In the first five months of the year almost 85,000 passengers +35% compared to the same period in 2023.

Rimini, 6th June 2024 - AIRiminum 2014, the management company of Rimini and San Marino International Airport, announces that as of 31 May, the increase in commercial passengers recorded in the first 5 months of 2024 compared to 2023 is approximately +35% and +3% compared to the same period in 2019.

Total passengers are more than 84 thousand with an overall load factor (LF) since the beginning of the year of 81%.

Cagliari (also operating in the winter season) is the ‘top destination’ with 16,474 passengers followed by Palermo (11,523 passengers) and Budapest (9,824 passengers).

Ryanair accounts for about 69% of commercial traffic while Wizzair about 29%.

Foreign traffic is about 66% (first 4 foreign markets: Albania with 29 %, Hungary with 12%, Lithuania with 10% and Czech Republic with 7%), while traffic from Italy accounts for about 34%.

Passengers in May amounted to more than 32,000 with an increase of +58% compared to May 2023 and the 102 flights of the month flew with a fill rate of 84%. Palermo was the top domestic destination with 6,148 passengers and Kaunas the top foreign destination with 5,088 passengers, which is also the one with the highest fill rate of 94% (a complete table of data is attached).

“The passenger figures for 2024, higher than those recorded in 2019, which saw a strong presence of Russian tourists, - comments AIRiminum 2014 CEO Leonardo Corbucci - represent the great attractiveness of this territory and the enormous as yet unexpressed potential of the Fellini in finally becoming an easy and direct means of accessibility for domestic and foreign tourists to Romagna and above all a means of convenient mobility for the citizens of Romagna. To pursue this goal,’ continues Leonardo Corbucci, ’the great strategic work that is being carried out together with the territory's other main stakeholders is important, precisely to attract new airlines capable of opening new routes to strategic destinations as early as 2025.”.