The low cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air are warming up their engines for 2024 and investing in Rome by launching new routes to and from the city available in the coming months. For the summer of 2024, Ryanair is in fact proposing 7 new destinations: from Fiumicino airport it will be possible to reach Dubrovnik, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Malta and Paris, while from Ciampino it will be possible to travel to Gdansk and Riga. In total, the routes offered by Ryanair to Roman citizens and visitors will thus become 82: the company forecasts that traffic in Rome will grow by 15% to reach over 11 million passengers a year.
Wizz Air is also aiming to further strengthen its position in the city and has announced the deployment of three new Airbus A321neo aircraft in its fleet and the launch of additional routes from Rome Fiumicino: Berlin and Hamburg in Germany from the end of March, Alicante in Spain from April, and finally Copenhagen. Also the lines already active for some time will be upgraded with more flights available: 18 flights a week will connect Rome with London Gatwick, for example, while 17 flights a week will take off to Madrid and Barcelona. The opening of Wizz Air’s first pilot training center on Italian territory is also planned for May, a short distance from Fiumicino Airport Terminal 1, with a total investment of over 38 million euros.