Volotea will inaugurate tomorrow, Thursday 18 April, the connection to Brest from Rome Fiumicino airport. The northwestern city of France will be reachable with two weekly frequenciesThursday and Sunday.
With a’total offer of over 20 thousand seats for salethe vector expands its portfolio of destinations available from the Roman airport and strengthens its presence in Leonardo da Vinci airport, helping to support the flow of incoming tourists towards the capital. For 2024 there are 8 cities connected by Volotea from the Roman airport: 1 in Italy (Olbia), 6 in France (Bordeaux, Brest – new 2024, Lille, Lourdes/Tarbes, Nantes and Strasbourg) and 1 in Spain (Bilbao) .
To support incoming
“From tomorrow we will further shorten the distances between the capital and France – he commented Valeria Rebasti, international market director of Volotea -. With the new connection, the many French tourists will have an additional opportunity to organize an escape to Rome, to discover art, history and good food. Brest enriches our bouquet of destinations: the international connections available from Rome Fiumicino thus rise to 7, to which is also added the important route with territorial continuity to and from Olbia”.
Federico Scriboni, head of aviation business development at Aeroporti di Romaunderlines that, “the growth of Volotea once again confirms the great attractiveness of our market – he declares –, the flight to Brest further enriches the network of air connections for France, second international market for passenger volumesexpanding the offer to 16 destinations served directly from Rome Fiumicino during the summer of 2024″.
Volotea’s numbers
Volotea flies to more than 110 airports and has bases in 21 medium-sized European cities. In 2024 it will operate over 450 routes (of which more than half are exclusive), will offer between 12.5 and 13 million seats (between 12% and 16% more than in 2023) and will carry out around 80 thousand flights. The company has also expanded its fleet and will operate 44 Airbus A319s and A320s.
Sustainability objectives
On the sustainability front it intends to achieve the objective of reduce direct CO2 emissions per passenger-kilometre by 50% by 2025with five years ahead of the initial schedule. Furthermore, it has set a new goal: to reduce emissions by 58% by 2030.
To date, it has launched over 50 sustainability initiatives that have resulted in a reduction of its carbon footprint per passenger per kilometer by more than 45%.
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