Pescara The summer reactivation of the flight to Turin is not enough to stop the decline in passengers at the Abruzzo airport.
It is the PD deputy Luciano D’Alfonso who reports the data from Assaeroporti which record, for the month of
May 9,537 fewer transits than in 2023 (equal to -10.6%), bringing the total number of users lost in the first five months of this year to 21,565 compared to the same period last year.
“All this is happening while the average of other Italian airports is going swimmingly,” D’Alfonso underlines, “in May the national figure reached +13.2%, and the nearby Ancona airport even recorded 16.2%.
More than a decline, it can be defined as a collapse, which at this point has become structural because the Pescara airport has been losing passengers since November 2023, with a single parenthesis in March, when there was a very slight increase (+1,324 transits) due to the low Easter (March 31)”.
“These results are due to the cancellation of flights to Milan Linate and Warsaw,” the Democratic MP points out, “in addition to the strong cuts to connections with Turin, Barcelona (Girona), Bergamo, Dusseldorf, Malta and Memmingen; furthermore, the timetables of some frequencies are much more inconvenient than a year ago”.
