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Orio al Serio International Airport
Orio al Serio International 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°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°ECoordinates: 45°40′08″N 009°42′01″E / 45.66889°N 9.70028°E
Website	www.sacbo.it
Runways
	Source: Italian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Orio al Serio International 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 almost 6.5 million passengers in 2008. The airport, with Linate Airport and Malpensa International Airport, forms Milan's airport system.

[edit] 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%)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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.^[2]

Reaching the airport by Train: There is a direct bus service called "Airport bus"^[3] from Bergamo railway station to the airport provided by the local transport company of Bergamo, the trip costs 1,70€ and lasts 15 minutes.^[2]. From the Bergamo railway station, there are trains to Milan, Brescia and Lecco.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Italy	Olbia
Air Memphis	Sharm el-Sheikh
Air Slovakia	Bratislava
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino
Belle Air	Tirana
Blue Air	Bacău, Bucharest-Băneasa, Sibiu
Carpatair	Timişoara
Danube Wings	Kosice
Iceland Express	Reykjavík-Keflavík [begins June]
Jet2.com	Leeds/Bradford
Livingston Energy Flight	Ibiza
Lotus Air	Cairo, Hurghada
Meridiana operated by Eurofly	Sharm el-Sheikh
Nouvelair	Djerba, Monastir
Onur Air	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk
Ryanair	Alghero, Alicante, Bari, Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund, Bratislava, Bremen, Brindisi, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cagliari, Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Fez, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Granada, Ibiza, Krakow, Lamezia Terme, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Madrid, Nantes, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Palermo, Paris-Beauvais, Pescara, Porto, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Santander, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tangier, Tampere, Trapani, Valencia, Weeze, Zaragoza^[4]
Trawel Fly	Catania, Cagliari, Crotone, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Naples, Olbia, Reggio Calabria, Rhodes, Tenerife-South
Wizz Air	Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdańsk [begins 17 December], Katowice, Prague, Sofia, Timişoara, Warsaw, Wroclaw [begins 20 March]

[edit] Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
DHL Aviation	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

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b EAD Basic
^ ^a ^b http://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=2658&currentMenu=2175
^ http://www.atb.bergamo.it/airportbus/
^ "Aeroporto di Milano - Orio al Serio / VOLI DI LINEA - PARTENZE" (PDF). http://www.sacbo.it/docs/TTLinea_Novembre(1).pdf. Retrieved 2005-10-26.

[edit] External links

Media related to Orio al Serio International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Orio al Serio International Airport (official website)
Current weather for LIME at NOAA/NWS
Accident history for BGY at Aviation Safety Network

[AIP-0] EAD Basic

[sacbo.it-1] ttp://www.sacbo.it/Editorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=2658&currentMenu=2175

[2] ttp://www.atb.bergamo.it/airportbus/

[3] "Aeroporto di Milano - Orio al Serio / VOLI DI LINEA - PARTENZE" (PDF). http://www.sacbo.it/docs/TTLinea_Novembre(1).pdf. Retrieved 2005-10-26.

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