Milan Bergamo Airport continues to renew flights to many widespread locations whereas additionally including quite a few new routes to its rising community to fulfill the demand from vacationers. Although the worldwide pandemic has precipitated a worldwide discount in passenger numbers, the Italian airport has begun to see a constructive development within the return of its common schedule whereas additionally celebrating the announcement of a number of new hyperlinks from the Lombardy gateway.
Witnessing a big improvement for Milan Bergamo, the airport has confirmed Blue Panorama will launch a twice-weekly operation to Dakar from 23 October 2020. Already set to extend to a few instances weekly from mid-December, the hyperlink to Senegal’s capital metropolis will change into Milan Bergamo’s longest route and first vacation spot in West Africa – boosting the airport’s rising vary of African routes as the newest flights be part of these to Morocco and Egypt.
Commenting on the brand new service, Giacomo Cattaneo, Director of Industrial Aviation, SACBO says: “Final 12 months there have been greater than 120,000 direct and oblique passengers between the Milan market and Dakar, so we’re extraordinarily completely happy Blue Panorama have realised the numerous demand available in the market. The world across the gorgeous metropolis of Bergamo has one of many largest Senegalese communities in Italy and, with the airline being lately awarded the site visitors rights to serve Senegal from the Italian CAA, we look ahead to working with them throughout what is going to little question be a profitable future.”
As well as, Milan Bergamo will launch new flights to Saint Petersburg from 15 Octoberber. Recognising a good-sized Milan market of near 135,000 direct and oblique passengers final 12 months, Wizz Air will initally start a 4 instances weekly service – rising to every day in December – to Lombardy’s second Russian vacation spot, becoming a member of Pobeda’s hyperlink to Vnukovo.
With a big and rising vary of airways – more and more seeing extra full-service carriers – Milan Bergamo welcomed its newest new service final month as Air Albania joined the airport’s roll name. Launching its 4 instances weekly service to Tirana, the flag service joins Blue Panorama and Wizz Air on the favored hyperlink to the Albanian capital metropolis.
Whereas Air Arabia Maroc restarted hyperlinks to Casablanca in mid-July – one of many particularly designated airways permitted to fly by the Moroccan Authorities – its sister airline, Air Arabia Egypt, added Borg El Arab, within the Mediterranean metropolis of Alexandria, to its community from the Lombardy area having additionally restarted companies to Cairo final month.
Including to the continued resumption of Milan Bergamo’s schedule, Pegasus Airways started to as soon as once more serve Sahiba Gökçen this month – the Turkish airline having handed 200,000 passengers on this city-pair final 12 months – whereas, Albastar has reinstated important weekend connections to its broad community in Southern Italy.
“It’s rewarding to see that, whereas it’s been a troublesome 12 months for all inside aviation, we proceed to make sure our efforts are directed to offering the most effective community Milan Bergamo can provide its prospects,” provides Cattaneo. “However the pandemic, we’re additionally progressing our infrastructure work. Having accomplished the extra-Schengen departures space, we are actually making ready the brand-new extra-Schengen arrivals space which is anticipated to be prepared earlier than the tip of September. To make sure we meet the calls for of capability, in addition to conserving all our passengers protected, we’ve additionally begun the extension of the Schengen departures and arrivals space that are anticipated to be completed S21 in time for the rescheduled World Routes occasion which can happen in Milan.”
