Great news for all travellers choosing Amalfi Coast as their predilect holiday destination for the summer of 2024. Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport plans to open this summer, bringing easier tourist access to the outstanding Italian destination.
Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport: the opening and the boosting of Amalfi Coast tourism
It was recently announced that the Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport plans to open in July of this summer. The last commercial flights were operated in 2016. The summer of 2024 aims to bring the beloved Airport back to employ commercial flights, allowing all travellers a comfortable mode to explore this incredible destination.
Amalfi Coast is a special tourist destination with views of the blue sea, beautiful cliffs, and the smell of lemons in the trees, located on the coastline in southern Italy and with 5 million tourists each year. Currently, the simplest way to travel to the breathtaking Amalfi Coast is by taking a flight to Naples International Airport and using transport (bus and train) or, alternatively, travel by car, which is about 62.3 km in distance. The opening of Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport will facilitate travellers’ lives according to the current travel distance.
Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport is 45 kilometres southeast of Amalfi city and 21 kilometres from Salerno – founded almost 100 years ago and making it used as a flying school, military, and private airport; in 2007, it started operating several commercial flights but ended up shutting them completely in 2016. With plans to build a new terminal by 2027 and complete airport development by 2043, Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport expects to serve six million passengers annually in the future.
With the recent announcement of Spanish airline Volotea starting to operate flights this summer to destinations in Catania, Verona, and Cagliari in Italy, the Spanish airline Volotea has significantly grown in routes to Italy throughout the years; in 2021, Travel Radar interviewed Valeria Rebasti, Volotea’s Country Manager for Italy and Southeastern Europe about the Italian routes. Furthermore, Volotea added for this summer of 2024 the route to Nantes in France. The plans for Salerno Costa d’Amalfi Airport to reach 6 million passengers annually take the first step to fulfil.
