Naples Capodichino, the main gateway to Naples and the Amalfi Coast, will shut completely from 1 to 30 November 2026. The full-month closure is for a €30 million renovation of the airport's single runway, its taxiways and guidance lighting — work GESAC, the airport's operator, is running around the clock during the quiet season to keep downtime as short as possible. It's separate from the airport's bigger €250 million plan for a new non-Schengen terminal.
So where do flights go instead? Salerno Costa d'Amalfi e del Cilento Airport, about 75 km away, will pick up some of the displaced services: six domestic routes (including Milan, Bergamo, Trieste and Turin) and nine international ones, among them Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris, Dubai and Sharm el-Sheikh, plus Eurowings flights from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart. Salerno can't absorb everything, though — Lufthansa Group is sending its Naples traffic to Rome Fiumicino, roughly 200 km away, for the month.
If you're flying to Campania in November 2026, the key move is to reconfirm your arrival airport with your airline and rebuild your onward plans from scratch. Ground transport is being boosted — extra buses between Naples Piazza Garibaldi and Salerno airport, more trains stopping at Salerno station, and trial fixed-fare shared taxis — but transfers will be longer and pricier than a standard Capodichino arrival. Existing connections to the Amalfi Coast and nearby towns will still run.
The timing isn't ideal for the region. Naples handled more than 13.2 million passengers in 2025, and November events like the Gustus agrifood festival could feel the pinch if travellers simply skip the month. Local hotels and tour operators face a quieter shoulder season made quieter still.
There's a silver lining for Salerno, though. Its airport serves a fraction of Naples' 112 international destinations, but the city itself is a gentler, often cheaper base than its famously chaotic neighbour — a palm-lined seafront promenade, medieval old town, and shorter hops to the Amalfi Coast. For anyone flexible enough to land there in November, it may be the underrated winner of the whole shutdown.
Bottom line: if a Naples trip in November 2026 is on your radar, book with the closure in mind, double-check which airport your flight actually uses, and pad your transfer times. Everyone else might find that flying into Salerno — or shifting the trip to October or December — is the simpler call. — Travel Tomorrow
