Brescia Airport
Brescia Airport "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Aeroporto di Brescia | |||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||
| Serves | Brescia, Italy | ||||||||||||
| Location | Montichiari, Lombardy | ||||||||||||
| Hub for | Poste Air Cargo | ||||||||||||
| Built | September 1909 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 356 ft / 109 m | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°25′44″N 010°19′50″E / 45.42889°N 10.33056°E | ||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||
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VBS Location of airport on map of Lombardy Location of Lombardy region in Italy | |||||||||||||
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| Sources:DAFIF[1] Statistics from Assaeroporti [2] | |||||||||||||
Brescia "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Airport[a] (IATA: VBS, ICAO: LIPO), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca.
History
The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France.[3] The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel Forse che sì forse che no (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod also attended and separately published accounts.
Ryanair operated scheduled flights to and from London Stansted Airport and Cagliari-Elmas Airport until the end of October 2010, when the airline decided to move these flights to the nearby Verona-Villafranca Airport.
Passenger traffic has collapsed from strong year on year growth in 2007–2008, from almost 35,000 passengers a month in June 2008 [4] to only 311 passengers in June 2013, a drop of 99% over 5 years.[5]
Brescia Airport is the main sorting base for Poste Italiane's air mail: DHL and Poste Air Cargo postal and cargo flights depart and arrive every night.[6][7]
The airport also benefits from an intensification of freight traffic, thanks to a partnership agreement signed between the Poste Italiane and Amazon.[8] The cargo trend has seen a further increase since March 2017 with the start of the activities of SW Italia and Silk Way West Airlines, which operate weekly flights between Brescia, Baku and Hong Kong.[9] Since November 2018, the airport has also become one of the main base for cargo flights of the international courier DHL.[10]
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
There haven't been scheduled passenger services at the airport since July 2018.
Cargo
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Poste Air Cargo | Rome-Fiumicino[11] |
Statistics
| Year | Passenger Count | Percent Change |
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| 2005 | 410,000 | |
| 2006 | 232,000 | 43.41% |
| 2007 | 190,000 | 18.10% |
| 2008 | 260,000 | 36.84% |
| 2009 | 204,000 | 21.54% |
| 2010 | 165,000 | 19.12% |
| 2011 | 34,000 | 79.40% |
| 2012 | 23,000 | 32.35% |
| 2013 | 10,000 | 56.52% |
| 2014 | 13,528 | 35.28% |
| 2015 | 7,744 | 42.75% |
| 2016 | 19,239 | 148.43% |
| 2017 | 13,821 | 28.16% |
| 2018 | 8,589 | 37.85% |
| 2019 | 17,003 | 97.96% |
| 2020 | 3,874 | 77.21% |
| 2021 | 5,454 | 40.78% |
Ground transportation
On 20 May 2016, APAM (Transport for Mantova) began operation of a twice-weekly shuttle bus service between Brescia-Montichiari Airport to Brescia Santa Eufemia metro station, for onward connections to Brescia railway station.[13] The bus journey takes 20 minutes and operates only on Mondays and Fridays.
Notes
References
- ^ Airport information for LIPO from DAFIF
- ^ "Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ^ "The First Air Races: Brescia, September 1909".
- ^ "Passenger Movements 2007–2008". Assaeroport. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ "2013 Passenger Movements 2012–2013". Assaeroport. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ "Compagnia - Attività: Voli postali e cargo" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Aeroporto di Brescia" (in Italian). Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Morabito, Valerio (11 January 2018). "Amazon salva l'aeroporto, boom del traffico merci" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Ganz, Barbara (8 January 2018). "Aeroporti: per Venezia l'Oriente parte da Brescia" (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Airport stalled. Oxygen from the sky thanks to DHL cargoes". 16 November 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
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- ^ "Capital injection – Aeroporto Valerio Catullo di Verona Villafranca S.p.A." (PDF). europa.eu.
- ^ "Dal 20/05/2015: Nuova navetta Stazione Metro Sant'Eufemia - Aeroporto di Montichiari - APAM". www.apam.it. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
External links
Media related to Brescia Montichiari Airport at Wikimedia Commons