Bern Airport
| Bern Belp Airport Regionalflugplatz Bern-Belp Bern Belp air field |
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IATA: BRN – ICAO: LSZB
 BRN
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | ALPAR Flug- und Flugplatz- gesellschaft AG | ||
| Serves | Bern, Switzerland | ||
| Location | Belp | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 1,673 ft / 510 m | ||
| Coordinates | 46°54′44″N 07°29′57″E / 46.91222°N 7.49917°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 14/32 | 1,730 | 5,676 | Asphalt |
| 14L/32R | 650 | 2,133 | Grass |
| Source: Swiss AIP at EUROCONTROL | |||
Bern-Belp Airport (IATA: BRN, ICAO: LSZB) is an airport serving Bern in Switzerland. The airport is within the town limits of Belp,1 and it is often known simply as Belp Airport.
The airport has multiple touchdown areas, a paved runway (14/32 of 1,730 metres (5,676 ft)), a grass runway (32L/12R of 650 metres (2,133 ft)), a heli-square, and a glider area. Runway 14 has an ILS approach and an NDB approach.
Two bus lines serve the airport: the AirportBus Bern (line 334) connects the terminal every half hour with Belp Rail Station where passengers can connect to frequent S-Bahn trains S3, S4, S31 and S44 to Bern Rail Station. The journey time to Bern city center is 30 minutes. The Tangento bus (line 160) connects the airport with Belp, Konolfingen and Münsingen.
The Biderhangar, one of the airport's hangars built by Swiss aviation pioneer Oskar Bider, is listed as a heritage site of national significance in the November 2008 review draft of the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
The airport houses the head office of Heliswiss.2 Previously the North Terminal housed the head office of Sky Work Airlines.34
The future development includes new taxiways, but also a new parking area. According to the "Masterplan 2009-2020", a brand new area should be built for private aviation on the southern side of the airfield. A new terminal building for Schengen-flights was built in 2011.
The airport handled 184,831 passengers in 2011, a 82 per cent increase over 2010.5
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air France operated by Airlinair | Paris-Orly |
| Darwin Airline | Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca |
| Flybe | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Southampton |
| Helvetic Airways | Seasonal: Brindisi, Catania, Corfu, Enfidha, Heraklion, Heringsdorf [begins 26 May 2012], Kos, Olbia, Oujda, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Zakynthos |
| Sky Work Airlines | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, London-City, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Fiumicino, Vienna Seasonal: Cagliari, Catania, Elba, Figari [begins 19 May 2012], Ibiza, Minorca, Nice [begins 16 May 2012], Olbia, Preveza, Reus, Rijeka, Split, Thessaloniki |
References
- ^ "Ortsplan." Town of Belp. Retrieved on 8 December 2010.
- ^ "Bern-Belp base." Heliswiss. Retrieved on 25 February 2011. "Heliswiss is an international helicopter company based at Bern-Belp Airport."
- ^ "Contact." SkyWork Airlines. Retrieved on 8 December 2010. "SkyWork Flughafen Bern-Belp Terminal Nord CH 3123 Bern-Belp."
- ^ "Terms and conditions." Sky Work Airlines. Retrieved on 8 December 2010. ""We", "our" "ourselves" and "us" means Sky Work Airlines Ltd., domiciled in Bern-Belp, Switzerland."
- ^ "[1]."
External links
- Berne-Belp Airport website (German)
- Berne-Belp Airport website (French)
- Berne-Belp Airport website (English)
- Classification of airports and airfields in Switzerland
- Biderhangar website
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