The airport was established in October 1926 with a 1,300-metre (4,300 ft) landing runway.

[2] In June 2016, a public opinion poll decided to no longer support the highly deficient airport with money from the government.

South Tyrol spent over €120 million in recent years for the airport without attracting any lasting scheduled traffic.

[3] Darwin Airline ceased their PSO-flights to Rome on behalf of Alitalia on 18 June 2015 leaving Bolzano Airport again without any scheduled commercial traffic.

[4] In 2019, the South Tyrol government sold the airport to ABD Holding, a private company of entrepreneurs Josef Gostner, René Benko and Hans Peter Haselsteiner, for a price of 3.8 million euros.