Bolzano Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Bolzano — Dolomiti, german: Flughafen Bozen — Dolomiten) is a small regional
airport
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near
Bolzano
Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third ...
in the province of
South Tyrol
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in northern
Italy
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.
History
The airport was created in October 1926 with a 1300-meter landing runway.
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.
South Tyrol spent over €120 million in recent years for the airport without attracting any lasting scheduled traffic.
Darwin Airline
Darwin Airline SA was a Swiss regional airline with its head office in Bioggio, Lugano flying under the brand name Adria Airways Switzerland. It operated scheduled domestic and international services in some western European countries. It used ...
ceased their
''PSO''-flights to
Rome
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on behalf of
Alitalia
Alitalia - Società Aerea Italiana S.p.A., operating as Alitalia (), was an Italian airline which was once the flag carrier and largest airline of Italy. The company had its head office in Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The ai ...
on 18 June 2015 leaving Bolzano Airport again without any scheduled commercial traffic.
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. The airport extended its runway to 1,462 m in late 2021.
In March 2021, a helicopter owned by the Gardia di Finanza, crash landed at the airport. The helicopter was quite new.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Bolzano Airport:
Statistics
See also
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List of airports in Italy
This is a list of airports in Italy, grouped by region and sorted by location.
Airports
Airport names shown in bold have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
See also
* Transport in Italy
* List of airports by ICAO code: L#LI ...
References
External links
Official website*
Airports in Italy
Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...
Transport in South Tyrol
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