After a three-year record-breaking interval by way of new routes improvement, Rome FCO airport closed 2023 with 40.5 Mln pax, recovering 100% of pre-pandemic quantity as of October, with a rising pattern via the final a part of the yr (+6% December 2023 vs 2019).
Greater than 50 new routes launched (together with 17 new locations!), 7 new entrant airways, greater than 200 locations to 70 nations thus connecting all of the world’s continents to Rome with an outlook for 2024 persevering with to be optimistic.
The yr kicks off with the start-up of two new carriers to FCO in March, Biman Bangladesh to Dhaka and Uzbekistan Airways to Tashkent. Summer season 2024 will see Volotea’s new flight to Brest, Eurowings to Hannover and Nuremberg, and Skyapls to Mostar. In June SunExpress will activate the brand new path to Izmir and ITA Airways to Accra, adopted by Dakar in July; October would be the month of Air Mauritius making its debut in Rome with the brand new flight to the Mauritian capital.
Not solely new locations: in Summer season 24, there is a notable surge in long-haul flights to North America with as much as 39 departures/day (+31% vs. Sum19), pushed by US carriers (as much as 27 departures/day, +61% vs. peak Sum19). FCO would be the solely airport within the European continent to supply American Airways top notch! Once more, ITA Airways introduces new routes to Chicago and Toronto, whereas United Airways expands with a second every day to Washington.</p>
One of the noteworthy tendencies is the sturdy deseasonalization, matter very pricey to the trade In February 2024 there have been over 70 weekly frequencies to North America, nearly double vs February 2019 (practically 40 weekly frequencies).
In Canada, there’s a considerable improve of as much as 32% in weekly flights in the course of the peak, because of Air Canada, Westjet and ITA Airways (new every day to Toronto).
China will see a rise vs 2019 because of the return of 6 of the main Chinese language carriers working in 2019 to 9 locations.
ITA Airways is launching new companies to Kuwait, Jeddah and Riyadh, on prime of the capability development to Center East.
brief/medium haul, Wizz Air is ready to increase its operations in 2024, with 13 based mostly plane (+2 vs. 2023) launching a number of new routes, whereas Ryanair may have 11 based mostly plane (+2 vs. 2023).
The FCO path to excellence doesn’t cease, neither on the subject of aviation improvement, nor to high quality as not too long ago acknowledged by ACI World, that awarded FCO because the Greatest Airport in Europe for high quality companies to passengers for the 7th time in a row, along with the 5-Star Skytrax rated in 2023.
Lastly, 2025 would be the yr of Jubilee in Rome. That is a very powerful and largest catholic occasion, occurring each 25 years. Town of Rome will anticipate over 30 million pilgrims coming to have a good time the Holy 12 months, providing big site visitors alternatives for airways from all around the world.
