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Palese Airport
Airport Directory » Italy » Bari » Palese AirportBari "Karol Wojtyla" International Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bari) (IATA: BRI, ICAO: LIBD) is an airport assisting the town of Bari in Italy. It is about 8km (five land mile) northwest from the city heart. The airport is also known as Palese Macchie Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Palese Macchie) after a nearby vicinity.
The airport's installations have been upgraded in 2005-2006 with the opening of a new rider depot fit out with four burdening spans, a new control tower and a multistorey auto parkland.
The airport dealt 2.486.154 riders in 2008.
History
The airport of Bari was originally a armed forces airport, turn up on the outskirts of Bari. In the 1960s it was opened to polite voyages and Alitalia schedules regular voyages to Rome, Catania, Palermo, Ancona, Venice. The paths were subsequently taken over by ATI, using a Fokker F27 plane. When ATI set into functioning the new DC-9-30 it went necessary to make a new landing track, while the armed forces complex was still used as rider depot.
In 1981 a new construction was finished, originally thought to be used as freight depot, but it went in fact the airport’s new riders depot. In 1990, with the football game World Cup, the landing track was continued and the depot was upgraded, going through a further redevelopment in 2000.
However, the traffic increase presented the infrastructural limitations of the airport and in 2002 the constituting rock of the new rider depot was range. At the same clip, voyage bases (aircraft parking area , landing track etc.) were upgraded. In 2005, the new depot was finished and opened to riders.
In 2005, building works for a new control tower set about and they were finished the coming after yr. In 2006 a further extension of the landing track was set about, and in 2007 the programming of an extension of the rider depots was commissioned.
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