Brescia "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Brescia, ), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in
Montichiari, southeast of City of
Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are
Milan-Malpensa,
Milan-Linate
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,
Bergamo Orio al Serio and
Verona-Villafranca
Verona Villafranca Airport , also known as Valerio Catullo Airport or ''Villafranca Airport'', is located southwest of Verona, Italy. The airport is situated next to the junction of A4 Milan-Venice and A22 Modena-Brenner motorways. It serves ...
.
History
The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France. The meeting was attended by the
aviator
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s
Louis Blériot
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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
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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
Verona Villafranca Airport , also known as Valerio Catullo Airport or ''Villafranca Airport'', is located southwest of Verona, Italy. The airport is situated next to the junction of Autostrada A4 (Italy), A4 Milan-Venice and Autostrada A22 (It ...
.
Passenger traffic has collapsed from strong year on year growth in 2007–2008, from almost 35,000 passengers a month in June 2008
to only 311 passengers in June 2013, a drop of 99% over 5 years.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
As of December 2022 there haven't been scheduled passenger services at the airport since July 2018.
Cargo
Statistics
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.
The bus journey takes 20 minutes and operates only on Mondays and Fridays.
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Airports in Lombardy
Buildings and structures in Brescia
Transport in Lombardy
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