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Cagliari Airport Readies for Record Summer


The Cagliari Airport in Sardinia, Italy, has projected a record summer with a network of 92 direct routes.

There will be 41 domestic connections, 50 international, and one intercontinental. 23 airlines will operate from the Sardinian airport to 70 destinations for 19 connected countries.

Among the new features, the connection to Dubai with 3 direct flights a week stands out – the first scheduled intercontinental connection in Sardinia – and to Athens and Gothenburg.

Overall, there will be 4,200,000 seats on sale, of which 1,300,000 are on international destinations. The main new routes for summer 2023 are Athens, operated with 2 flights a week by Volotea; Barcelona, 3 flights a week from Volotea; Brindisi, 2 flights a week from Volotea; Dubai, operated with 3 flights a week by flydubai; Florence, 4 flights a week from Volotea; Genoa, 2 flights a week by Ryanair; Gothenburg, 2 flights a week by Ryanair; Innsbruck, 1 flight a week by Marathon Airlines; Lyon, France, operated with 2 flights a week by easyJet.

Flydubai in June with 3 weekly flights to Dubai, will remain active until the end of September.

Ryanair increases its capacity in Cagliari by 10% compared to summer 22 and by 70% compared to the pre-COVID period. Volotea merges its presence at the airport by proposing 7 international destinations with a network that in summer 2023 includes, besides the new Athens and Barcelona, also Bilbao, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, and Toulouse.

EasyJet will operate 5 international connections confirming flights to Basel, Geneva, London Gatwick, Paris Orly and Lyon. Eurowings will fly to 3 German destinations: Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart.

Confirmations also for Lufthansa which will connect Cagliari with Frankfurt and Munich. Air France will fly 9 times a week to Paris Charles De Gaulle.

Also on Paris, Transavia France will double the frequency of its flights to the French airport of Orly, operating 4 flights a week; Klm confirms flights to Amsterdam with daily frequencies. British Airways will serve London Gatwick Airport with incremental frequencies up to a daily flight. On the charter side, People’s Viennaline will operate its traditional Saturday flights to the Swiss airport of Altenrhein. The Aeroitalia carrier will operate from Innsbruck on a weekly basis, every Sunday.





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