Milan Bergamo Airport in Italy has inaugurated its new ‘HelloSky’ lounge as well as welcoming the return of Air Arabia Maroc’s six-times weekly service to Casablanca.
The new lounge, which will be operated by GIS – the airport hospitality company specialising in managing lounges, is part of the Italian gateway’s development programme to enhance the airport infrastructure and improve the passenger experience. It is incorporated as part of the airport’s recent terminal expansion which was unveiled last year.
The new 600 sq.m. landside lounge is open to both domestic and international passengers and features exceptional Italian designed furniture using sustainable materials. It offers spaces to work, relax, eat and drink as well as showering facilities.
“We have built a strong relationship with SACBO during the last three years and this cooperation has been rewarded with the GIS contract to manage the airside lounge at the airport, as part of SACBO’s expansion plan of Milan Bergamo Airport,” said Guclu Batkin, CEO, TAV. “Our ‘HelloSky’ lounge is the outcome of an amazing partnership and I thank SACBO’s management for the continued great support, trust and positive spirit during this development process. We strongly believe that this relationship will keep evolving and more opportunities will rise from it.”
Batkin added that “Post-pandemic we expect airport lounges to be seen as exclusive zones of the airport with the utmost hygiene and health considerations taken into account, therefore, we have created a comfortable safe oasis for our guests at Milano Bergamo.”
With the airport continuing to see an increase in passenger traffic following the pandemic, Milan Bergamo has also welcomed the return of Air Arabia Maroc with its six-times weekly service to Casablanca, following the long-awaited lift of the travel ban to Morocco. The low-cost Moroccan airline will offer more than 1,000 weekly seats to the economic and business centre of the North African country using its fleet of A320s.
Air Arabia Egypt has also resumed weekly links to the popular holiday resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, as well as increasing connections to Cairo, while Albawings re-opened flights to Tirana, which will see a frequency increase to four-times weekly at the end of July.
Meanwhile, easyJet, which recently joined Milan Bergamo’s airline rollcall has already secured further new routes with three-times weekly flights to Malaga set to launch on 19 July. And Ryanair, which is serving various domestic links throughout Italy, has also confirmed two new operations from August with a year-round service to the Sicilian town of Comiso, and summer seasonal flights to Preveza in Greece.
