Nessuno si è accorto che stanno ristrutturando la torre?
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Da mo' che hanno iniziato è chiusa tutta la parte sottostante, deviando le navette per i Crew fino davanti al varco. Sara così fino a giugno (in teoria)
Nessuno si è accorto che stanno ristrutturando la torre?
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Domanda: Elimineranno finalmente quei quadrati rosso-bianchi stile anni 70?
Basta "amarcord", guardiamo avanti: Roma, Alitalia, Italia..
Se vuoi guardare avanti allora devi buttarla giù e rifarne una nuova e moderna. Ma, se non erro, la torre assieme al T3 nucleo originario sono sottoposti al vincolo beni culturali....
sono sottoposti al vincolo beni culturali....
Quella ciofeca di torre?!
Quella ciofeca di torre?!
I beni culturali e le belle arti andrebbero vietati per decreto.
anna.aero was invited to Rome last week, as Aeroporti di Roma and Trenitalia – Italy’s state-owned main train operator – announced details of a high-speed rail link connecting Fiumicino Airport with Bologna, Florence and Venice. We took the opportunity to catch-up with Raffaele Pasquini, Head of Airport Marketing Development, Aeroporti di Roma, about continuing recent network development success, maintaining Vueling’s capacity at Fiumicino, connecting traffic, and increasing services to Asia.
anna.aero: After such a great 2014 in terms of network development, how do you follow it in 2015?
Raffaele Pasquini: This is true, in 2014 we had incredible numbers from a traffic point of view. The main goal has been to have Vueling establish a real hub at Fiumicino. In the last year, Vueling has based eight aircraft at Fiumicino and the very interesting story is that this year they will double that, so the number of based aircraft will increase and the frequencies in summer season 2015 will increase. As for long-haul, Emirates launched a third daily service at the end of 2014 and we will see the results of that this year. Then, I’m very positive in saying that in a very short time we will announce something new from China – it’s not yet official, but we are working strongly and I think that in less than one month we will close a deal with a new airline. So we are on the way to make 2015 even better.
aa: It looks like Vueling is losing the domestic battle against Ryanair. Are you managing to maintain the Spanish LCC’s capacity at the airport?
RP: Vueling has a lot of new routes out of Rome, so I don’t think its focus is changing. It is concentrating on Fiumicino as a hub, so while they may drop off some of the routes, for sure they will introduce a lot of new routes, so the balance is very, very positive.
aa: Do you ever envisage Ryanair feeding Alitalia’s hub… as MOL keeps insisting?
RP: Well, I won’t say this. Ryanair is doing a very good job and is even increasing the number of frequencies out of Fiumicino too. That doesn’t mean that it is decreasing Ciampino services. Ciampino is very full, so what they fly out of Fiumicino is something new, so we are positive about this.
aa: What white spots remain on your network map?
RP: We are working a lot on China. We are also looking a lot at Japan and Korea. We are looking for sure at South America, and last but not least, we are always looking at our mature markets of the US and Canada. So I don’t want to miss the point that the US is always our first long-haul market in terms of volume, but we have to do more and we are doing more – new flights that we have this summer for example are the United flights out of Chicago O’Hare to Rome, so this is more good news that we will have starting from May.
aa: Your peak traffic (in August) is almost double what your low season traffic is (in February)… does this create operational issues… and how are you intending to resolve this extreme seasonality?
RP: Yes, this is a good point and we are trying to work on this. It’s true that Rome is mainly a tourist destination and we have an interesting peak in the summer season. But I would say that we have a lot of global markets like the Far East and Asia, so we are always working to have year-round flights – it’s not always possible, but this is our aim.
aa: Has there been a blurring of the role of CIA in serving Rome with lots of LCC capacity arriving at FCO?
RP: No, no, no. We see Ciampino continuing as it is now in the future. Ciampino reached five million passengers last year. As you know, this is capped, so in our view Ryanair, which is the main operator there, will remain as it is now and for sure if airlines cannot operate at Ciampino they will start coming to Fiumicino. But we see Ciampino in the next few years remaining in this position in the Rome airport system.
aa: What share of FCO’s traffic is connecting? And how is this split between domestic-domestic, domestic-international and international-international? Which are the biggest regional connecting flows?
RP: We have 25% connecting traffic. FCO being the hub of Alitalia, and the SkyTeam alliance, means Alitalia by itself has 50% of traffic. It is normal that a lot of connecting traffic comes from both domestic and international. So Alitalia is doing the main role in feeding the airport. But it is not the only one. Even Vueling is feeding itself, so you can now fly Catania-Rome-Prague, for example, with Vueling. Very good news is that Vueling is starting interlining with other airlines. For example, you can now fly Catania-Rome-Doha, with Qatar Airways with the feeding of Vueling from Catania into Rome.
aa: Is there any focus on developing connecting traffic? What is the MCT (Minimum Connect Time)? What impact on Alitalia’s network might Etihad’s ownership have?
RP: We have a 45-minute Minimum Connect Time for domestic-domestic or international-international, and 60 minutes for domestic-international. It’s pretty good.
Frankly speaking, I think there will be no impact. Alitalia and Etihad are two important airlines, especially Alitalia because they represent 50% of our traffic. But I have to underline that we have more than 100 airlines operating at FCO, so it’s clear that Alitalia and Etihad will focus on the long-haul as they say in the newspapers. I think Alitalia will focus on its historical markets, which are North and South America, and Etihad will cover the eastern part of the world – the Far East in particular. I think there are some very huge markets that could be covered, even directly by Alitalia out of Rome – even if we are talking about the eastern side of the world.
Un mio amico mi ha chiesto le capacità massima dell'aeroporto di FCO che li serve per una ricerca. Voi conosce la massima capacità di passeggeri che possa gestire FCO? E le varie capienza dei suoi terminal e satelliti?
Grazie mille a tutti per le risposte.
Era meglio KloseVolevo solo segnalare che Dixons è....
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