A commendable service but incompatible with flight times in Foggia. Mondo Gino Lisa raises the alarm about “Puglia Easi to Reach”, to connect the Apulian ports with the main locations of the Region throughout the summer of 2024 with direct buses.
THE ANOMALIES. For Gino Lisa worldin fact, “for the implementation of the initiative, the flight times operated at Foggia Airport do not appear to have been analysed, as the trips depart and arrive at times completely out of phase with them”. The community then goes into specifics: “On Saturday – they explain – there is no service from the Gargano compatible with the only take-off (for Milan Linate) scheduled for that day, as the bus arrives at the ‘Gino Lisa’ in 15 minutes after the flight departure time; Saturday is a very important day for tourist turnover in accommodation facilities and it is impossible not to make at least one useful connection available”. Another anomaly is that “the timetables of the bus trips to and from Castel del Monte are incompatible with all the weekly timetables of the flights operated by the Gino Lisa and for the connections with Cerignola, there is no route compatible with the most important flight of the day, or Milan Linate”.
THE REQUEST. «Since this Easy To Reach service is very important and fundamental for tourism, as well as financed with public funds at the service of citizens – comments Sergio Venturino, president of Mondo Gino Lisa -, our association has already formally written to Cotrap requesting it to intervene and review the timetables completely, highlighting that a failure to modify would lead to the certainty of making this initiative ineffective and useless, with consequent trips carried out in vain, rendering the laudable project that the Puglia Region has promoted for Summer 2024 in vain. To the letter sent, We have attached the flight times operated for the summer in Foggia. I also informed the Puglia Region of this reminder.” Mondo Gino Lisa, however, gets very concrete.
COUNTRYSIDE. «For at least two months we have started a real insistent communication campaign through our social channels, which pushes people to choose Foggia Airport and make it known – adds Andrea Casto, vice president of the association – providing all travelers with information based on everything that revolves around the “Gino Lisa” and a thousand reasons to travel to or from it. The target of this communication campaign is not limited to the province of Foggia but extends to the entire Vast Area and the territories directly connected by operational flights to the “Gino Lisa”: from the data in our possession there has been excellent feedback, also in terms of people who then actually flew to or from Foggia”. The growing numbers recorded in the months of April and May 2024 confirm the trend. The association has also created and self-produced information leaflets that can easily be carried in your pocket, present in various frequenting points in the province of Foggia and beyond
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