05.04.23

LOAD FACTOR IS GROWING OVER THE EASTER WEEK AT MILAN BERGAMO AIRPORT

After having closed the month of March 2023 with 1,212,721 passengers overall, representing an increase of 18.9% over March 2019, Milan Bergamo Airport has begun to manage traffic for the Easter week, which, not counting the daily programming of scheduled flights in line with the weekly Summer 2023 calendar in force since Sunday 26 March, is seeing growing levels in load factor with regards to both last year and the pre-pandemic period. Forecasts for the week from Wednesday 5 to Tuesday 11 April predict more than 320 thousand passengers either departing or arriving. Compared to the 2019 Easter period, this marks a 15% increase, bearing in mind that four years ago, Easter 2019 fell on Sunday 21 April, and therefore right before the celebrations for 25 April (Italian Liberation Day), with just under 280 thousand passengers. For the 2023 Easter week, 138 of the 142 destinations in the summer schedule are available, with flights connecting 39 countries. Ryanair, with its most extensive summer schedule ever at Milan Bergamo Airport, is offering 108 routes. Two new routes for this year are to the United Arab Emirates, with Flydubai operating flights to and from Dubai International Airport (T3, from where ongoing Emirates flights also depart), and with Air Arabia flying to and from the airport of Sharjah.