Originally Posted by
Jamesair1
Does anyone fly to Rimini?.... used to be a very popular area for UK tourists....with loads of IT flights from UK provincial airports......seems to have fallen out of favour.
(apologies for being off-topic)
Rimini priced itself out of the UK IT business twenty years+ ago. None of the major tour operators were willing to pay the daft rates the hoteliers wanted and they still won't.
Indeed TUI and the remains of Thomas Cook don't offer it anywhere in comparable EU markets either.
Right now the place an unpleasant crime ridden hole dominated by Eastern European and Russian criminals with a pretty boring beach and a €15.00 charge for a desk chair.
The only carrier offing direct flights from anywhere in the UK are Ryanair from Stansted a couple times a week in high season.
Its a busted flush; in the seventies the airport handled around 1.2million whilst even before COVID that had declined to under 400,000 per annum.