Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bolgn : Bologna Airport, agreement with users on the 2020-2023 charges proposal and start of the verification by the Transport Regulation Authority

AEROPORTO DI BOLOGNA: AGREEMENT WITH USERS ON THE 2020-2023

CHARGES PROPOSAL AND START OF THE VERIFICATION BY THE TRANSPORT

REGULATION AUTHORITY

On 12 September 2019 the Users' Public Hearing was held, concerning the new charges proposal of Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna S.p.A. for the four-year period 2020- 2023.

The Airport Operator and Airport Users have reached a broad agreement on the new charges proposal for the 2020-2023 period.

According to time and methods provided by the Model defined by the Transport Regulation Authority, the new charges proposal was published today on the Company's website www.bologna-airport.it on the "Business Aviation / Airport Fees & Charges" page, in the Corporate area, and at the same time was sent to the Users and to the associations and also to ART for the verification of competence.

At the end of the Public Hearing, the Airport Operator, in agreement with the Users, postponed the discussion on SLA (Service Level Agreement) for the period 2020-2023 and on the Reduced Mobility Passengers fee proposal for 2020 to an additional session, scheduled for October 1, 2019.

Bologna, 19 September 2019

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Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, classified as a "strategic airport" in the centre-north area of the National Airports Plan prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, in 2018 was the eighth biggest Italian airport by passenger numbers, with 8.5 million passengers, of which 76,8% on international flights (Source: Assaeroporti). Located in the heart of the Emilian food valley and the automotive and packaging industrial districts, the airport has a catchment area of about 11 million inhabitants and around 47,000 companies, with a strong propensity to exports and internationalisation and with commercial expansion policies to Eastern Europe and Asia.

In 2018 114 destinations were served from Bologna: the presence at the airport of some of the largest airlines in Europe along with some of the leading low-cost carriers and the close link with European continental hubs make Bologna Italy's forth airport in for global connectivity (Source: ICCSAI - Fact Book 2017) and the first in Europe in terms of growth of connectivity in the decade from 2004 to 2014 (Source: ACI Europe Airport Connectivity Report 2004-2014).

As for airport infrastructure, the airport has among its strategic objectives in the next few years an important development plan that mainly concerns the expansion of the terminal, particularly in the parts of security checks and gate area. The company's aim is to make Bologna Airport one of the most modern and functional in Italy, an important gateway to the city and region.

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