Brindisi Airport

Brindisi Airport (IATA: BDS, ICAO: LIBR) (Italian: Aeroporto di Brindisi), also known as Brindisi Papola Casale Airport and Salento Airport, is an airport in Brindisi, in southern Italy, located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the city center.

Brindisi Airport

Aeroporto di Brindisi
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesBrindisi, Italy
Focus city forRyanair
Elevation AMSL47 ft / 14 m
Coordinates40°39′27″N 17°56′49″E
Websiteaeroportidipuglia.it
Map
BDS
Location of the airport in Italy
BDS
BDS (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 5,892 1,796 Asphalt
13/31 10,000 3,048 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers2697749
Passenger change 18-19 +8.8%
Aircraft movements21913
Movements change 18-19 +4.1%
Statistics from Assaeroporti [1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
AlbaStar Naples, Trapani
Alitalia Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Heathrow
DAT Seasonal: Catania
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Geneva, Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: London–Gatwick, Paris–Orly
Eurowings Stuttgart
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Munich, Vienna
Heli Air Services Tirana (begins 29 March 2021)[2]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Bern, Zürich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Ryanair Beauvais, Bergamo, Bologna, Cagliari, Charleroi, Katowice, London–Stansted, Malta (begins 29 March 2021), Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Palermo, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna
Seasonal: Memmingen, Turin
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Stuttgart
Ural Airlines Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo[3]
Volotea Verona
Seasonal: Genoa, Venice
Wizz Air Milan–Malpensa[4]

History

This airport was originally established as a military airbase in the 1920s. The first commercial flights serving Rome began in the 1930s with the establishment of the Ala Littoria in 1934. After World War II, Alitalia took over the route and added a flight to Catania. As of 2008, it has officially changed its legal status into civilian airport, still maintaining operational the military facilities attached to it. These are identified with its original name "Military Airport Orazio Pierozzi", named in memory of an Italian airman of the First World War.

The airport is officially named after Antonio Papola, in memory of the Italian aviator died on 13 February 1948 in an air accident who had a special bond with the city. It is also officially known as "Casale" with reference to the contiguous neighborhood in Brindisi with the same name and also as "Salento Airport" with reference to the geographic region where it is located.

The strategic position of the airport in the Mediterranean region, along with its multi-modal connections with the highway and the port a few kilometers away, have made it a base of crucial importance for both national defense and NATO.

UN presence

For the same strategic reasons, in 1994 the airport was chosen as the main global logistics base by the United Nations to support its peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations around the world, which was since then hosted in Pisa Military Airport "San Giusto". In 2000, also the United Nations humanitarian supply depot moved from Pisa to Brindisi. It has since then been managed by the World Food Programme and officially known as the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD). On behalf of governments, other UN agencies and NGOs, from UNHRD Brindisi humanitarian aid is directed to the most remote and devastated regions around the world.

See also

References

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