Volotea commences Corsican connections
Volotea starts flights between Brest Airport and Bastia Airport and Ajaccio Airport; Toulouse Airport and Bastia Airport; Nantes Airport and Palermo Airport.
Volotea starts flights between Brest Airport and Bastia Airport and Ajaccio Airport; Toulouse Airport and Bastia Airport; Nantes Airport and Palermo Airport.
Serving the capital of the French island of Corsica, Ajaccio Napolean Bonaparte Airport, is the largest of the four international airports on the Mediterranean island. While the airport is showing steady growth, its extreme seasonality represents an annual challenge to the management.
LCC Volotea starts flights from Bastia and Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica.
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Volotea adds three new routes to Palermo, two to Catania in Sicily; adds two new French domestic routes.
Volotea commences flights from Verona to Bari; adds services from its Nantes base to both Grenoble and Tenerife Sur.
Winter-only flights and no domestic services (until next week) Grenoble-Isère Airport is almost a unique type of airport in France, if not Europe. It also dominated by UK airlines rather than French ones, with flights from nine UK airports and four British carriers.
Volotea’s arrival to the Nantes Atlantique Airport in June 2012, helped boost the airport’s route network significantly, and the growth to-date this year is just about to hit 10%. anna.aero examines, how the airport’s business has changed in effect, and what new routes will be launching soon.
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Volotea now flies from Venice Marco Polo Airport in Italy to Nantes in France.
Volotea starts new routes from Bordeaux to Lille and Strasbourg; inaugurates flights from Nantes to Lille.