FOGGIA – The routes of the Easy To Reach service, created by the Puglia Region with the collaboration of the Puglia Airports to connect the Puglia airports with the main locations of the Region throughout the summer of 2024 with direct buses, depart and arrive on completely timed out of phase with respect to the flights operated at Foggia airport. The message from the “Mondo Gino Lisa” association is civil but strong, as it is working hard for the development of the Foggia airport and also for this shuttle service which is fundamental and useful for the development and growth of the Foggia Airport and the entire vast territory for which it operates. Specifically: on Saturday there is no service from Gargano compatible with the only take-off (for Milan Linate) scheduled on that day, as the bus arrives at “Gino Lisa” 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; the bus travel times to and from Castel del Monte are incompatible with all the weekly timetables of the flights operated by Gino Lisa; for connections with Cerignola, there is no route compatible with the most important flight of the day, i.e. Milan Linate.
«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 amend 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. «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 basis 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.
