With the arrival of summer, FlixBus strengthens connections with Catania and Sicily, focusing both on the island’s centers of historical-cultural interest and on its seaside resorts. This reflects the company’s desire to facilitate knowledge of the area by supporting a more environmentally friendly approach to travel, based on the use of collective means of transport.
Throughout the summer Catania will be connected, for example, with Rome up to 19 times a week, with Naples up to 14, with Bari up to 21 and with Cosenza and Lamezia Terme up to 28.
They will also operate up to seven weekly trips with various centers in southern Italy such as Brindisi, Lecce, Matera and Taranto and large centers in the center and north of the peninsula, such as Florence and Milan (up to 14 trips per week) and Bologna and Turin (up to seven). Especially on long-distance connections, the availability of night routes will allow travelers to arrive in the area by sleeping on the bus and optimizing time.
In addition to the city bus station, FlixBus will also stop at Catania-Fontanarossa airport, with the aim of providing a more widespread service also to those arriving on the island on long-haul flights.
With the strengthening of summer connections, the number of cities in Sicily that can be reached on board the green buses rises to around 20: by guaranteeing connections also with the hinterland, FlixBus intends to facilitate people’s movements also towards places less easily reachable from other regions and, at the same time , contribute to the deconcentration of tourist flows and the promotion of internal areas, which the public debate has recognized as possible development hubs for more sustainable lifestyles.
Tickets can be booked from the website and the free FlixBus app, as well as from physical retailers throughout Italy.
How to reconcile sustainability and cost-effectiveness? The bus as a possible solution.
When considering emission factors in Europe, a personal car produces on average 166 grams of CO2 per passenger per km, while a FlixBus bus is characterized by an average emission factor of only 27.8 grams of CO2 per passenger per km , more than 5 times lower.
By preferring the bus to the car, those who travel will be able to reduce their impact at a limited expense. The benefits of this approach to the choice of means, which combines the needs of sustainability and cost-effectiveness, can be seen above all in the long term: in 2023, those who preferred FlixBus and FlixTrain to other solutions in the over 40 countries where the company operates, allowed to save over 1 million tons of CO2, of which 152,000 in Italy alone.
