(Finance) – Rome Fiumicino Airport has already exceeded pre-Covid levels and faces a rapidly developing future, with further growth forecasts to 2024. This is what was explained by Marco TronconeCEO of Rome airportsin an interview given to the magazine TTG Italy on the occasion of the international tourism fair underway in Rimini.
“In 2023, the demand for air travel is started very well and continued according to the best wishes even during the summer season”, explained Troncone. “Numbers in hand – continued Troncone -, the flows to and from Rome Fiumicino have largely exceeded pre-covid traffic volumes: taking into account the routes currently inhibited by the conflict, the growth compared to 2019 is currently 12%. But even considering the transit flows via Rome, which are growing following the development of the network of our hub carrier, we are still at numbers now in line with those of 2019, with peaks that in the summer exceeded 140 thousand passengers per day between arrivals and Departures”.
A market that has seen stand out, with the greatest recovery, North Americawith 34 direct flights per day, of which 11 for New York. Over the last month, it has the total recovery of long-haul traffic was completed of Rome Fiumicino, compared to the volumes managed in September 2019. “The recovery path is now complete. Trend supported by a net growth in North America (+16%) and Middle East (+9%)“, explained the CEO of Adr. Still in the long haul, Fiumicino in the first 3 winter months of 2024 “will see an increase in flights to North American destinations (USA, Canada and Mexico) of 50%”.
“In fact, the routes to San Francisco and Washington will remain operational, in addition to the growth, compared to 2019, of Atlanta and New York and the resumption of the connection with Mexico City. Furthermore, for the first time, we will see the maintenance of operations on Canada for
the entire winter season, usually subject to operational interruption in so-called ‘deep winter’ periodat the end of January-February”, concluded Troncone.