The season of flights to Rimini takes off: London, Budapest, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, Cagliari and Palermo the most popular destinations
Rimini, planes almost full: the flight season takes off. London, Budapest, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, Cagliari, Palermo: some destinations are very popular. The war has caused forecasts to be revised downwards. The 2022 target is 250,000 passengers
LUCA BALDUZZI – For 2022, Rimini Federico Fellini Airport is aiming for 250,000 passengers. The account that presents the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, already anticipated by the CEO of AiRiminum, Leonardo Corbucci, in the first days of the war, is decidedly salty. (…)
“We expected to well exceed half a million passengers (2019, the last year of full speed work, closed with 400,000, ed) – Corbucci recalls -. We lose about 300,000 passengers. We had planned about fifty flights a week, forty from Russia and ten from Ukraine, operated by seven Russian and three Ukrainian airlines. It is clear that war conditions us a lot. We hope that in 2023 the scenario can improve. It can only get better ”. In the meantime, “we have already left with Ryanair, with the eight destinations Budapest, Cagliari, Krakow, Kaunas, London, Palermo, Warsaw, Vienna, and Wizzair, with Tirana and working to anticipate the departure of the connection with Bucharest scheduled for September – he explains -. These will be joined by Albawings, Luxair, some companies connected to tour operators, such as Tez Tour for flights to Vilnius, and other companies that will develop charter flights, such as Neos ”. Some destinations are already very popular: “For Ryanair’s connection with Budapest we have five weekly flights, practically a daily service, and it is going very well – he adds -. Wizzair is also flying nearly full 230-seat aircraft, a great success. In general, aircraft fill rates are closer to those of 2019 than to those of 2021, because some flights operate at full rate – he continues -. A situation even better than expected, because we imagined a slower recovery in the propensity to travel “. (…)
Article taken from Corriere Romagna