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Old 21st Oct 2022, 14:02
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New airline and new airport.
Aeroitalia to fly 5x weekly to Bergamo in northern Italy from early Dec 2022. Yes, I was surprised at the short period between announcement and first flight
https://italiavola.com/2022/10/21/ar...ndra-heathrow/

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Old 21st Oct 2022, 18:03
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
New airline and new airport.
Aeroitalia to fly 5x weekly to Bergamo in northern Italy from early Dec 2022. Yes, I was surprised at the short period between announcement and first flight
https://italiavola.com/2022/10/21/ar...ndra-heathrow/
’I give it a season’ although in saying that, a bit more niche for the winter ski sorts ex LHR, probably same sorts who pay £900 for a flight to Santorini.
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Old 21st Oct 2022, 22:07
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
New airline and new airport.
Aeroitalia to fly 5x weekly to Bergamo in northern Italy from early Dec 2022. Yes, I was surprised at the short period between announcement and first flight
https://italiavola.com/2022/10/21/ar...ndra-heathrow/
Needless to say, Aeroitalia are marketing the route as "Milan Bergamo" (as do Ryanair).
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Old 21st Oct 2022, 22:30
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Where did they get the slots from, whoever they are?
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Needless to say, Aeroitalia are marketing the route as "Milan Bergamo" (as do Ryanair).
Its valid, actually it’s a couple of km closer than Malpensa to central Milan although no direct rail link. And better for areas to the north-east.

Bergamo is slightly overlooked but well worth a visit. Very picturesque old city, great restaurants and quite a bit going on. It’s also fairly progressive, veganism etc is quite big by Italian standards.
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Old 22nd Oct 2022, 07:37
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Its valid, actually it’s a couple of km closer than Malpensa to central Milan although no direct rail link. And better for areas to the north-east.

Bergamo is slightly overlooked but well worth a visit. Very picturesque old city, great restaurants and quite a bit going on. It’s also fairly progressive, veganism etc is quite big by Italian standards.
Yes, it's just under an hour by coach from BGY to the centre of Milan (on a good day).

And Bergamo's Città Alta is indeed bellissima !
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"It’s also fairly progressive, veganism etc is quite big by Italian standards."

Thanks for the warning!
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Needless to say, Aeroitalia are marketing the route as "Milan Bergamo" (as do Ryanair).
Maybe that's because the name of the airport is Milan Bergamo?

https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/en/
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Old 22nd Oct 2022, 09:08
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Maybe that's because the name of the airport is Milan Bergamo?

https://www.milanbergamoairport.it/en/
Yes, we all know how that works.




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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Yes, we all know how that works.




To be fair Bergamo Airport (Milan Orio Al Serio) is actually only 28 miles outside of the centre of Milan.

That’s less mileage than Gatwick is from London.
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IIRC there was a Spitting Image with London Mount Pleasant Airport - "less crowded than Heathrow, more convenient that Stansted................ "
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Old 22nd Oct 2022, 20:26
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Milan Bergamo Airport Rail Link

Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
Yes, it's just under an hour by coach from BGY to the centre of Milan (on a good day).

And Bergamo's Città Alta is indeed bellissima !
www.routesonline.com/airports/11195/milan-bergamo-airport/news/29/

www.lombardianotizie.online/treno-aeroporto-orio/

I've just and for some reason the links don't work even though I've only just read them.

You can still search routesonline using the Bergamo Airport code but nonetheless a railway link between Central Milan Railway Station and Milan Bergamo Airport was approved recently with construction already in progress.


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Old 26th Oct 2022, 21:26
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Originally Posted by Sotonsean
Regarding Terminal 1, does anyone know why it hasn't already been partially demolished. I would have thought that the adjoining and unused car park would have at least been demolished by now.

I'm looking forward to the day when Terminal 1 is finally demolished and construction of the Terminal 2 extension along with Terminal 2C finally gets underway.
The baggage system in T1 is still live and connected to the system in T2A, which is why there is the big black link from north side of T2 across to T1. In fact only just before Covid hit we only finished adding new baggage runs and extension to the T1 baggage system in the old T1 IDL area, as well as the BC97 new extension at apron level.

There are some more peripheral bits of T1 that will be due for demo next year.
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Originally Posted by GeeRam
The baggage system in T1 is still live and connected to the system in T2A, which is why there is the big black link from north side of T2 across to T1. In fact only just before Covid hit we only finished adding new baggage runs and extension to the T1 baggage system in the old T1 IDL area, as well as the BC97 new extension at apron level.

There are some more peripheral bits of T1 that will be due for demo next year.
Your obviously well informed on the matter and I really appreciate your in-depth reply.

I look forward to reading further updates regarding T1 in the near future and in particular news of anything due for demolition.
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Workers at Heathrow to strike in World Cup run-up,

terminal 2,3,&4 effected.
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Old 4th Nov 2022, 15:32
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Seems Lufthansa Cargo have launched an A321F FRA-LHR service, LH8358 / 8359 Wed and Fri.
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Old 4th Nov 2022, 19:54
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Originally Posted by Skipness One Foxtrot
Seems Lufthansa Cargo have launched an A321F FRA-LHR service, LH8358 / 8359 Wed and Fri.
Started on Wednesday, STA 0950/0955, STD 1120, though LH's website currently only shows ops up to the end of this month.
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Old 11th Nov 2022, 13:07
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Heathrow Airport has stated it will not re-introduce a cap on passenger numbers around Christmas. The UK's biggest airport said it was preparing for the biggest festive travel season in three years. Heathrow also predicted staffing would be back to pre-pandemic levels before the summer holidays.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63599191
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New Route

British Airways are launching flights to Cincinnati on the 5th June 2023 with five weekly flights on the 787-8 aircraft.

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Old 16th Nov 2022, 18:49
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Seem to recall BA used to have a schedule to CVG in the 80s using the TriStar. A long time ago now mind you, so cannot remember if there was anything mote recent.
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