Daily
Telegraph Mentor, Frances
Petroni, supports online petition for more UK
flights to Calabria in Southern
Italy.
Property
buyers investing in Calabria in the toe of
southern Italy are calling
on the UK’s
airlines to launch more convenient routes into the increasingly popular region via
an online Petition...
Sponsored
by local property specialists, InCalabria Ltd, the I-Petition has been launched
to meet the ‘unprecedented’ level of demand the company has experienced for details
about alternative flights and routes in to the area’s main airports at Lamezia
Terme and Reggio di Calabria.
Frances
Petroni, the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Mentor’ for
Southern Italy has also agreed to support InCalabria’s online petition to bring
more airlines to southern Italy.
Frances
commented: "I will CERTAINLY sign
your petition and I know some other people who will do the same. I will spread
the word. It is a real problem having so few choices of flights. It would be
great to have more.”
The I-Petition,
entitled ‘ChoicetoLamezia’ calls on the UK
airlines to launch flights from the Midlands, North of England and Ireland to
Lamezia Terme airport as thousands of people are currently unable to secure
convenient flights from these areas.
This comes
at a time when an industry study has claimed air passengers based outside
south-east England are
avoiding London's
congested airports by making greater use of regional airports instead.
The Civil
Aviation Authority (CAA) said growth at Britain's regional airports has
outstripped Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted since the start of the decade.
Passenger numbers at smaller airports grew 7% per year between 2000 and 2006,
according to the industry regulator, while the capital's flight hubs have
averaged 3%. Annual passengers at the UK's
regional airports now exceed 100 million, nearly triple the total in 1990.
"Regional airports have put themselves firmly on the map as gateways for
travel to and from the regions they serve," said Harry Bush, director of
economic regulation at the CAA. The fastest growing regional airport in Britain is Bristol,
followed by Liverpool, East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, Prestwick and Southampton
.
Dennis
Onstenk, Director of InCalabria Ltd concludes, ‘We are confident that
accessibility to Calabria will improve, just
as it has done with other southern Italian regions like Apulia and Sicily. With this
Petition, however, we hope to kick-start that process sooner rather than later
- for everyone’s benefit.’
The Petition for more
flights to Calabria
can be signed at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Choicetolamezia
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