Other than a few flights: Italy is at the top for intercontinental airports
In the collective imagination, Italian long-haul flights depart only from Rome or Milan, but the real map says otherwise: [...]
In the collective imagination, Italian long-haul flights depart only from Rome or Milan, but the real map says otherwise: from north to south they are many airports connected directly to the rest of the world. Italy has a larger network of intercontinental connections than people think, with nine airports that offer direct flights out of Europe.
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A figure that places it at the continental summits, on a par with the France (also with nine stopovers) and ahead of Spain (seven), United Kingdom (six) and Germany (four).
Nine Italian airports with intercontinental flights
Excluding Middle East e Mediterranean countries, and removing charters from the count, that leaves nine Italian airports from which one can fly to other parts of the world: Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa, Venice, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Catania, Bari and Lamezia Terme. Many flights are seasonal, often tourism-related, but fall under scheduled routes. The most frequent routes look to the United States and to North America, but there is no shortage of connections with Asia, Africa and South America.
The comparison with Europe
La France also has nine stopovers (Nice, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Toulouse and Nantes), but only Paris and Nice offer direct flights to the United States; from the other airports they fly only to the Canada. L'Italy, on the other hand, reaches the U.S. from eight of the nine airports cited: only exception Lamezia Terme, linked to Toronto with Air Transat.
An often underestimated force
Many routes are seasonal and operated by foreign carriers, but No other European country offers so many access points to the long haul distributed throughout the territory. In France or Germany everything is concentrated on one or two hubs, while in Italy the network is more fragmented but more widespread: A model that reflects the country's geography and the weight of international tourism.
