Flights to Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt? Watch where you land: the list of 'red herring' airports
One reads 'Dusseldorf. And one books. Yes, it is true that it says (in parentheses or not) 'Weeze' on the side. But, one [...]
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One reads 'Dusseldorf'. And book. Yes, it is true that on the side it says (in parentheses or not). 'Weeze'. But, one says, it will be a bit like Milan 'Linate' or Rome 'Fiumicino.' In short, a suburb of the German city. On the other hand, airports (except London City) mica stand within urban cores.
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But don't go and see (on Maps, for example). where Weeze is located, it would be a huge mistake. Why German airport is actually located 100 kilometers from Dusseldorf, a stone's throw from the Dutch border.
Ryanair flies there almost exclusively and, mind you, they fly there From and to quite a number of Italian cities: Ancona, Bari, Bergamo, Cagliari, Crotone, Pescara and Trapani (in strict alphabetical index).
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Weeze's is the most classic example of the airports that in Europe are associated by low-cost carriers (especially Ryanair) with large cities. But which are actually located far away from them, with inevitable long, tiring, and stressful airport/city7airport trips.
In Europe are about a dozen, at least half of which are connected with Italian cities. Also in Germany is the most striking case among those on the continent: it is 'Frankfurt Hahn'. Historic stronghold of Ryanair, lies lost in the countryside 125 kilometers from the country's financial capital. And the airport-to-city (or vice versa) travel time can also exceed two hours.
Hahn is one of the airports, among what we might call 'mirrors for the larks,' most connected to Italy, since Ryanair flies us to and from Alghero, Bari, Bergamo, Cagliari, Catania, Lamezia, Palermo, Pescara, Reggio Calabria, Rome Fiumicino, and Venice.
Quite a number of flights to the Belpaese are also on Memmingen, marketed as Munich Memmingen. Located some eighty kilometers west of Bavaria's capital., is connected to Alghero, Brindisi, Lamezia, Naples, Palermo, Pescara, Pisa and Rome Fiumicino.
In Spain there are 'Barcelona Girona' and Valencia Castellon: the former, 74 kilometers from the capital of Catalonia in the direction of France, has flights to and from Bari, Pescara and Pisa, the second about eighty kilometers north of Valencia is connected only to Bergamo (all flights are Ryanair).
The Catalan capital, whose 'real' airport is the famous El Prat located about ten kilometers from the center, has a second airport marketed as 'its own' which is that of Reus which is 88 kilometers to the south. But it has no flights to Italy.
Instead, it has them, in France, the airport of 'Paris Beauvais,' which is 'Ryanair's Paris' (which serves neither Charles De Gaulle nor Orly), But it is located 70 kilometers north of the Ville Lumière and is connected with Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Milan Malpensa, Palermo, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Rome Fiumicino, Trieste, and Venice (and, in summer, also with Olbia and Naples).
Instead, it has no, and it comes to be said fortunately, flights to and from our country Paris Vatry, which is the European record holder as to the distance from the city it (should) serve and which is located at the beauty of 147 kilometers from the French capital.
There are also no routes over Italy from 'Stockholm Skavsta' and 'Stockholm Vasteras', 100 and 110 kilometers from the Swedish capital, respectively.. While, still staying in northern Europe, we fly from 'Oslo Torp' (110 kilometers southeast of the Norwegian capital). With Ryanair in Bergamo and Pisa.
The 'bad' thing about these stopovers (besides clearly the distance) is that Are all connected to the city intended as a destination by road vehicles (buses) whose travel times are unpredictable compared to those offered by rail links and only add stress to the trip.
Different is the case with airports that may be distant from the relevant city but are served by rail: London Southend, for example, has little to do with the English capital, being on the Thames estuary more than 40 kilometers from Tower Bridge, but the presence of the station outside the terminal makes travel times to and from the English capital certain.
And how are we in Italy? Bergamo continues to be marketed by Ryanair as 'Milan Bergamo' and both the Irish low-cost and Wizz Air sell 'Venice Treviso' to and from some 40 destinations. The Treviso airport is 30 kilometers from the lagoon city, while 'Marco Polo' is a stone's throw away.
