# Brindisi Airport (BDS / LIBR)

**Brindisi Airport** (IATA: BDS, ICAO: LIBR) is a large airport in Brindisi, Apulia, Italy. It opened in 1923. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,048 m (10,000 ft). It is operated by Aeroporti di Puglia. In 2025 it handled 3.5 million passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/libr

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: BDS / LIBR
- Type: Large airport
- Operator: Aeroporti di Puglia
- Serves: Brindisi, Apulia, Italy
- Opened: 1923
- Elevation: 14 m / 47 ft
- Coordinates: 40.6576, 17.9470
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 3,048 m / 10,000 ft
- Passengers: 3,467,702 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC+1/+2 · Europe/Rome
- Website: https://brindisi.airports.aeroportidipuglia.it
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindisi_Airport (22 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q849715
- Weather station: LIBR · WMO 16320
- Ident: LIBR

## Timeline

- 1923: Brindisi Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13/31 | 3,048 m / 10,000 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | yes |
| 05/23 | 1,796 m / 5,892 ft | 45 m / 148 ft | Asphalt | 053° / 233° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2014 | 2,156,582 | Eurostat |
| 2015 | 2,246,922 | Eurostat |
| 2016 | 2,320,280 | Eurostat |
| 2017 | 2,314,488 | Eurostat |
| 2018 | 2,499,007 | Eurostat |
| 2019 | 2,720,227 | Eurostat |
| 2020 | 1,023,833 | Eurostat |
| 2021 | 1,867,151 | Eurostat |
| 2022 | 3,088,516 | Eurostat |
| 2023 | 3,199,908 | Eurostat |
| 2024 | 3,411,428 | Eurostat |
| 2025 | 3,467,702 | Eurostat |

## Routes

48 destinations in 15 countries. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (22)

- [TIV](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lytv.md) Tivat Airport · Montenegro · 205 km / 127 mi · FlyOne
- [FCO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lirf.md) Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport · Italy · 493 km / 306 mi · ITA Airways, Ryanair
- [PEG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lirz.md) Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport · Italy · 525 km / 326 mi · Ryanair
- [TRS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipq.md) Trieste Airport · Italy · 680 km / 423 mi · Ryanair
- [BLQ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipe.md) Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport · Italy · 695 km / 432 mi · Ryanair
- [PSA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lirp.md) Pisa International Airport · Italy · 707 km / 439 mi · Ryanair
- [VRN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipx.md) Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport · Italy · 778 km / 483 mi · Ryanair
- [OTP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lrop.md) Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport · Romania · 796 km / 495 mi · Wizz Air
- [BGY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lime.md) Il Caravaggio International Airport · Italy · 869 km / 540 mi · Ryanair
- [LIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/liml.md) Milano Linate Airport · Italy · 882 km / 548 mi · ITA Airways
- [MXP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/limc.md) Milan Malpensa International Airport · Italy · 929 km / 577 mi · Ryanair, easyJet
- [TRN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/limf.md) Turin Airport · Italy · 978 km / 608 mi · Ryanair
- [STR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/edds.md) Stuttgart Airport · Germany · 1,127 km / 700 mi · Eurowings
- [BSL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lfsb.md) EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg · France · 1,133 km / 704 mi · easyJet
- [GVA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lsgg.md) Geneva International Airport · Switzerland · 1,138 km / 707 mi · easyJet
- [WMI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/epmo.md) Warsaw Modlin Airport · Poland · 1,327 km / 825 mi · Wizz Air
- [CRL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ebci.md) Brussels South Charleroi Airport · Belgium · 1,509 km / 938 mi · Ryanair
- [GDN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/epgd.md) Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport · Poland · 1,526 km / 948 mi · Ryanair
- [EIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eheh.md) Eindhoven Airport · Netherlands · 1,539 km / 956 mi · Ryanair
- [BVA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lfob.md) Beauvais-Tillé airport · France · 1,577 km / 980 mi · Ryanair
- [STN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egss.md) London Stansted Airport · United Kingdom · 1,838 km / 1,142 mi · Ryanair
- [MAN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egcc.md) Manchester Airport · United Kingdom · 2,071 km / 1,287 mi · Ryanair

### Seasonal (29)

- [SUF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lica.md) Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International Airport · Italy · 243 km / 151 mi · TUI fly Belgium
- [CTA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/licc.md) Catania-Fontanarossa Airport · Italy · 433 km / 269 mi · DAT
- [PMO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/licj.md) Falcone–Borsellino Airport · Italy · 500 km / 311 mi · Ryanair
- [VCE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipz.md) Venice Marco Polo Airport · Italy · 705 km / 438 mi · Ryanair
- [VRN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipx.md) Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport · Italy · 778 km / 483 mi · Neos
- [BZO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lipb.md) Bolzano Airport · Italy · 837 km / 520 mi · Sky Alps
- [GOA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/limj.md) Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport · Italy · 854 km / 531 mi · Ryanair
- [LIN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/liml.md) Milano Linate Airport · Italy · 882 km / 548 mi · easyJet
- [MXP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/limc.md) Milan Malpensa International Airport · Italy · 929 km / 577 mi · Neos
- [MUC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eddm.md) Munich Airport · Germany · 985 km / 612 mi · Air Dolomiti
- [FMM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/edja.md) Memmingen Allgau Airport · Germany · 1,019 km / 633 mi · Ryanair
- [PRG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lkpr.md) Václav Havel Airport Prague · Czechia · 1,088 km / 676 mi · Eurowings, Smartwings
- [KTW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/epkt.md) Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport · Poland · 1,095 km / 680 mi · Wizz Air
- [WRO](https://dromopedia.com/airports/epwr.md) Copernicus Wrocław Airport · Poland · 1,164 km / 723 mi · Ryanair
- [LYS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lfll.md) Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport · France · 1,183 km / 735 mi · easyJet
- [FRA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eddf.md) Frankfurt Main Airport · Germany · 1,272 km / 790 mi · Discover Airlines
- [LUX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ellx.md) Luxembourg-Findel International Airport · Luxembourg · 1,354 km / 841 mi · Luxair
- [CGN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eddk.md) Cologne Bonn Airport · Germany · 1,408 km / 875 mi · Eurowings
- [DUS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eddl.md) Düsseldorf Airport · Germany · 1,461 km / 908 mi · Eurowings
- [ORY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lfpo.md) Paris-Orly Airport · France · 1,520 km / 944 mi · easyJet, Transavia
- [BRU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ebbr.md) Brussels Airport · Belgium · 1,540 km / 957 mi · Brussels Airlines, TUI fly Belgium
- [RTM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ehrd.md) Rotterdam The Hague Airport · Netherlands · 1,624 km / 1,009 mi · Transavia
- [AMS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eham.md) Amsterdam Airport Schiphol · Netherlands · 1,637 km / 1,017 mi · TUI fly Netherlands
- [NTE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lfrs.md) Nantes Atlantique Airport · France · 1,719 km / 1,068 mi · Volotea
- [MAD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/lemd.md) Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport · Spain · 1,813 km / 1,127 mi · Ryanair
- [LGW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egkk.md) London Gatwick Airport · United Kingdom · 1,816 km / 1,128 mi · easyJet
- [LHR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/egll.md) London Heathrow Airport · United Kingdom · 1,852 km / 1,151 mi · British Airways
- [ARN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/essa.md) Stockholm-Arlanda Airport · Sweden · 2,112 km / 1,312 mi · Ryanair
- [DUB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/eidw.md) Dublin Airport · Ireland · 2,301 km / 1,430 mi · Ryanair, Aer Lingus

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from BDS, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (20)

- FR [Ryanair](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ryanair) · 23
- U2 [easyJet](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/easyjet) · 7
- EW [Eurowings](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/eurowings) · 4
- W6 [Wizz Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/wizz-air) · 3
- AZ [ITA Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ita-airways) · 2
- NO [Neos](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/neos) · 2 · seasonal
- HV [Transavia](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/transavia) · 2 · seasonal
- TB [TUI fly Belgium](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tui-fly-belgium) · 2 · seasonal
- EI [Aer Lingus](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/aer-lingus) · 1 · seasonal
- EN [Air Dolomiti](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/air-dolomiti) · 1 · seasonal
- BA [British Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/british-airways) · 1 · seasonal
- SN [Brussels Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/brussels-airlines) · 1 · seasonal
- DX [DAT](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/dat) · 1 · seasonal
- 4Y [Discover Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/discover-airlines) · 1 · seasonal
- 5F [FlyOne](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/flyone) · 1
- LG [Luxair](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/luxair) · 1 · seasonal
- BQ [Sky Alps](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/sky-alps) · 1 · seasonal
- QS [Smartwings](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/smartwings) · 1 · seasonal
- OR [TUI fly Netherlands](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tui-fly-netherlands) · 1 · seasonal
- V7 [Volotea](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/volotea) · 1 · seasonal

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 3.5M (2025) | #424 of 3,974 | #120 in Europe | #18 in IT |
| Longest runway | 3,048 m / 10,000 ft | =1,058 of 29,858 | =147 in Europe | #9 in IT |
| Elevation | 14 m / 47 ft | =39,466 of 43,403 | =5,291 in Europe | =454 in IT |
| Age | Opened 1923 | =216 of 15,079 | =163 in Europe | =31 in IT |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =135 in Europe | =4 in IT |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| APP | BRINDISI APP | 118.400 |
| APP | BRINDISI APP | 36.365 |
| GND | GND | 31.355 |
| TWR | BRINDISI TWR | 118.100 |
| ILS RWY 32 |  | 109.500 |

## Nearby airports

- [TAR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/libg.md) Taranto-Grottaglie Marcello Arlotta Airport · 48 km / 30 mi
- [LCC](https://dromopedia.com/airports/libn.md) Lecce Galatina Air Base / Galatina Fortunato Cesari Airport · 49 km / 31 mi
- [LIBV](https://dromopedia.com/airports/libv.md) Gioia del Colle Antonio Ramirez Air Base · 86 km / 54 mi
- [BRI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/libd.md) Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport · 113 km / 70 mi

## Sources

- [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/avia_paoa/default/table): Source: Eurostat (avia_paoa) (Eurostat reuse policy (CC BY 4.0))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Brindisi Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brindisi_Airport&oldid=1376277403), revision of 23 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/libr/data