Those trying to book a flight have noticed this as someone starts receiving cancellation emails. With the winter timetable, eight Ryanair routes from Caselle will no longer be available on the Irish low-cost airline’s website. Flights to Billund, Krakow, Edinburgh, Malaga, Paris, Pescara, Prague and Stockholm have been canceled.
This is reported by the FlyTorino association, which was founded in 2007 to support the development of Turin Caselle Airport. “This is an unprecedented cut in the strategic routes for the arriving tourists, especially in our mountains: what happened to the co-marketing agreement with the local authorities that was supposed to support these routes in a tourist sense?”, yes, FlyTorino question .
That’s not all: “This winter break also coincides with the end of a summer that was already extremely stingy with connections – emphasizes the association -: compared to the summer of 2022 Caselle missed 5 connections with Greece, 3 Spanish islands, 2 connections with Romania, 2 with Morocco and another 2 with southern Italy, all for the benefit of Milan airports and Malpensa in particular. What is happening to our airport and what strategy does the territory want to implement to support it?”
The president of the association, Valentino Magazzù, suspects that “for these cuts we have to thank the government for its recent measures against low-cost airlines”. He is on holiday in Sicily and states that he flew with Ryanair from Caselle and “paid 196 euros for 5 people and two suitcases on board, with a reservation at the end of May”. In fact, he asks: “Are there the high tariffs reported by the government?” But it is primarily aimed at that Piedmont region: “What are you planning to do? What happened to the money promised by President Cirio for the Piedmontese ports?
Contacted on Wednesday afternoon, the airline’s Dublin headquarters neither confirmed nor denied. But if you search the Ryanair website for a date for a flight from Caselle to Paris (Beauvais), you have the proof. The last one is scheduled for November 4th. Otherwise you will have to wait until March 16th. Four month ban, at least for now. The same applies to the Ryanair flight from Turin to Pescara, which was renamed “Flight of the Fiat Managers” in view of Stellantis’ commitments in Val di Sangro. The last scheduled departure from Abruzzo Airport to Turin is on November 5th, but from March 15th it will be available again, with two flights per week instead of four.
According to the online information site “Il Centro”The airline is reportedly telling passengers that the flight has been canceled for commercial reasons. “Travellers from Turin send us screenshots of cancellations, no later than Wednesday August 30, for example on the route to Malaga and Krakow, which are among these eight routes,” FlyTorino adds.
In summary, According to the association, some do not return: “Anyone who had a reservation with us will also receive a message justifying the cancellation for commercial reasons.” This usually means that there are too few bookings or problems with the airports.” However, the answer can only come from Dublin : “But we don’t know the real reason, only Ryanair can say that.”