Orio al Serio Airport

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Orio al Serio Airport Aeroporto di Milano-Orio al Serio

IATA: BGY ICAO: LIME
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		SACBO (Società Aeroporto Civile Bergamo Orio al Serio)
Serves		Milan
Location		Bergamo, Italy
Elevation AMSL		782 ft / 238 m
Coordinates		45°4008N 009°4201E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028 (Orio al Serio Airport)Coordinates: 45°4008N 009°4201E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E / 45.66889; 9.70028 (Orio al Serio Airport)
Website		www.sacbo.it
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
10/28	2,934	9,630	Asphalt
12/30	778	2,552	Asphalt
Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL^[1]

Orio al Serio Airport (IATA: BGY, ICAO: LIME) is an airport located in Orio al Serio, 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast^[1] of Bergamo, Italy. It is popular with low-cost airlines offering flights to Milan, although the city is 45 km away from the airport. Orio al Serio is operated by SACBO (Società Aeroporto Civile Bergamo Orio al Serio). The airport served 7.160.008 passengers in 2009 and is now the fourth busiest in Italy. The airport, with Linate Airport and Malpensa Airport, forms Milan's airport system.

1 Airlines and destinations
- 1.1 Cargo airlines
2 Traffic
3 Ground handling
4 Security services
5 Transport
6 References
7 External links

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Italy	Olbia
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Belle Air	Pristina, Tirana
Blue Air	Bacu, Bucharest-Bneasa, Naples [ends 27 March], Larnaca [begins 28 March]
Carpatair	Craiova [begins 24 May], Timioara
Danube Wings	Kosice
Iceland Express	Reykjavík-Keflavík [begins June]
Jet2.com	Leeds/Bradford
Livingston Energy Flight	Ibiza
Meridiana operated by Eurofly	Sharm el-Sheikh
Nouvelair	Djerba, Monastir
Ryanair	Alghero, Alicante, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund, Bratislava, Bremen, Brindisi, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Faro [begins 26 March], Fez, Fuerteventura [begins 30 March], Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Granada, Hahn, Ibiza, Kaunas [begins 7 May], Kos [brgins 25 May], Krakow, Lamezia Terme, Liverpool, Lleida [begins 2 April], London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech [begins 1 May], Nantes, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Palermo, Paris-Beauvais, Pescara, Porto, Pozna [begins 1 May], Reus [begins 3 May], Rhodes [begins 27 May], Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Santander, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tangier, Tampere, Tenerife-South [begins 3 May], Trapani, Valencia, Valladolid, Volos [begins 27 May], Weeze, Wrocaw [begins 3 May], Zaragoza^[2]
Trawel Fly	Catania, Naples, Olbia [seasonal], Reggio Calabria, Tenerife-South [ends 22 March]
Wind Jet	Catania
Wizz Air	Bucharest-Bneasa, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdask, Katowice, Prague, Sofia, Timioara, Warsaw, Wroclaw

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
DHL Aviation	Belgrade, Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Geneva, Ljubljana, Sofia
DHL Aviation operated by European Air Transport	Athens, Brussels, Budapest, East Midlands, Leipzig/Halle, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Tel Aviv, Treviso, Vatry
DHL Aviation operated by Swiftair	Ancona, Vitoria
MiniLiner	Belgrade, Zagreb
United Parcel Service operated by Star Air (Maersk Air)	Bologna, Cologne/Bonn, Pescara

Traffic

Orio al Serio Airport Traffic Information
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%)

Ground handling

Ground handling services are provided by the SACBO and Airport Global Services. However, the first private handler to enter the Orio Al Serio market was ASA Handling which started handling TUIfly but went bankrupt shortly afterwards.

Security services

Security services were formerly provided by SACBO with the supervision of the Polizia di Frontiera (Border Police), Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Police) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (Italy's Civil Aviation Authority). Due to labour disputes and costs the security services have been outsourced to a private security firm (Veritas).

Transport

Reaching the airport by bus: Terravision and Autostradale run a service between the airport and the Central station in Milan city center. ATM does runs a bus service between the airport and the Railway Station.^[3]

Reaching the airport by train: There is a direct bus service called "Airport Bus"^[4] from Bergamo railway station to the airport provided by the local transport company of Bergamo, the trip costs 1,70 and lasts 15 minutes.^[3]. From the Bergamo railway station, there are trains to Milan, Brescia and Lecco.