confirmed the end of all operations at Bergamo. ^[11]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate scheduled and charter services in Bergamo: ^[12]

Airlines	Destinations
AeroItalia	Comiso [13] Seasonal: Bacău [14]
Air Albania	Tirana [15]
Air Arabia	Cairo, Casablanca, [16] Fès, [17] Sharjah Seasonal: Alexandria
Air Cairo	Sharm El Sheikh (begins 3 April 2025) [18]
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charter: Palma de Mallorca [19]
AJet	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen [20]
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Lourdes, Sal Seasonal charter: Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh
AlMasria Universal Airlines	Seasonal: Cairo
Bluebird Airways	Seasonal: Tel Aviv (begins 8 April 2025) [21]
Cabo Verde Airlines	Sal [22]
Dan Air	Seasonal: Bacău [23] [24]
Eurowings	Düsseldorf, [25] Hamburg [ citation needed ] Seasonal: Hannover [26]
flydubai	Dubai–International
Georgian Airways	Tbilisi [27]
HiSky	Chișinău, Oradea [28]
Israir	Tel Aviv [29]
Lumiwings	Foggia [30]
Neos	Dakar–Diass [31] Seasonal: Amritsar, [32] Boa Vista, [33] Catania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Sal, [33] Sharm El Sheikh
Nile Air	Cairo [34]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, [35] Helsinki, [35] Oslo Seasonal: Bergen, Harstad/Narvik, [36] Stavanger, [35] Tromsø
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Ryanair [37]	Agadir, Alghero, Alicante, Amman, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Belfast–International, [38] Beni Mellal, [39] Berlin, Billund (ends 29 March 2025), [40] Birmingham, Bratislava (ends 28 March 2025), [41] Brindisi, Bristol, Brno, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Crotone, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Fès, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Hamburg (ends 28 March 2025), [41] Helsinki, Iași, Katowice, Kaunas, [42] [43] Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Stansted, [44] Lourdes, Lublin, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Olbia, [45] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pescara (ends 29 March 2025), [46] Porto, [47] Poznan, Prague, Riga, Rovaniemi, [43] Salerno, [48] Sandefjord, Santander, Sarajevo, [49] Seville, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tallinn (ends 28 March 2025), [50] Tangier, [51] Tel Aviv (resumes 1 April 2025), [52] Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Tirana, [53] Toulouse, Trapani, Valencia, Vienna, Vilnius, Vitoria, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb, [54] Zaragoza Seasonal: Biarritz, [55] Castellón, [55] Chania, Corfu, Cork, Dubrovnik, [56] Heraklion, Ibiza, Kalamata, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, [57] Kefalonia, Knock, Kos, Lappeenranta, [58] Łódź, [59] Menorca, [60] Preveza, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, [42] [55] Weeze, Zadar, [61] Zakynthos
Sky Alps	Mostar (begins 15 May 2025) [62]
SpiceJet	Seasonal: Amritsar
Transavia	Rotterdam/The Hague [63]
Volotea	Asturias, Nantes Seasonal: Lampedusa, Olbia, Pantelleria
Wizz Air	Belgrade, Bucharest–Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines [64]	Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

Apron view

Aerial view

Departures area

Ryanair Boeing 737s at the airport

Traffic

Annual passenger traffic at BGY airport. See Wikidata query.

Orio al Serio Airport – traffic information ^[65]

Year	Passengers	Movements	Cargo tons
2005	4,356,143	51,635	136,339
2006	5,244,794 (+20.4%)	56,358 (+9.1%)	140,630 (+3.1%)
2007	5,741,734 (+9.5%)	61,364 (+8.9%)	134,449 (−4.4%)
2008	6,482,590 (+12.9%)	64,390 (+4.9%)	122,398 (−9.0%)
2009	7,160,008 (+10.4%)	65,314 (+1.4%)	100,354 (−18.0%)
2010	7,661,061 (+7.2%)	67,167 (+6.3%)	106,050 (+6.5%)
2011	8,419,948 (+9.7%)	71,514 (+5.7%)	112,556 (+5.3%)
2012	8,801,392 (+5.5%)	72,420 (+4.3%)	116,730 (+4.0%)
2013	8,882,611 (+0.9%)	69,974 (−3.4%)	115,950 (−0.7%)
2014	8,696,085 (−2.1%)	66,390 (−5.1%)	122,488 (+5.6%)
2015	10,404,625 (+18.6%)	76,078 (+12.4%)	121,045 (−1.8%)
2016	11,159,631 (+7.3%)	79,953 (+5.1%)	117,765 (−2.7%)
2017	12,336,137 (+10.5%)	86,113 (+7.7%)	125,948 (+6.9%)
2018	12,938,572 (+4.9%)	89,533 (+4.0%)	123,032 (−2.3%)
2019	13,857,257 (+7.1%)	95,377 (+6.5%)	118,964 (−3.3%)
2020	3,833,063 (−72.3%)	38,668 (−59.5%)	51,543 (−56.7%)
2021	6,467,296 (+68.7%)	51,879 (+34.2%)	26,044 (−49.5%)
2022	13,155 806 (+130,4%)	88,846 (+71,3%)	20,827 (-20%)
2023	15,974,386 (+21.4%)	101,696 (+14.5%)	21,101

