Flights are expensive again this year for the Easter holidays, with the minimum prices of tickets from north to south Italy which, if purchased today, on some routes reach over 400 euros for a return trip. This was reported by Assoutenti, who carried out a monitoring of air fares last Thursday.
«Despite Easter still being 20 days away, flight prices are already very high to the point that leaving on Friday 3 April and returning on Tuesday 7 April, the minimum spend starts at 418 euros for the Genoa-Catania route, 343 euros to go from Milan to Crotone, 324 euros from Rome to Reggio Calabria (308 euros if you leave from Milan). – explains Assoutenti – You need more than 320 euros to fly on the same dates to Catania starting from Turin, Florence and Ancona. Among the highest prices are also the Naples-Olbia route (310 euros), Verona-Catania (297 euros), Milan-Brindisi (296 euros), Milan-Catania (290 euros), Verona-Palermo (282 euros), Bologna-Reggio Calabria (281 euros)”. Prices that do not include additional services such as hand luggage or choice of seat, etc.
Things aren’t any better on the train front
Things are no better on the train front: «a one-way trip (April 3) on a high-speed train, buying it today, costs at least 185 euros to go with Italo from Turin to Reggio Calabria, 175 euros starting from Milan. With Trenitalia it takes 120 euros from Milan to Lecce, 116 euros from Turin to Bari, 96 euros from Venice to Lecce, 92 euros from Genoa to Salerno”, notes Assoutenti.
The Iranian crisis and the risk of further price increases
«These are tariffs destined to rise further in the coming days as a result of the greater demand from citizens who want to return home during the holidays, but another threat also looms over Italian travel and travel by air: the increases in fuel prices and the losses suffered by airlines in recent days due to the closure of airspace risk being soon transferred to the tariffs charged to consumers, with a new wave of increases in ticket prices for all destinations», warns President Gabriele Melluso.