Naples airport closed in November 2026: Capodichino closure dates and the Salerno alternative

Salerno–Costa d'Amalfi sits at Pontecagnano Faiano, about 20 kilometres from Salerno itself. That makes it genuinely convenient if your trip is aimed at the Amalfi Coast, and further out if Naples is your base — in that case, budget more time and more money for the transfer than you would from Capodichino.

A few things worth doing before November: confirm with your airline whether your flight moves to QSR, is cancelled, or is rebooked around the closure dates; if you do land at Salerno, arrange your onward leg before you fly rather than improvising at arrivals; and if your dates are flexible, the simplest fix of all is to travel before 10 or after 30 November, when Capodichino operates normally.

Down at street level, the Funicolare di Montesanto closed on 15 May for its mandatory twenty-year overhaul and is expected to stay shut for around nine months, into early 2027. A replacement bus covers Piazzetta Montesanto, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Via Morghen and Piazza Vanvitelli — but if your route is the classic one, Quartieri Spagnoli up to the Vomero, skip the bus and take the Funicolare Centrale instead. It is still running, and it is faster than waiting.

Smaller, and mostly invisible to visitors: from 1 July, EAV adjusted its bus and rail services on the Naples–Baiano line, cutting some circular routes around Pomigliano and reshuffling weekday timetables. The change does not touch the Naples–Sorrento or Naples–Pompei lines, so day trips to Pompeii, Herculaneum or Sorrento run exactly as before.