Busiest domestic routes

Busiest domestic routes from/to Bergamo (2023) ^[66]

Rank	Rank (v. 2022)	Airport	Passengers	Airline(s)
1		Naples, Campania	445,368	Ryanair
2	2	Brindisi, Apulia	417,513	Ryanair
3	2	Palermo, Sicily	415,216	Ryanair
4	2	Bari, Apulia	409,862	Ryanair
5	2	Catania, Sicily	388,104	AeroItalia, Neos, Ryanair
6		Cagliari, Sardinia	386,340	Ryanair
7		Lamezia Terme, Calabria	340,902	Ryanair

Busiest European routes

Busiest European Routes from/to Bergamo (2023) ^[66]

Rank	Rank (v. 2022)	Airport	Passengers	Airline(s)
1		Bucharest, Romania	444,959	Ryanair, Wizz Air
2		Barcelona, Spain	388,883	Ryanair
3		Lisbon, Portugal	311,802	Ryanair
4		Brussels, Belgium	285,364	Ryanair
5	2	Sofia, Bulgaria	272,448	Ryanair, Wizz Air
6	1	Dublin, Ireland	265,699	Ryanair
7	1	Madrid, Spain	256,715	Ryanair
8		Budapest, Hungary	235,209	Ryanair, Wizz Air
9	3	Valencia, Spain	231,708	Ryanair
10	18	Cluj Napoca, Romania	230,690	Ryanair, Wizz Air
11	13	Vienna, Austria	228,500	Ryanair
12	3	Copenhagen, Denmark	219,029	Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair
13	2	Prague, Czech Republic	216,251	Ryanair
14		Paris–Beauvais, France	200,586	Ryanair
15	16	Iasi, Romania	197,391	Ryanair, Wizz Air
16	3	Cologne, Germany	196,990	Ryanair
17	2	Krakow, Poland	193,142	Ryanair

Busiest non-EU routes

Busiest non-EU routes from/to Bergamo (2023) ^[66]

Rank	Rank (v. 2022)	Airport	Passengers	Airline(s)
1		London-Stansted, United Kingdom	514,951	Ryanair
2		Tirana, Albania	363,105	Ryanair, Wizz Air
3		Istanbul, Turkey	344,066	AJet, Pegasus Airlines
4		Manchester, United Kingdom	165,621	Ryanair

Accidents and incidents

• On 30 October 2005, Trade Air Flight 729 crashed near Bergamo, Italy, shortly after taking off in poor weather. The flight was a night-time cargo flight from Bergamo to Zagreb operated by a Let L-410 Turbolet with the registration 9A-BTA. All three people on board, two pilots and a passenger, were killed. ^[67]
• On 5 August 2016, during the night, Boeing 737-476 (SF) registered HA-FAX, operated by ASL Airlines Hungary, overshot while landing on runway 28 in Bergamo and came to a stop on a parking lot and on a secondary highway lane that is around the airport, 300 m (980 ft) from the runway end. No one was injured, but some cars were destroyed and the plane sustained substantial damages. The plane was removed from the street the same day. The air traffic remained unvaried without delays. ^[68]
• On 1 October 2024, four tires of a Ryanair-operated Boeing 737 MAX 8 burst on the runway after landing, forcing the plane to a stop and damaging 450 meters of the runway. ^[69] Flights were temporarily suspended. ^[70]

Ground transportation

Car

The A4 is one of the main road networks that links the airport.

Bus

There are several public transportation links to and from downtown Milan, including express coaches. ^[71] There are further connections to/from Bergamo city center, Arezzo, Bologna, Brescia, Monza, Turin, Malpensa Airport, and Milan Trade Exhibition Center, Parma, Torino, and Verona.

Railway

While a railway station is currently being built at Bergamo airport, scheduled to open in 2026, ^[72] the current nearest railway station is Bergamo railway station, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away. There is no official shuttle between the airport and the railway station. A bus service operated by ATB connects to the airport, about 10 minutes from the train station. ^[73]

See also

• Transport in Milan
• List of airports in Italy

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External links

Media related to Orio al Serio International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BGY at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for LIME at NOAA / NWS