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Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła
IATA: BRI ICAO: LIBD
Summary
Airport type	Public/civil/military
Operator	Aeroporti di Puglia
Serves	Bari, Italy
Focus city for	Ryanair Volotea
Elevation AMSL	187 ft / 57 m
Coordinates	41°08′19.88″N 16°45′38.14″E / 41.1388556°N 16.7605944°E / 41.1388556; 16.7605944
Website	aeroportidipuglia.it
Map
BRILocation of the airport in ItalyShow map of ApuliaBRIBRI (Italy)Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 9,842 3,000 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 6,474,463 Passenger change 22-23 4.3% Movements 50,116 Movements change 22-23 -3.3% Cargo (tons) 2,469 Cargo change 22-23 1.6%
Statistics from Assaeroporti

Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bari-Karol Wojtyła) (IATA: BRI, ICAO: LIBD) is an airport serving the city of Bari in Italy. It is approximately 8 km (5 mi) northwest from the town centre. Named after Pope John Paul II, who was born Karol Wojtyła, the airport is also known as Palese Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese) after a nearby neighbourhood. The airport handled 6,461,179 passengers in 2023.

History

Early years

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The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s, by the Regia Aeronautica. During World War II Italian Campaign, it was seized by the British 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 the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces both as an operational airfield as well as a command and control base. In addition, the airfield was used by the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), and the Balkan Air Force. After the war, it was turned over to the postwar Air Force of the Italian Republic (Aeronautica Militare Italiana).

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 a cargo terminal, but it became in fact the airport's new passenger terminal.

Development since the 1990s

In 1990, with the 1990 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.

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.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled, seasonal, and charter flights to and from Bari:

Statistics

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Ground transportation

Road

The airport can be reached by the ring road of Bari and from the A14 motorway.

Rail

The Bari metropolitan railway service connects the airport with the Bari Centrale railway station in the city centre.

Bus

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.

Tempesta auto servizi also offers a shuttle between the airport and city centre.

Accidents and incidents

• On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153, a Tuninter ATR 72, en route from Bari to Djerba, Tunisia, ditched into the Mediterranean Sea about 18 miles (29 km) from the city of Palermo. 16 of the 39 people on board died. The accident resulted from engine fuel starvation. During maintenance the fuel quantity indicator (FQI) was changed using an FQI for an ATR 42 instead of an ATR 72.

See also

• Kraków John Paul II International Airport
• João Paulo II Airport Ponta Delgada (Azores)
• List of airports in Italy
• Brindisi Airport
• Port of Brindisi

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External links

Media related to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BRI at Aviation Safety Network

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