2026, flight from Salerno: British, easyjet and Wizz Air quit. After a year and a half, traffic plunges at the 'Amalfi Coast'
The title that paraphrases that of the famous movie '1997, Escape from New York' fits like a glove. Because companies and destinations [...]
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The title that paraphrases that of the famous movie '1997, Escape from New York' fits like a glove.
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Why companies and destinations are escaping month after month at Campania's second airport, which had reopened to commercial flights After several years of 'coma' in the spring of 2024, following major renovation work on flight facilities (runway, taxiways, aircraft apron).
To mark the occasion, TFC had flown to Salerno on easyjet's inaugural flight on the day scheduled connections resumed. And the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, had held 'christened' its reopening, considered extremely strategic due to its proximity to the Amalfi Coast.
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The response from carriers had been good, partly due to the fact that Naples Capodichino, less than a hundred kilometers away, is almost at saturation point and the 'Amalfi Coast' could also be considered a good alternative in terms of access to the desired slots. EasyJet, Volotea (the first to land that day in Salerno), Ryanair, Wizz Air e Vueling had responded in kind, initiating connections both with other cities in Italy and with foreign destinations.
And when a legacy carrier like British announced that, in Summer 2025, it would connect the Salerno airport with London Gatwick four times a week, everyone's belief was that the airport had definitely taken off.
Instead, in recent months, things have taken a very different turn. Starting a reverse trend that currently seems unstoppable had been the British leisure company Jet2 which had announced direct connections to Manchester and Birmingham for last summer, only to blow it off.
Then there was the 'hit' of British Which, Despite having planned encore seasonal flights to and from Gatwick by starting them from the end of March 2026, thus two months ahead of what it had done in 2025, then erased everything no longer making flights bookable on its site.
Therefore, easyjet has discontinued the Salerno-Geneva and the Salerno-Berlin. Cancellations that were followed by the announcement of Ryanair that the Salerno-Turin flight would only last until the end of Winter 2025-2026. Also Europe's third low-cost by fleet size, Wizz Air, dropped from seven destinations to two and now to zero, focusing on operations in Campania on Capodichino.
And when, a few hours ago, easyjet announced that as of April 1, there will be no more Salerno-Milan Malpensa, basically 'eliminating itself' from the carriers serving the 'Amalfi Coast', the alarm has been sounded by area tourism operators and local governments.
In practice, at the moment, Summer 2026 sees the operations of only two carriers on Salerno. Volotea will connect the Campania airport twice a week with Nantes (2 times on Mondays and Thursdays) and Lyon (on Tuesdays and Fridays), while Ryanair will serve Bergamo (3 times a week on Monday, Friday and Sunday) and 2 times a week Vienna (Mondays and Saturdays), London Stansted (Monday and Saturday) and Brussels Charleroi (Wednesday and Sunday).
The effects of flight and destination dropouts have already begun to be felt during the month of October, when 26,547 passengers passed through Salerno, down 9% from the same month in 2024 And, in a far more important way, in November, which saw just 15,479 passengers compared to 35,703 in the same month last year, a drop of more than 50% in transits.
