with the war about 300,000 fewer passengers
There war in Ukrainea fear too tourism on the Romagna Riviera, traditional of Russian travelers, where the Ukrainian community is also consolidated, whose members are often employed in the tourism sector. L’Fellini airport of Rimini at the beginning of the year spoke of “turning point” e expected to close 2022 with 400,000 passengers.
Without the war “in 2022 it was done more than 2019”, that is the pre-Covid era, explains the CEO of Airiminum Leonardo Corbucci. But without the Russian and Ukrainian markets, the risk is a catastrophe. “To understand what the impact” of the war “is in our confrontation – Corbucci affirms – imagine us this year Made ten weekly flights from Ukraineabout forty from Russia “.” Multiplied by 300 “passengers per flight and” for 25 weeks, only these two markets in 2022 want cubed 300 thousand passengers“.
In recent times, the Fellini management company has undertaken to bring the main Russian airlines to Rimini. A month ago he had announced the deal with Tour annexone of the most important Russian tour operators in the world, whose plan included 15 weekly flights from Russia And due from Ukraine. On June 1st, he is ready to depart from a daily flight from Pobeda to Moscow which he is able to guarantee on his own 100 thousand passengers a year. But the context has now changed.
“This year if there hadn’t been a war you would have volumes of Russians that probably never existed in the past”, “Finding headlines or interviews in the newspapers – he added – against the Russians, in my opinion is speculating on a drama that is not good for the whole territory “.
However, positive news also arrives, in fact in recent days Francesca, the female roe deer who lived in Rimini airport for two years now and that was in danger of being demolished. Her story, with a happy ending, had kept Italy in suspense: “We hope – adds Corbucci – it can be a positive signal“.
In the report, the interview with Leonardo Corbucci (Chief Executive Officer Airiminum)