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That's bad news! Do you think it's just for the slow winter months?

Russ

It looks that way, because Bari and Brindisi daily service has stop also.
Hey Ho can always fly to Ancona, or Luton to Rome then Rome to Lanciano by coach makes it a long day but if worth it for the views

can you tell me please the months when the flights to bari and brindisi are not in service.also,do you know if ryanair stopped flights to puglia during previous years or is this the first year.thankyou

According to Ryan Air's winter schedules 2005-6 there are flights to these destinations. Have they actually announced that they are about to stop flying to these places?

Where did you see or read this because I've just read the latest news on their web site and they actually say they are flying to favorite places such as Bari. I'd be interested to know.

Thanks Paula

no they are just cutting back the schedule for the winter you can still get the flights but not on a daily basis, the best thing to do is e mail ryan air or check the web site wwwryanair.com

The winter flights to Pescara and Brindisi are on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Flights to Bari will be Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday departing at 17:20 and returning 21:35.

Try this flightchecker:

[url]http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/flightchecker[/url]

Sonia.

You nearly gave me a heart attack.
Going to sign the compromesso in 2 weeks time, half hour from Pescara, lot farther from Rome.

... as biased as i am again.. but really on a practical note... small airports and their flights are always at the risk of a whim of whatever airline.... most of these airports manage to give grants to the low cost airlines for providing a service which is in general how we all manage to get these cheaper flights... two problems... if the regional or eu grant aid is removed the airline will not fly to that airport... with al italia making such a fuss about competition it could lead to a few investigations and maybe some of these grants might well disappear

so it is a thing to keep in mind

despite some people saying rome is much further away we live in the teramo region of abruzzo... for us pescara is 60 mins and rome 90 mins ... not really much difference... and say if you do not happen to live near stanstead i believe rome ciampino offers a very good alternative to fly into as many regional airports and several of the budget airlines use that airport.... so say if there was a flight from the west of england to rome you would save yourself something like 3 hrs jorney time on the whole trip... and i would also think it is highly unlikely that all the flights into rome will ever stop

Just for the info, you can fly return from Bristol to Rome with Easyjet in October for less than £70

Just to keep everyone aware, the much posted website [url]www.SkyScanner.net[/url] allows a simple search of all budget airlines by destination or by departure point.

Where are you all getting this info from? Ryanair's website says that the schedule period 30th October to 25th March 2006 is not uploaded yet (not due till tomorrow).

I have flown to Pescara regularly over the last year, and each flight, even in January, has been nearly full.

It would be a major disaster for the area if all this is true!

[QUOTE=tuscanhills]Just to keep everyone aware, the much posted website [url]www.SkyScanner.net[/url] allows a simple search of all budget airlines by destination or by departure point.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.whichbudget.com/[/url] shows which budget airlines fly where.

You can search by departure or destination airports

[QUOTE=Wishful Thinker]Where are you all getting this info from? Ryanair's website says that the schedule period 30th October to 25th March 2006 is not uploaded yet (not due till tomorrow).

I have flown to Pescara regularly over the last year, and each flight, even in January, has been nearly full.

It would be a major disaster for the area if all this is true![/QUOTE]

I was just looking to book some flights for Feb and March and notice that the daily service had stop.

I telephoned today and the operative confirmed that there are only going to be flights on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in the winter. This is a big blow for me, as my "holiday" home is near to Pescara (30 mins - and no I don't think driving for an hour and a half after getting off a plane acceptable for a holiday) and winter is when I am MOST likely to go, as the one thing that I hate about the late autumn/early winter in England is the complete lack of sunshine/blue skies, which one gets in Abruzzo (at least Pescara province) at that time of year.
So yes, I think that it will be a disaster for an area that desperately needs people like me to bring in tourism/cash. If I was just starting the process of buying abroad, armed with this information about the flights, I would probably not consider Abruzzo.
Mr. O'Leary's attitude to his customers and the service that he provides is legendary, but I really did not think that it would come to this, as of all the Ryanair detinations in "unknown" places, Pescara airport is very user friendly, and I really believed that it could only go from strength to strength. And as I said, the flights have always be nearly full, even in the depths of winter.

