flights with the Austrian capital inaugurated
The Perugia-Vienna flights have officially departed. The are scheduled connections on Mondays and Fridays. With the inauguration of this new route to and from the capital of Austria, the international airport of Umbria “San Francesco d’Assisi” has 15 destinations in its network and over 80 weekly scheduled flights operated at the airport.
While waiting for the statistics relating to June, April and May, Sase announced that they recorded new traffic records as regards the statistics month on month, thanks to the six new routes that have been inaugurated (Barcelona, Bucharest and Brindisi with Ryanair, Lamezia Terme and Trapani with Albastar and London Heathrow with British Airways) and excellent register filling performance on all flights. The month of July, in addition to the departure of the new connections to Vienna, will also see the inauguration of the new route to / from Tirana which will mark the return of Wizz Air to the “San Francesco d’Assisi”.
Umberto Solimeno, SASE General Manager, declared: “We are extremely satisfied with the flight trend at the Perugia airport – comments Umberto Solimeno, general manager of the company that manages the airport – In 2022 the traffic, in terms of aircraft movements and passengers, has seen a surge that until a few months ago was completely unimaginable. During the year, 8 new routes were planned, for a total of 16 destinations connected to the airport: this is a source of great satisfaction for the whole territory and is certainly the signal that we are working in the right direction. The Umbria airport is located in a highly strategic position, serving a vast area of central Italy of extraordinary beauty and great tourist attraction. The development of intermodality, on which we are working in a concrete way, will allow us to expand our catchment area and will be a further and necessary step towards achieving the objectives we have set for ourselves relating to the increase in passenger traffic “.