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The new covered kerbside drop-off area is now fully operational at the airport, thus allowing more comfort for those all passengers arriving by car - especially by taxi - in all-weather conditions. The new drop-off zone is located outside the departures area to the east of the terminal and is covered by a modern steel-and-glass structure 20 metres long and 6 metres wide.

On Sunday 25th March, the new Summer 2012 schedule will start validity also at Trieste Airport.

While Alitalia will operate direct flights to  Catania, Olbia and Lamezia, that will join the current detinations of Rome, Milan, Naples and Genoa, Lufthansa will confirm its 4-daily frequencies to Munich.

Ryanair will offer nine low-cost destinations: the new services to Barcelona and Bari will add up to the flights for Birmingham, Brussels, Cagliari, Düsseldorf, London, Trapani and Valencia.

Belleair will operate up to four weekly low-cost services to Tirana and the new low-cost carrier Volotea will open - from the 1st of June - direct flights to Palermo, in Sicily. 

On the outgoing charter side, the tour operator Julia Viaggi will serve the Greek islands of Kos and Samos and - new for 2012 - Kefallinia from June to September. From these locations it will be possible to reach also the minor islands of Itaca, Fourni, Ikaria and Patmos.

From 1st March, new services for a more user-friendly travel experience are available at Trieste airport.All Lufthansa passengers – as it has already been happening for those who fly with Alitalia and Ryanair – can now use the Web check-in service. At the same time, for Lufthansa and Alitalia travellers also the new Mobile check-in service is now available at the airport.

From 1st June 2012, the new low-cost airline Volotea will fly scheduled services between Trieste and Palermo, in Sicily. Flights will operate on Monadys and Fridays with 125-seat Boeing B717 jets. 

Tickets can be already booked and purchased on the carrier's website  www.volotea.com, with all-inclusive tariffs from 19 euro oneway.

At a press conference with the regional tourist board Turismo FVG held at the travel and tourism fair BIT in Milan, Trieste Airport presented its Summer 2012 network: 25 destinations served by more than 130 weekly frequencies.

New scheduled flights to Bari and Barcellona will be operated by Ryanair from the end of March, adding up two more destinations to the scheduled network served by Ryanair (to London, Brussels, Valencia, Düsseldorf, Birmingham, Cagliari and Trapani), Alitalia (to Rome, Milan Linate, Genoa, Naples, Catania, Olbia and Lamezia Terme),  Lufthansa (to Munich) and Belleair (to Tirana).

Weekly incoming charter flights from Moscow and Paris will be confirmed also for next Summer, will new weekly services from Denmark (Odense e Billund) will be operated. Outgoing traffic, from June, will be served by Julia Viaggi with the direct flights to the Greek islands of Kos and Samos and the new weekly service to Kefallinia.

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 Alitalia 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.