Bolzano Airport will close for two weeks in November 2021. The only runway is being extended. The construction work is expected to be completed by the end of November 2021.
The Skyalps house brand intends that Winter program to be used from December 3, 2021. Flights to Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London and Rotterdam are also planned. The target group are winter sports enthusiasts who want to spend their vacation in South Tyrol.
The runway extension is also controversial because it is alleged that the Habitat of a rare toad species destroyed became. The extended runway should enable larger commercial aircraft to take off and land in Bolzano. Whether you want to exceed the size class of the DHC Dash 8-400 under the Skyalps brand is left open. In the summer of 2022, Luxwing should operate at least one other machine of this type for Skyalps.