International airport serving Bari, Italy
Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (Italian :Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła ) (IATA :BRI ,ICAO :LIBD Bari inItaly . It is approximately 8 km (5 mi) northwest from the city centre. Named afterPope John Paul II (1920–2005), who was born Karol Wojtyła. The airport is also known asPalese Airport (Italian :Aeroporto di Bari-Palese ) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 6,461,179 passengers in 2023.[ 2]
The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s, by theRegia Aeronautica . DuringWorld War II Italian Campaign , it was seized by theBritish Eighth Army in late September 1943, and turned into an Allied military airfield. Until the end of the war in May 1945, it was used by theRoyal Air Force and theUnited States Army Air Forces Twelfth andFifteenth Air Forces both as an operational airfield as well as a command and control base. In addition, the airfield was used by theItalian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), and theBalkan Air Force . After the war, it was turned over to the postwar Air Force of theItalian Republic (Aeronautica Militare Italiana ).
In the 1960s, it was opened to civil flights andAlitalia schedules regular flights to Rome,Catania ,Palermo ,Ancona , Venice. The routes were later taken over by ATI, using aFokker F27 airplane. When ATI put into operation the newDC-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 a cargo terminal, but it became in fact the airport's new passenger terminal.
Development since the 1990s [ edit ] In 1990, with the1990 FIFA 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.[citation needed
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. They were upgraded in 2005–2006 with the opening of a new passenger terminal equipped with four jet bridges and a multistorey car park.[citation needed
Airlines and destinations [ edit ] The following airlines operate regular scheduled, seasonal, and charter flights to and from Bari:[ 3]
Airlines Destinations Air Cairo Sharm El Sheikh [ 4] Air Dolomiti Munich [ 5] Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle [ 6] Air Serbia Belgrade [ 7] Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna [ 8] BH Air Seasonal: Sofia British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick [ 9] Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt [ 10] easyJet Milan–Malpensa [ 11] Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse ,[ 12] Bristol (begins 18 April 2026),[ 13] Geneva ,[ 14] London–Gatwick ,[ 15] Lyon ,[ 16] Nice ,[ 17] Paris–Charles de Gaulle [ 15] Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich [ 18] Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn ,[ 19] Düsseldorf ,Hamburg ,[ 20] Stuttgart [ 21] Iberia Seasonal: Madrid ITA Airways Milan–Linate ,[ 22] Rome–Fiumicino [ 22] Lufthansa Frankfurt ,Munich Luxair Luxembourg [ 23] Neos Seasonal: New York–JFK ,[ 24] Sharm El Sheikh [ 25] Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen ,[ 26] Oslo ,[ 27] Stockholm–Arlanda [ 26] Ryanair Athens ,[ 28] Beauvais ,[ 12] Bergamo ,[ 12] Berlin ,[ 12] Bologna ,[ 12] Bratislava ,[ 29] Bucharest–Băneasa ,[ 30] Budapest ,[ 12] Cagliari ,[ 12] Catania ,[ 12] Charleroi ,[ 12] Genoa ,Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden ,[ 12] Katowice ,[ 31] Kraków ,[ 12] Linz ,[ 32] London–Stansted ,[ 33] Madrid ,[ 12] Málaga ,[ 28] Malta ,[ 12] Milan–Malpensa ,[ 12] Palermo ,[ 12] Pisa ,[ 12] Prague ,[ 12] Rome–Fiumicino ,[ 12] Sofia ,[ 12] Tirana ,[ 34] Toulouse ,[ 28] Trieste ,[ 12] Turin ,[ 12] Valencia ,[ 12] Venice ,[ 12] Verona ,[ 12] Vienna ,[ 35] Warsaw–Modlin ,[ 12] Weeze [ 12] Seasonal: Alghero ,[ 12] Alicante ,[ 12] Dublin ,[ 12] Dubrovnik ,[ 28] Edinburgh ,[ 36] Girona ,[ 37] Ibiza ,[ 12] Kaunas ,[ 38] Nuremberg ,Porto ,[ 39] Poznań ,[ 40] Rhodes ,[ 41] Seville ,[ 39] Skiathos ,[ 42] Trapani (begins 3 April 2026),[ 43] Zadar [ 44] Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen [ 45] Sky Alps Seasonal: Mostar [ 46] Transavia Amsterdam [ 47] Seasonal: Brussels ,[ 48] Nantes (begins 9 April 2026),[ 49] Paris–Orly [ 50] Turkish Airlines Istanbul [ 51] United Airlines Seasonal: Newark (begins 1 May 2026)[ 52] Volotea Seasonal: Bilbao ,[ 53] Bordeaux ,[ 54] Corfu ,Heraklion ,Kefalonia ,[ 55] Lyon ,[ 56] Mykonos ,Olbia ,Preveza ,[ 53] Santorini ,Split ,[ 53] Zakynthos Vueling Barcelona [ 57] Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni ,[ 58] Budapest ,[ 59] Chișinău ,[ 60] Skopje ,[ 61] Sofia ,[ 62] Timișoara ,[ 63] Tirana ,[ 64] Warsaw–Chopin ,[ 65] Yerevan [ 66] Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca ,[ 67] Craiova ,[ 68] Wrocław [ 69]
Departure area Control tower Passengers Year 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022 Passengers Annual passenger traffic Ground transportation [ edit ] The airport can be reached by the ring road of Bari and from the A14 motorway.
TheBari metropolitan railway service connects the airport with theBari Centrale railway station in the city centre.
AMTAB buses provide public transportation to the airport from the city centre (Line 16). Pugliairbus is a seasonal bus transportation service which operates interconnection service with Brindisi and Foggia airports. Pugliairbus also reaches touristic locations.
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