Which Italian airport is genuinely cheapest to fly from?
Flying one kilometre out of Bergamo (Milan) costs 5.2 cents. Out of Milan Linate it costs 19.5: 3.8 times as much. Look at the ticket price on its own and you will get this wrong, because an airport that only runs short hops shows up with a low average and looks like a bargain when it is nothing of the sort.
Average cost of flying one kilometre, airport by airport
| Airport | Cost of one km | Average ticket | Average flight length | Routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergamo (Milan) BGY | 5.2¢ | 68€ | 1,360 km | 94 |
| Treviso TSF | 5.3¢ | 56€ | 1,319 km | 27 |
| Rome Ciampino CIA | 6¢ | 67€ | 1,238 km | 21 |
| Lamezia SUF | 6.3¢ | 66€ | 1,100 km | 27 |
| Pisa PSA | 6.4¢ | 67€ | 1,173 km | 42 |
| Trieste TRS | 7.2¢ | 52€ | 946 km | 19 |
| Turin TRN | 8.4¢ | 74€ | 1,106 km | 56 |
| Cagliari CAG | 8.8¢ | 67€ | 791 km | 30 |
| Catania CTA | 8.8¢ | 113€ | 1,364 km | 66 |
| Milan Malpensa MXP | 8.8¢ | 213€ | 2,135 km | 81 |
| Palermo PMO | 9.9¢ | 87€ | 1,110 km | 56 |
| Bari BRI | 11.5¢ | 107€ | 957 km | 41 |
| Bologna BLQ | 12¢ | 113€ | 1,210 km | 66 |
| Venice VCE | 12¢ | 103€ | 1,182 km | 58 |
| Naples NAP | 12.1¢ | 127€ | 1,265 km | 53 |
| Verona VRN | 14.6¢ | 115€ | 1,067 km | 18 |
| Rome Fiumicino FCO | 14.8¢ | 260€ | 2,142 km | 86 |
| Milan Linate LIN | 19.5¢ | 149€ | 853 km | 31 |
How we worked it out
18 Italian airports, 64,141 prices. For each route we divided the average price by the kilometres in a straight line between the two airports. Then we averaged across that airport's routes, not across single prices, otherwise one heavily searched route would count more than the others. Left out of the sum: airports with fewer than 15 routes, and flights under 150 km, where the cost of one kilometre goes sky high and stops meaning anything.
Why it happens
What matters most is how many airlines fly from that airport. Where two or three low-cost carriers keep a base and spend the whole year taking passengers off each other, fares get pushed down and the kilometre ends up cheap, which is most of the story behind the top of this table. Where one airline flies almost alone, it costs far more. Same where people only travel in summer. The island airports sit at the bottom for that reason, not distance.
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