With the music of DJ Damianito, the carrier also announces this year its sponsorship of the Red Valley Festival, the musical event that has enlivened the Sardinian nights since 2015.
The airline once again confirms its commitment to Sardinia and the strategic importance of this market, reiterating its firm desire to remain and continue to grow on the island.
Seatbelts fastened, soft lights… the DJ set is about to take off! Volotea, the low-cost airline that connects small and medium-sized European cities, hosted a special DJ set on the Verona-Olbia flight on Wednesday 5 June, with Damianito – an internationally successful Italian DJ, producer and remixer – who unleashed all the passengers at 10,000 meters above sea level. With this event, the company confirms its sponsorship of the Red Valley Festival for this year too, the reference event that has warmed up the Sardinian nights since 2015.
A large stage, 4 evenings and many of the best artists on the music scene: The Red Valley Festival returns to the Olbia Arena from 14 to 17 Augustone of the most awaited events among music lovers and beyond, among the unmissable live performances and DJ sets, will bring to the stage all the best of national and international music. Among this year’s guests Annalisa, Geolier, Max Pezzali, Ghali, Ball Enough, Salmo&Noyz, Macklemore, Thomas Paradise And Charlotte De Wittejust to name a few.
“Renewing the sponsorship of the Red Valley Festival means once again confirming our long-lasting and firm commitment to Sardinia and the strategic importance of the island, as well as Olbia, one of our operational bases, further reiterating our desire to remain and continue our growth path in the area – commented Valeria Rebasti, International Market Director of Volotea -. Also for this summer we are preparing to hit the slopes at the Costa Smeralda with an unprecedented offer in terms of destinations: we operate 28 connections, 14 domestic and 14 international, thus offering the possibility of reaching the festival even more easily hotter than summer, for a holiday full of music, sun and sea”.
“We are thrilled to have Volotea at our side once again which, thanks to its convenient and fast connections with all of Europe, will allow music lovers to reach the Festival and enjoy 4 days of music and entertainment to the fullest – says Luca Usai, Event Manager of the Red Valley Festival -. Also this year the Red Valley, now in its eighth edition, will be a unique opportunity to experience the concerts of all the most acclaimed artists of the pop, urban, rap, indie and electronic scene, together on the stage of the Olbia Arena for 40 total hours of live music”.
Tickets for the individual days of the event are already available online on the official Festival website. Furthermore, for true enthusiasts it is possible to purchase, again on the official Red Valley website, the “Festival Full Pass” subscription, to attend all four evenings (from 14 to 17 August 2024).
Present in Olbia since 2012, Volotea connects Costa Smeralda airport with 28 destinationsconfirming the centrality of the Sardinian port: 14 in Italy (Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Milan Bergamo, Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Rome Fiumicino, Turin, Venice and Verona) and 14 abroad (Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia, Bordeaux, Brest – new for 2024, Deauville, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris Orly, Strasbourg and Toulouse).
All flights are on sale on the website www.volotea.com and in travel agencies.
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Volotea was founded in 2011 by Carlos Muñoz and Lázaro Ros, previously founders of Vueling. It is one of the fastest growing independent companies in Europe over the last 10 years. Year after year, it has seen its fleet, the number of routes operated and the offer of seats for sale grow. This year the airline celebrated the milestone of 60 million passengers carried.
Volotea flies towards more than 110 airports and has bases in 21 medium-sized European cities: Asturias, Athens, Bari (new 2024) Bilbao, Bordeaux, Brest (new 2024), Cagliari, Florence (from April 2023), Hamburg, Lille, Lyon, Lourdes, Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Strasbourg, Toulouse , Venice and Verona.
In 2024, Volotea will operate over 450 routes (of which more than half exclusively), it will offer between 12.5 and 13 million seats (between 12% and 16% more than in 2023) and will carry out approximately 80,000 flights. The company has also expanded its fleet and will operate with 44 Airbus A319 and A320.
Volotea is working to achieve a more sustainable future in the aviation sector. The airline intends achieve the goal of reducing direct CO2 emissions per passenger-kilometer by 50% by 2025, five years ahead of the initial program. Furthermore, the airline has set a new, even more ambitious goal: reduce emissions by 58% by 2030. To date, Volotea has launched over 50 sustainability initiatives which have already led to one reduction of carbon footprint per passenger per kilometer by more than 45%. Since 2022, the company has been working on the development of alternative emissions-free technologies, operates Airbus’ internal shuttle service with 34% sustainable aviation fuel and works with manufacturers and industry to ensure that these fuels (today difficult to access) can be developed and disseminated as soon as possible.
Volotea will employ approximately 2,060 people in 2024, and actively promotes connectivity within the territories in which it is based, contributing to their economic development and enriching the cultural landscape through high-impact sponsorship projects.
Volotea was recognized by Skytrax, in its global passenger satisfaction survey, as the “Best Low-Cost Airline in Europe” at the 2023 World Airline Awardsdefined by the media around the world “the Oscars of the aviation industry”. The airline adds this recognition to its growing list of successes, which includes three such victories “Europe’s leading low-cost airline” at the 2021, 2022 and 2024 World Travel Awards.
