It’s a new era for Milan Bergamo Airport, with the official inauguration of the new departures terminal, which cost €55 million.
The introduction of latest-generation X-ray machines 
The work began in March 2024 and ended “after 622 days, in total compliance with the planned timetable,- says SACBO president Giovanni Sanga, -with an investment of €55 million, of which €41 million for the infrastructural part and €14 million for the purchase of latest-generation X-ray machines. This is an important step for our airport, which in the last quarter of a century has become strategic for domestic and international connections.”
Liquids and electronic devices can be kept in hand luggage
The enlargement of the eastern front of the terminal now has a new area on the first floor on 7,500 sqm with 14 lines for security checks equipped with the most advanced technological machines, which allow liquids of up to two litres per container and electronic devices to be kept in hand luggage. The first line is reserved for passengers with reduced mobility, families with small children and fast-track passengers. Access to the security control area is regulated by nine gates for reading boarding passes.
30 new self check-in stations
On the ground floor of the departures terminal, the 4,300 sqm area has been renovated with the enlargement of the check-in hall with 30 new stations in self check-in mode, for a total of 64, and the doubling of the space reserved for the baggage sorting system. The infrastructural works programme also made it possible to expand the non-Schengen departure area by 840 sqm, with the addition of two new boarding gates.
Milan Bergamo will become an “aerotropolis”
"There is also a presence detection system based on artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to monitor passenger flows in real time, and on the upper floor of the terminal there is the new duty-free shop” The inauguration - attended by the civil, military and religious authorities, with ENAC president Pierluigi Di Palma and Assaeroporti president Carlo Borgomeo – was an introduction to the next, fundamental step forward which will be the railway connection that by the end of 2026 will link “the airport to the centre of Bergamo and Milan, with up to 154 trains a day, via Treviglio or Carnate”. A new airport service centre will also be opened with a hotel (Hilton Garden Inn, Ed.). ”For Milan Bergamo becoming an “aerotropolis” - as sector studies see the future of airports - will be a natural evolution.”
