Abruzzo Airport is the fastest growing Italian airport. This is what emerges from Assaeroporti data on airports across the peninsula (with at least one million passengers) in terms of percentage increase in passenger traffic recorded in 2025. With +31.5 percent compared to 2024, the Abruzzo airport places itself on the podium, trailing the second growing airport, Trieste (+25.1%), by more than six percentage points. Followed by Genoa (+18.1%) and Lamezia Terme (+12.4%), Alghero (+9.9%), Bari (+9.7%), Florence (+9.4%), Verona (+8.7%) and Milan Malpensa (+8.6%).
A record-breaking 2025: one million exceeded
2025 therefore marked a double record for Abruzzo Airport, which not only exceeded one million one hundred thousand passengers for the first time in its history (with +300 thousand passengers compared to the previous year), but did so with dizzying growth. «This result, unthinkable until very recently, represents for us the confirmation of having taken the right trajectory, thanks to the synergistic work of all the components, internal and external to the Company» comments the president of Saga Giorgio Fraccastoro.
Future prospects: intercontinental flights and the return of Linate
«But the data is also the point from which to start again to do better and achieve the new objectives we have set for ourselves. First of all, the extended runway will become operational which will allow us to see the first direct intercontinental flight to the airport land and take off. Project we are working on, with discussions with new companies, with whom we are in constant contact also to secure a couple of iconic destinations. Then there is the imminent prospect of the restoration of flights to and from Milan Linate, with the tender notice likely to be published before the summer.»
Development of the Cargo and General Aviation sector
Furthermore, the cargo theme is another area to further enhance the operations of the Abruzzo airport. In this regard, a project to develop air freight transport has already been launched with Poste Cargo, to be built together with the entrepreneurial fabric of Abruzzo. And finally «we also have ample margin for growth with general aviation, to intercept the private traffic that passes through the Abruzzo routes. An enormous amount of work, to continue to face the great challenge of strengthening commercial traffic, which we are certain will also give us great satisfaction in 2026″, concludes Fraccastoro.