NEWS

A 28-year-old woman from Duino (Trieste) boarding the Alitalia flight to Naples was the passenger number 850,000 in 2011 at Trieste. This marks a real record in the airport hiostory, whose last highest traffic peak was reached in 2008, with 783,000 travellers.

This event, that was celebrated at the check-in by the President of Trieste Airport, closed a very positive year, characterised by an average traffic growth by 18%, posting an increase of 130,000 passengers with respect to the previous year.

Barcelona and Bari: these are the two new destinations that Ryanair will open in March 2012 from Trieste Airport.  

Services to Barcelona (BCN) will start on 25 March and operate twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays; Services to Bari will start on 27 March and operate thrice a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and  Sundays.

With these two new destinations, during the next Summer Season, Ryanair will operate nine direct services out of Trieste, i.e. London, Birmingham, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Valencia, Barcelona, Trapani, Cagliari and Bari, at very competitive low fares.

On the 2nd of December 1961, a DC3 of Società Aerea Mediterranea (SAM) opened the regular commercial flights at Trieste airport. In fifty years of hostory, the airport has developed into a modern infrastructure fed by a number of domestic and international services.

On this occasion, the airport has been officially named after the explorer (with Friulian origins) Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà.

Departing passengers can now experience a new regional excellence corner at Trieste Airport, promoting the regional wines and the most advanced chair design by ASDI Sedia - Italian Chair District.

The "Wine & Design - regional excellence corner" is located in the departures area, after the security controls and will offer its visitors a winetasting experience as well as the possibility to purchase the wines on display.

The FVG region has presented the marketing plan set up with Alitalia for the promotion of the tourist offer aiming at developing incoming tourism through Aliatlia media services.

In terms of passenger share, Alitalia is the most important airline at Trieste, having carried some 363 thousand travellers in 2011 (57% of the airport traffic), posting a +21.4% trend in the first 10 months of the year.

Aliatlia's destinations currently include Rome Fiumicino (5 daily), Milan Linate (2 daily), Naples/Catania (daily) and Genoa (4 weekly), while also at Christams 2011 direct flight to Catania and Palermo will be offered.

The airport interchange station – called “Polo Intermodale” – due to be built at Trieste airport reached to its final pre-planning stage: in fact, all the subjects involved in this project signed today its final planning agreement.

Aeroporto FVG SpA – the airport managing company – the local and regional authorities, as well as RFI – the Italian Railways infrastructures operator – will thus build a multi-modal interchange that will greatly ease and improve airport accessibility.

It will be built on a 475.000-sqm area and will include a railway station on the Trieste-Venice railway line running just 250 metres in front of the existing air terminal, a new coach station and new parking areas, directly linked to the air terminal thus allowing a seamless interchange between surface transport modes and air services.

Trieste airport is now equipped with a new semi-automatic cardiac defibrillator, that will be available, in case of an emergency, to all those who have received special training in emergency life support. The machine is installed in the departures area, beyond the security controls.

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Trieste airport has its new prayer room, dedicated to St.Anne, and located on the frist floor of the passenger terminal: in this way all those who want to stop and pray can now find a dedicated quite and comfortable area. 

The co-operation between Trieste Airport and the Sicilian communities in the FVG region goes on, with the mission of further increasing and developing air services to and from Sicily: on the 19th of July, at the airport, a new meeting was held for presenting the interim results of a study on the Sicilian community resident in the FVG Region (...).

With the beginning, last Saturday, of the direct flights to Kos, Samos and Olbia, the Summer schedule at Trieste Airport is almost fully operational.

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Up to now, in 2011, 361,000 passengers have flown through Trieste Airport, recording a 27% growth with respect to the same period of 2010.

The President comments on the National Plan for Logistics 2011/2020.

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Today, Trieste Airport President (Mr. Sergio Dressi), together with the Regional Ministers of Finance (Ms. Sandra Savino) and Transport (Mr. Riccardo Riccardi), has presented the project of the airport modal interchange station that has recently received the go-haed by the EU and the European study project called "Adria-A".

During the Summer 2011, five incoming charter flights from Russia will land at Trieste Airport.

From the end of May till the end of September, Trieste will in fact host every week four flights from Moscow and every two weeks one flight from  Ekaterinburg.

These flights will be organised by the main Russian Tour Operators, offering vacation packages in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and its neighbouring areas.

The President comments on urban planning legislation in the FVG region and on its impact on airport development.

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This morning - 21 April 2011 - the 90-seat jet Canadair 900 of Alitalia took off with 70 passengers onboard to reach Catania, in an hour and a half, for the first direct flight between the two airports.

Flights to Catania will be operated twice a week, growing in the peak Summer months, up to four weekly services.

Ten years ago, on the  5th April 2001, Ryanair started flying at Trieste airport opening the London Stansted route. Today, the airline, that in ten years at Trieste has carried more than 1.2 Million passengers, offers direct flights to seven destinations, i.e. London, Birmingham, Brussels, Cagliari, Dusseldorf, Trapani and Valencia. 

Alitalia grows at Trieste also in Summer 2011: the carrier will operate new direct flights to Catania, Lamezia Terme and Olbia, with 90-seat Bombardier CRJ900 jets.

Flights to Catania will start on April 21st and will be operated twice a week, growing in the peak Summer months, up to four weekly services. Olbia (Sardinia) and Lamezia Terme (Calabria) will be operated twice a week (Saturdays and Sundays) from June 25th until September 11th the first, from July 2nd until  September 4th the latter.

The flights can be booked at any travel agency, online on www.alitalia.com, at the airport ticket office or calling Alitalia's call centre (+39-06-2222).

For the Summer season 2011, the tour operator Julia Viaggi will organise two charter services between Trieste and the Aegean islands of Kos and Samos.

Flights will be operated every Saturday, from 25 June until 10 September 2011 (last return date) by modern 87-seat jets Bombardier CRJ900 of Adria Airways.

The business airline MyJet has been operating new weekly flights (on Monadys)  to and from Genoa, with a 4-seat Cessna 510 Citation Mustang business-jet. This service, fully dedicated to businessmen, is sold online at a business-class fare (www.my-jet.net/scheduled_flights).

While service is always guaranteed - also with just one passenger booked - regular customers can purchase one-year carnets (10 return tickets with a 5% discount or 20 return tickets with a 10% discount).

For schedules, fares and detailed information, visit www.my-jet.net , call MyJet dialling +39-010-6575218 or write an email to commerciale@my-jet.net

In 2010, Trieste Airport, on the whole, recorded 727 thousand passengers. The main traffic component - commercial passengers - counted 721,063 transits, up 4,3% with respect of 2009. 

Scheduled traffic performed particularly well, posting a +7%: in this context, 2010 domestic scheduled traffic was up 14.5%, while low-cost traffic was up 37.9%.

These very good results were achieved notwithstanding the negative trend recorded at the beginning of the year, due to global recession and also to the cancellation of many flights during the volcanic ash cloud event, last April.

As a matter of fact, in the second part of 2010, traffic grew again, with an excellent trend especially in the last Quarter of the year, not only thanks to the opening of the flights to Milan Linate, Genoa and of the low-cost service to Valencia, but also to the very good performance of all the scheduled flights operating at the airport.

Paolo Stradi, the General Manager of Trieste Airport, has been awarded - first one in Italy - with the designation of International Airport Professional (IAP). This is the most relevant professional award by ACI (Airport Council International) and ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation).