Up in the air . . .

JET2COM and Jet2holidays will base a further aircraft at Glasgow Airport and launch two new routes as part of the airline’s summer 2019 plans.

The announcement marks another hugely expanded summer programme from Jet2.com’s Glasgow base - the biggest in Scotland - and demonstrates the airline’s continued commitment to the airport.

As part of a busy summer 2019 schedule Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will introduce two weekly services to Kos and Naples, taking the airline’s total number of sun and city destinations from Glasgow to 33. The airline will also introduce an additional 90,000 seats across its Glasgow Airport-based destination network.

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Naples to Northern Ireland

TOURISM Ireland warmly welcomes the announcement by Jet2 of its new flight from Naples to Belfast International Airport. The new weekly service will commence in May 2018 and will provide a welcome boost for tourism from Italy to Northern Ireland.

Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “The announcement of the new Jet2 flight from Naples to Belfast is excellent news for #tourism to Northern Ireland in 2018 and will certainly expand travel options for holidaymakers from Italy wishing to visit #Belfast and Northern Ireland. "

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easyJet switches airport to drive growth in Italy

EASYJET is to expand its bases in Italy – at Milan Malpensa and Naples – and open a new one in Venice from April‎ next year. 

The carrier plans to support the expansion by re-deploying aircraft and crew from Rome Fiumicino, criticizing the airport’s high fees and poor passenger service. The airline’s base at Rome Fiumicino will shut next April due to a ‘worsening performance’, blamed on airport passenger charges which have doubled in three years.

‘In addition, Rome Fiumicino provides a poor passenger experience which has led to low levels of punctuality and customer satisfaction,’ easyJet said.

The airline still expects to fly around two million passengers to and from Rome in 2016, but without having crew and aircraft based there. Instead, the airline is to deploy four aircraft in Venice, creating 150 jobs, and add three to the 18 already based at Milan Malpensa, providing 100 extra jobs for pilots and cabin crew. Naples will get a fourth aircraft from April, creating 35 jobs.

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Picture Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58613084@N02/5857518179">Airbus A319-111 G-EZBZ EasyJet, Bristol - Lulsgate - UK, June 19 2011.</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(license)

Italy lights up for Xmas

 ITALIAN CITIES light up for the festive season, with Christmas markets combining Mediterranean flavours and German traditions.

Here are some of the best:

VERONA – The city hosts a Nuremberg Christmas market in the central Piazza dei Signori. The German–style market will have all the traditional huts serving specialities such as mulled wine, Stollen and Lebkuchen cakes, and bratwurst.

TRIESTE – In Trieste, you can feel the charm of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire empire in its Christmas market in Piazza Sant'Antonio and the surrounding streets. There’ll be Trieste food and wine, songs and music.

ROME – The Piazza Navona (Pictured above) is swamped by a bustling market, selling cribs, decorations and sweets.

VENICE – Christmas fairs in various piazzas. 

FLORENCE – Mercato Tedesco di Natale, Piazza Santa Croce. This market (pictured here) is inspired by the tradition of the German city of Heidelberg. Wooden huts and stalls selling Italian and German delicacies, decorations, and handicrafts.

NAPLES – Via S. Gregorio Armeno. The Christmas market in this narrow street is famous for its handcrafted nativity crib figurines, from the traditional to the most sophisticated, and for traditional Neopolitan food and cakes. 

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Picture Credit: From Top: 'Piazza Navona (Roma) - Mercato Natalizio 05' by Nicholas Gemini (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons; 'Piazza Santa Croce with german market' by Freepenguin (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons

Follow that sea taxi!

Jet Capsule taxis - Italy has ..........

...........A NEW breed of sea taxis can be seen working out of some of Italy’s west coast ports this month (August).

The 23ft Jet Capsule taxis – which can carry seven passengers – run from Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Naples, and Capri. 

One-way prices per journey range from £169 to £355.

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