Bari International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Bari Airport
nativename = Aeroporto di Bari
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IATA = BRI
ICAO = LIBD
type = Public
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operator = Aeroporti di Puglia
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location = Bari
elevation-f = 177
elevation-m = 54
coordinates = Coord|41|08|19.88|N|16|45|38.14|E|type:airport_region:IT|display=inline,title
website = [http://www.seap-puglia.it/index.asp?idlingua=2& Aeroporti di Puglia]
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r1-number = 07/25
r1-length-f = 8,005
r1-length-m = 2,440
r1-surface = Paved Asphalt
r2-number = 12/30 (Closed)
r2-length-f = 5,512
r2-length-m = 1,680
r2-surface = Paved Asphalt
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Bari "Karol Wojtyla" International Airport ( _it. Aeroporto di Bari) airport codes|BRI|LIBD is an airport serving the city of Bari in Italy. It is approximately 8km (5 miles) northwest from the town center. The airport is also known as Palese Macchie Airport ( _it. Aeroporto di Palese Macchie) after a nearby neighborhood.

The airport's facilities have been upgraded in 2005-2006 with the opening of a new passenger terminal equipped with 4 loading bridges, a new control tower and a multistorey car park.

The airport handled 2.368.313 passengers in 2007 - a 20% increase over the previous year.

History

The airport of Bari was originally a military airport, located on the outskirts of Bari. 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.

Airlines and destinations

*Air Italy (Olbia)
*Air One (Bologna, Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino, Trapani, Turin, Venice)
*Alitalia (Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
*Belle Air (Tirana)
*British Airways (London-Gatwick [seasonal] )
*Carpatair (Timişoara)
*easyJet (Milan-Malpensa)
*Eurofly (New York-JFK [seasonal)
*MyAir (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest-Bǎneasa, Genova, Milan-Orio, Paris-CDG)
*Ryanair (Bologna-Forli, Franfurt-Hahn, London-Stansted, Milan-Orio, Pisa, Malta)
*SkyEurope (Prague)
*TUIfly (Basel, Cologne/Bonn, Munich, Stuttgart)

External links

* [http://www.seap-puglia.it/default.asp?idlingua=2&idcontenuto=25 Official website]
*WAD|LIBD