They promised not to make mistakes and not to deceive travelers again. The Campania Region, the management company Gesac and Volotea have said that the "Salerno-Costa d'Amalfi" airport will be operating and it will never close again. All in the name of tourism in the South, environmental sustainability, new technologies. The previous openings and closures of Campania's second airport must remain a memory. In 2018, for example, only 141 people were lucky enough to set foot on the Pontecagnano track. The airport today is managed by the same company as Naples-Capodichino and its activity will have to ease the traffic of the city airport, which has been struggling for years.
The Coastal Heritage of Humanity
On the "Amalfi Coast" the expansion and renovation works will be completed in a few weeks, followed by the closure in 2019. Thousands of tourists heading to Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, Furore, have been penalized precisely because the airport was closed. Tourism in the locations overlooking the sea up to the gates of Salerno generates half of the movement in Campania. President Vincenzo De Luca there was no reason for its impracticability, despite having invested 150 million euros. Salerno is his city and the suffering of not seeing the airport active that has the name of Salerno in it worried him. Of course, public resources were also at stake whose scarcity - see the Cohesion Fund blocked by the Minister Raffaele Fitto– De Luca doesn't tell them.
In reality the project involves a investment of 257 million with works that will continue in the coming years. But operation is guaranteed from next summer.
The Amalfi coast remains an international destination and Volotea has announced four connections with Nantes, Catania, Cagliari, Verona. The first flight to Nantes will be on July 11th. It is taken for granted that the Spanish company will apply its own reduction limits emissions of 50% CO2 per passenger and kilometer by 2025. It is also in its commercial interest not to compromise an ecosystem appreciated in every part of the world.