abruzzo has gone into deep mourning over the latest news about ryan air... the hospitals have all been warned to be on standby as they expect many people already trying to cope with the heatwave to find this latest shocking piece of news about the impending disaster that most probably no more uk tourists will be bringing their money here to be the one last straw that many will not be able to cope with.... and that mass suicide attempts may well erupt .... indeed there may well be no one left alive in abruzzo for any uk citizen to spend their money with ... said the parliamentary representative for abruzzo.... burlusconi has proposed to get the japanese here to put in the bullet train frome rome airport to pescaraairport ... cutting the journey time between these two major cities to minus ten minutes... and is hoping this news may well have a mitigating effect on the desperate plight of the population.... the UN have been quoted as saying that the loss of these incomers to abruzzo would be another major disaster and is offering to send troops to stanstead with military flights available for all on days that ryan air do not fly... however due to runway considerations and costs of fuel all landings at the italian end will be by parachute.... they are offering a special service to those willing to pay an extra 10 cents of home drops... saving even the need to drive from the airport to your house... what more can we do said the UN spokeperson.... Will ... maybe you can offer some further help...

it seems to me that it is still possible to get to abruzzo,for example via rome.pity the folk who have bought in puglia ,without bari and brindisi the journey is a hard slog and surely not worth it for short trips.

Ignoring my original 'knee-jerk' reaction, one of my reasons (main reason was beauty, secondary value for money) for buying in Abruzzo was the proximity to Rome. There is always talk of some of the smaller airports (in Italy, France etc) being closed to budget airlines (subsidies etc), I can't see Rome, Milan, Naples & others stopping flights to the UK. I think a bigger problem would be if the budget airlines cease to exist. As I said before you can fly return from Bristol to Rome for less than £70 at the moment, surely this also applies to other regional airports around the UK.
For me 90 mins from Rome as opposed to up to 3 hrs to Stansted would not be too much of a problem.
Hopefully Abruzzo will be my permanent home so only being able to fly to the UK from Pescara every other day during the winter would not cause me so much of a problem as it may to others.
Apologies for a return to a more mundane comment than those previous well thought out replies.
ps. Will the bullet train stop at Chieti?

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[QUOTE=mariner]According to Ryan Air's winter schedules 2005-6 there are flights to these destinations. Have they actually announced that they are about to stop flying to these places?[/QUOTE]
Ryanair will not cease to fly to those destinations. There will still be three flights a week into Pescara for the winter.

[QUOTE=adriatica]despite some people saying rome is much further away we live in the teramo region of abruzzo... for us pescara is 60 mins and rome 90 mins ... [/QUOTE]

Coo, you must drive slow, we manage Mosciano to Pescara in about 30 minutes Rome in an hour. I didn't realise you were so close to us or I would have come over last week and waved at you.

never mind the problems with Ryan Air operating a reduced schedule to Pescara, spare a thought for the poor soles (me) who have to travel to Stanstead every Saturday morning from Manchester, to take a flight to Ancona, then back to England on Monday afternoon and the hard slog up the A14.
I want just ONE flight per week from Manchester or Liverpool to Ancona.
How many of us actually make the travel from the NORTH to Stanstead to take a flight to Ancona or Pescara, maybe it would be worth us all chipping in and buying an old Comet 4C (there goes my age) and making daily flights to airports along the Adriatic, a bit like a taxi service..... bags being the captain

[QUOTE=Rosie]never mind the problems with Ryan Air operating a reduced schedule to Pescara, spare a thought for the poor soles (me) who have to travel to Stanstead every Saturday morning from Manchester, to take a flight to Ancona, then back to England on Monday afternoon and the hard slog up the A14.
I want just ONE flight per week from Manchester or Liverpool to Ancona.
How many of us actually make the travel from the NORTH to Stanstead to take a flight to Ancona or Pescara, maybe it would be worth us all chipping in and buying an old Comet 4C (there goes my age) and making daily flights to airports along the Adriatic, a bit like a taxi service..... bags being the captain[/QUOTE]
I'm with you on that one!

Though I don't go to Italy as often as I'd like, it would be much easier if we had the benefit of low cost airlines flying from Manchester. Though Jet2 now offer good fares from Manchester to Pisa and Venice, there are loads of other places I'd like to see without having a long drive/rail journey/additional flight to get there.

I must admit that I feel quite smug when I'm getting off a plane at Manchester and people are complaining of their long journey home. I live 20 minutes away from Manchester Airport and am often home before some people hit the motorway. Oh, the airfield that was the original Manchester Airport is only about 5 minutes from home.

