Salerno (re)opens with a bang: bookings, numbers from first three weeks at Campania airport
We are just hours away from the reopening of the 'Salerno Amalfi Coast' airport to commercial air traffic. The airport has seen its [...]
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Ryanair
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Missing just hours to the reopening of the 'Salerno Amalfi Coast' airport to commercial air traffic. The airport saw its last flights in 2016.
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Today it has 'airside' infrastructure (runway, which has been lengthened to 2,000 meters in length, taxiways, apron and lighting) that has been completely renovated and in two years' time it will have a completely new passenger terminal.
Competing for the palm of the first landing Thursday, July 11 will be a Volotea Airbus A319 from Nantes and an easyjet A320 from Milan Malpensa, which are scheduled to arrive five minutes apart.
From July 12, the British low-cost carrier will also connect the 'Amalfi Coast' to Berlin, Geneva and Basel and, as of July 13, also at its main hub in London Gatwick. Volotea, on the other hand, will add Cagliari July 13 and Verona and Catania Sept. 2.
Ryanair will also arrive in August with three weekly flights to Bergamo and Turin and two a week for London Stansted. A fourth carrier, the Maltese company Universal Air, will have two weekly services on Mondays and Thursdays for Malta, operated with Dash 8-400 turboprop.
During July, there will be a total of 15 weekly flights, rising to 25 during August and 29 from early September, pending then to see what remains in the winter of the summer operation.
The response from travelers has been excellent, at least judging from data provided by the Campania-based online newspaper pangeapress.it, according to which In the three weeks that the 'Salerno Amalfi Coast' opened during July, more than 6,500 passengers have already been booked. Numbers that are expected to rise sharply in August, when the other European low-cost giant, Ryanair, will also make its debut at the Campania airport.
