Brescia Airport
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Brescia Airport "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Aeroporto di Brescia |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Brescia, Italy | ||||||||||
| Location | Montichiari, Lombardy | ||||||||||
| Built | 1909 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 356 ft / 109 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°25′44″N 010°19′50″E / 45.42889°N 10.33056°ECoordinates: 45°25′44″N 010°19′50″E / 45.42889°N 10.33056°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www |
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Location of Lombardy region in Italy
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| Passengers | 19,239 |
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| Passenger change 15-16 |
 +148.4% |
| Aircraft movements | 8,506 |
| Movements change 15-16 |
+3.2% |
| Cargo tons | 24,416 |
Brescia "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Brescia, 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.
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 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 from which it has pulled out during 2013 and 2014 pending investigations of subsidies granted there.
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.
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