01.07.22

ALBASTAR LAUNCHES DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM MILAN BERGAMO TO CABO VERDE, SAL

At exactly 1 p.m. today, Friday 1 July, the first flight operated by Albastar for Sal, Cabo Verde, took off right on time. This is a new route for the private Spanish airline, which has its number-one base in Italy in terms of destinations and frequency at Milan Bergamo Airport. Flights to Sal are scheduled every Friday and will be operated with a 189-seat Boeing 737-800 from the Albastar fleet. The airline’s partners include the tour operators Caboverdetime and Veratour. Schedule of flights from Bergamo to Sal (UTC time) Fridays from Milan Bergamo at 11.00 a.m., arriving in Sal at 5.05 p.m. Schedule of flights from Sal to Bergamo (UTC time) Fridays from Sal at 5.55 p.m., arriving in Bergamo at 11.40 p.m

20.06.22

ON 21 JUNE, MILAN BERGAMO AIRPORT WILL BE CELEBRATING THE FESTA DELLA MUSICA

21 June sees the return of music to Italian airports. Following the suspension of the traditional event in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority and the Assaeroporti association, in collaboration with the airport management, will once again be offering a series of concerts on the theme of “Recovery Sound & Green Music Economy”. The 2022 edition represents a symbolic moment of recommencement for a sector that has been one of the most heavily hit by the crisis caused by the COVID-19 health emergency. SACBO and Milan Bergamo Airport have accepted the invitation to organise for Tuesday 21 June, from 9.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., a rich programme of musical performances that will take place in various areas within the terminal and that will see the involvement of musicians from the “Paolina Secco Suardo” musical high school playing wind instruments, violins, pianos and classic guitar, a number of young talents from the Gaetano Donizetti Conservatory and four ex-piano students taught by the maestro Marco Giovannetti; Elena Migliorini, who will be playing works by Schumann, Rachmaninov, Satie and Janácek; Roberta Vorzitelli, who will be proposing pieces by Bartok, Bach and Ligeti; Emanuele Vegetti, who is slated to play Chopin, Mompou and Skrjabin; Daniele Guerra, who has chosen Beethoven, Skrjabin and Rachmaninov. 

15.06.22

SACBO AND MILAN BERGAMO AIRPORT AT VELO-CITY 2022

SACBO and Milan Bergamo Airport are playing a lead role at Velo-city 2022, the world cycling summit organised by the EFC, the European Cyclists’ Federation, which will be taking place in Ljubljana from 14 to 17 June. SACBO, represented by the president Giovanni Sanga and accompanied by Luca Gibellini, the environmental representative of the airport management company for the development of cycle path networks and bicycle use, took part on Wednesday 15 June in the event “Putting your employees on a bike: the impact of the Cycle Friendly Employer (CFE) certification scheme”, during which a presentation was made of the process that led SACBO to first receive Cycle Friendly Employer certification (the first European airport management company and the first Italian company to achieve “silver” ranking) in 2021, and then, in the same year, to obtain “Bicycle-Friendly Airport” certification, the first European airport to achieve this prestigious goal. 

07.06.22

THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE HELLOSKY LOUNGE AT MILAN BERGAMO AIRPORT

The HelloSky Lounge is celebrating its first anniversary since it opened in the departures area at Milan Bergamo Airport. Dedicated to international and domestic traffic and situated just before the new passport control area at the entrance to the non-Schengen area, its management has been entrusted by SACBO to GIS, a leading company in airport hospitality services based in Barcelona, Spain, and a branch of TAV Operation Services (TAV OS). The first anniversary was celebrated with a special cake in the presence of Albert Vilumara Perez, the CEO of CIS, Emilio Bellingardi, the managing director of SACBO, and Matteo Bau, the non-aviation commercial director for SACBO. Over the course of its first year of activity, the HelloSky Milan Bergamo Lounge, one of the most elegant, extensively equipped and fitted on the national and international scene, has been warmly received by its guests, to the extent of receiving the highest possible score in the survey of appreciation by airport users periodically carried out by the Airports Council International (ACI) World. 

26.05.22

SKY ALPS TO OPERATE THE MILAN BERGAMO - BRAC ROUTE FROM 9 JULY

Following the successful opening of its routes connecting Central and Northern Europe - which are making a significant contribution to the increase in tourist flow towards the Alto-Adige region and balancing the fall in movement caused by the conflict in Eastern Europe - as well as Southern Italy and the Italian islands, with scheduled flights already operating at an average of more than 70% capacity at the beginning of the season, less than a year from the beginning of operations SKY ALPS has made a significant market move. For summer 2022, SKY ALPS TOUR OPERATOR will be running the only direct flight for a Croatian island - the spectacular BRAC, a journey of one hour and fifteen minutes - offering Italians a brand-new destination; “A side of Dalmatia you won’t expect”, offering premium services (selected hotels and cruises around the archipelago) for a refined market at highly accessible prices.