With the peak summer season looming, Milan Bergamo Airport is delivering healthy passenger growth rates.
Year-to-date figures at the Italian hub for Q1 2023 show 51.77% growth when compared to 2019. Sustaining this period of development, the Lombardy gateway will see a plethora of new routes during S23, connecting the airport to 142 destinations, supported by its 21 airline partners.
Nine new routes have already been launched in anticipation of the demand expected over summer expanding the airport’s international connections to Albania, Ireland and Romania.
Ryanair has also confirmed further growth at the airport adding six new services to Belfast, Brno, Cluj, Iasi, Lublin and Rijeka. The return of links to Dusseldorf Weeze and Zakynthos, and the continuation of winter services to Baden Baden and Lodz will see the popular Irish carrier offer more than 24,000 flights to 109 destinations during Bergamo’s summer schedule.
Meanwhile new Italian carrier Aeroitalia, which started services at Milan last November will expand its network with a particular foucs on leisure routes. The carrier will add services to: Albania (Tirana); Greece (Heraklion, Karpathos, Mykonos, Zakynthos); and Italy (Catania, Lampedusa, Palermo).
Norwegian will also join the airport’s carrier roll-call next month introducing a new low-cost service to Bergen from 30 April while also enhancing the airport’s existing link to Oslo with a twice-weekly service. Spanish carrier, Volotea, will also double its route offering from Milan Bergamo, filling the previously unserved destinations of Oviedo, Nantes and Lyon.
In addition to the new routes being launched flydubai’s recently launched operation to Dubai from Bergamo will increase from five times weekly to daily from 18 April while Air Arabia will add three weekly flights on its Sharjah service and easyJet has confirmed its Lisbon operation will be extended throughout the summer season.
Commenting on the new and additional services, Giacomo Cattaneo, Director of Commercial Aviation, SACBO, said: “Milan Bergamo Airport is unquestioningly signalling that it is on the up. Fuelled by new routes and new airlines, the upsurge of our growth is further enhanced by the solid foundation of our thriving existing services. We continue to work hard to present a wide range of destinations to our customers and preliminary research shows there is real demand for all our connections, setting the scene for a busy summer ahead.”