What's a Comet 4C?? I know someone who can fly helicopters...

I'm another in total agreement. We live in Leigh which is smack bang in the middle of Liverpool and Manchester and we are currently making the trip to Stanstead for our flights to Bari or Brindisi. My husband is going over in October a week earlier than myself and our children and I have found him a flight from Blackpool to Stanstead for the crazy price of 99p. Ok he'll be hanging out at Stanstead for approx 5 hours for his next flight, but he'd rather do that than me having to make the round trip, or a train journey, to drop him off.

Us northerners should bombard Ryanair daily with requests for flights from Liverpool or Blackpool. (I don't know if Ryanair currenly fly from Manchester).

As for them stopping flights, [B]I hope not[/B], not in the near or distant future. I've had some crazily cheap flights and non more crazy than the ones I've booked this afternoon for the kids half term holiday in Feb for [B]£2.00 return [/B] (£26 if you add the tax).

I'm off now to sent the first of my daily mail messages to Ryanair.

Paula

This cut in service to Pescara by Ryanair sounds rather strange to me. I too have always found these flights to be fairly full since I started using the route in March. I have also been told by a friend who has business dealings with the Managing Director (Or some senior fella) at the airport that they have rather large expansion programs like those of Ancona and will be looking for another carrier to operate between the airport and another in the UK. I'm personally hoping for Gatwick but it could well be Manchester if you're lucky ROSIE!

[QUOTE=neal hampson]Us northerners should bombard Ryanair daily with requests for flights from Liverpool or Blackpool. (I don't know if Ryanair currenly fly from Manchester).
Paula[/QUOTE]
They do - but only to Dublin, and their only ½ûÂþÌìÌà route from Dublin is Rome.

Back to the subject of Ryanair. I was just wondering how long it would take to drive from Rome to the Ostuni are in Puglia.

We currently make the 3 - 4 hour drive from the Manchester area to Stanstead and leave the car on one of the long term parking facilities and fly to Brindisi. At Brindisi we then hire a car for the length of our stay.

I thought has just crossed my mind. We could get a lift to Liverpool Airport as we live quite close, fly to Rome, collect a hire car there and drive down to Ostuni, thus cutting out the long term parking costs. How long would the drive from Rome to Ostuni take me and is it worth it. Just a thought at the moment.

Thanks Paula

looking through all the replys it would seem that the daily flights to airports on the adriatic side of Italy, all fly from Southern airports. Why dont any of the cheap airlines fly from the North ie Liverpool, Blackpool to this side of Italy, after all most of the growth in housing which is affordable to most of the masses like us is on this side. Ryanair's flights in July and August go through the roof and for this period of 8 weeks it is cheaper for me to fly via Lufthansa to Munich and then to Ancona on Air Dolimitti. My flight leaves at 5.15 tonight and arrives in Ancona for 10.30, the cost being £210.00 When you take of the fuel charges to Stanstead, and the reduction in one nights hotel, this makes a cheap flight at arund £130.00. Ryanairs average flight during July and August for weekend travel is around £200.00
It may be worth a throught for people who travel during this period, especially if you can get a lift to Manchester which would save the car park fees.
One note of caution, the change over at Munich is 35 mins and you need to run like billy-oh, but it all adds to the fun
Maybe one day Ryanair will consider Liverpool or Manchester to, ANYWHERE on the adriatic side of Italy ie Ancona, Pescara etc

ciao
that is to say doncaster's new airport which i believe ryan air a re going to use as the northern hub for its flights, it is beter for people who are travelling from farther north than manchester or blackpool and is more central for people travelling from the east midlands, from a purely selfish point of view only an hour away from my house

Ryanair maybe cheap off season, but at this time of year it is very expensive. You can fly to Puglia from Manchester by Alitalia via Milan. In August you can find flights to BAri at £148 return when Ryanair's equivalent is about £260. The down side is that it takes longer and some of the connections require you to change airports at Milan. The upside for those of us who live in the North is that you do not have the long slog down to Stansted
Brian

Those in the north can also go from newcastle to Rome with Easyjet which is reasonably priced. Ryanair also go to Rome from Teeside. From there it's probably about 3-4 hours drive.

.......or Newcastle to Ancona. That would be bliss.