The project lead partner is Airports of Puglia S. Yet, new challenges, have faced project partners with new assignments. The COVID inevitably impacted the implementation of activities, due to reduction of air connections in and in and several restrictions applied by Programme Countries to travel movements.
For this reason, during the project implementation, partners asked for several modifications, not only linked to extension in timing, but also to activities: the pilot actions consist of new multimodal connections with a road connection between Puglia and Molise and an air route from Bari to Tirana, as well as of the creation of COVID free airports zones with relevant equipment and vehicles, aimed at testing feasibility of new interventions, paving the way for further broader developments and executing concrete solutions about accessibility and connectivity in air transport.
In fact, COVID emergency has a serious impact on air transport and for this reason project aimed also to define processes and management models of pre-screening activities in the airports, as they can become COVID-free. Moreover, partners realised some different communication and promotional activities in order to improve passengers' travel experience through the implementation of interventions aimed at strengthening airport facilities in terms of infrastructures and services.
So, although the primary project faced many obstacles, it still managed to reach tangible results thanks to partnership cohesion and commitment to carry out activities within due dates.
All these project results ameliorate travel experience of passengers that can become perfectly satisfied i. News 29 January First call for standard projects: qualitative evaluation phase is coming to an end.
