First two flights to Salerno take off: official reopening of Campania airport today
The first two direct flights to 'Salerno Costa d'Amalfi' airport (whose IATA code is QSR) have taken off. These are [...]
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They are First two direct flights take off at 'Salerno Amalfi Coast' airport (whose IATA code is QSR). It is about the Volotea V72152, an Airbus A319 departed from Nantes. at 6 a.m., and of theeasyjet U23609, an A320 departed from Milan Malpensa at 7:05 a.m. This last flight Was completely sold out in the hours before departure and, yesterday, it was no longer for sale on the British low-cost website.
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The arrival of the two flights a QSR is scheduled at a very short distance, respectively 8:25 a.m. and 8:35 a.m.: The first to hit the runway at Salerno was Volotea at 8 a.m. split, followed 10 minutes later by easyJet.
The Nantes (departed for the Breton city a few minutes late, at 9:39 a.m.) and the Milan Malpensa (took off at 9:32 a.m.) are also the only two flights scheduled for the day at QSR, where a ceremony/press conference will be held at 11:30 a.m. at which Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca, Enac President Pierluigi Di Palma, and Gesac (the company that manages Naples and Salerno airports) President Carlo Borgomeo will speak.
The airport in recent years, Has been equipped with new air-side infrastructure: the runway, which was lengthened from 1,650 to 2,000 meters to allow unrestricted landing for all aircraft up to B737 and A320 family size, taxiways, and the apron in front of the terminal, which dates back to 2007 and will be replaced in 2026 by an entirely new building also equipped with 5 boarding bridges.
The operational will get richer as the days and weeks pass, until it peaks (for summer 2024) on September 2. Easyjet, in fact, in addition to the flight to and from Milan (tri-weekly) has scheduled from July 12 connections (biweekly) with Berlin, Geneva and Basel e from July 13 those (always biweekly) with its main hub in London Gatwick.
Volotea will add to the Nantes (biweekly) the Cagliari (also biweekly) from July 13, as well as Verona and Catania (always twice a week) from September 2.
Ryanair ini will begin flights in August: Tri-weekly ones for Bergamo will be triggered on the 1st. followed on August 2 from those for Turin (always three times a week) and 4 from those (biweekly) for London Stansted.
A fourth (and little-known) company will begin serving QSR from July 29: it is the Maltese Universal Air, which Will connect Salerno with Malta twice a week Using Dash 8-400 turboprops.
The weekly connection count at the beginning of September will thus rise to 29. But that won't be all there will be, because during the peak summer season several charter flights to Greece and Tunisia will be moved from Naples Capodichino to QSR.
