From The article by Emanuele Zanini on the newspaper "l'Arena"
After more than six months of forced closure due to the pandemic, the Malcesine cable car finally reopens its doors. The first race of the long-awaited reopening is scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 12 May. You can go up from 9am to 5pm. The ticket office will remain open from Wednesday, however Atf, the Malcesine funicular transport company, strongly recommends the advance purchase of tickets through online booking to guarantee access and above all to avoid queues. and gatherings at the entrance. The trips from the departure station to the top of the Baldo in Tratto Spino will be every half hour. From 9.15 onwards, every hour, there is also a ride for passengers with mountain bikes. Paragliding enthusiasts can also take advantage of the cable car service. For the descent, the last race, however, is at 6.45 pm. Due to the known limitations imposed by the anti Covid health emergency, the maximum capacity of the cabins has necessarily been almost halved: in the first section, which from the departure station in the center of Malcesine arrives at the intermediate station of San Michele, for each trip can accommodate up to twenty people. In the second, however, up to forty passengers will be able to climb to the top. Before boarding, users will be measured their temperature and all necessary measures will be taken that provide for spacing. The means of transport by cable, assured by Atf, in addition to having been regularly overhauled in recent months, are constantly sanitized and during the races the windows of the cabins will remain open to allow the continuous exchange of air. The staff of the cable car will monitor every stage of boarding, both uphill and downhill, to verify that passengers comply with all the anti-Covid measures, starting with the use of the mask. Once you arrive at your destination, the on-site accommodation facilities will be open in the area around Tratto Spino: from the SkyWalk bar to the Baita dei Forti and La Capannina. The Prà Alpesina plant, on the other hand, will remain closed at the moment, but ready for reopening as soon as conditions permit. In some places there is still snow, which has fallen abundantly in recent months on the Baldo. From ATF there is great anticipation and excitement for the restart. "Finally, after three postponements, we can start again," says Pier Giorgio Schena, president of Atf. A first reopening was scheduled for the end of March and then for 23 April. But still due to the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, it had not been able to reopen. «Now we can leave again. We are confident: the hope is to see Veronese, Italian tourists but also foreigners on our plants. We hope to be able to improve the results obtained in 2020, heavily penalized by the first wave of the pandemic ”, explains Schena. "We are confident that the push on vaccines can have its positive effects." But the expectations are also addressed to the arrival of tourists abroad after the reassuring news on the number of infections in Italy 2020 was in fact an authentic ordeal for the Malcesine cable car: the spring summer season had started only on 13 June and with strong limitations that for a few weeks allowed only twenty people to reach altitude with a race up to Tratto Spino, numbers slightly increased only at a later time. The result had been losses in collections for four million euros, revenues dropped by 45 percent, passages in the summer period more than halved. In 2019, the summer season ended with over 540 thousand passes. In the summer of 2020, due to the pandemic that led to a strong quota on admissions, 230,000 presences had not been exceeded. Then came another forced stop, which has been going on since last November. In fact, due to Covid, last winter season, including Christmas, was also missed. Now finally we start again, with the hope of returning to a normal season
After more than six months of forced closure due to the pandemic, the Malcesine cable car finally reopens its doors. The first race of the long-awaited reopening is scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 12 May. You can go up from 9am to 5pm. The ticket office will remain open from Wednesday, however Atf, the Malcesine funicular transport company, strongly recommends the advance purchase of tickets through online booking to guarantee access and above all to avoid queues. and gatherings at the entrance. The trips from the departure station to the top of the Baldo in Tratto Spino will be every half hour. From 9.15 onwards, every hour, there is also a ride for passengers with mountain bikes. Paragliding enthusiasts can also take advantage of the cable car service. For the descent, the last race, however, is at 6.45 pm. Due to the known limitations imposed by the anti Covid health emergency, the maximum capacity of the cabins has necessarily been almost halved: in the first section, which from the departure station in the center of Malcesine arrives at the intermediate station of San Michele, for each trip can accommodate up to twenty people. In the second, however, up to forty passengers will be able to climb to the top. Before boarding, users will be measured their temperature and all necessary measures will be taken that provide for spacing. The means of transport by cable, assured by Atf, in addition to having been regularly overhauled in recent months, are constantly sanitized and during the races the windows of the cabins will remain open to allow the continuous exchange of air. The staff of the cable car will monitor every stage of boarding, both uphill and downhill, to verify that passengers comply with all the anti-Covid measures, starting with the use of the mask. Once you arrive at your destination, the on-site accommodation facilities will be open in the area around Tratto Spino: from the SkyWalk bar to the Baita dei Forti and La Capannina. The Prà Alpesina plant, on the other hand, will remain closed at the moment, but ready for reopening as soon as conditions permit. In some places there is still snow, which has fallen abundantly in recent months on the Baldo. From ATF there is great anticipation and excitement for the restart. "Finally, after three postponements, we can start again," says Pier Giorgio Schena, president of Atf. A first reopening was scheduled for the end of March and then for 23 April. But still due to the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, it had not been able to reopen. «Now we can leave again. We are confident: the hope is to see Veronese, Italian tourists but also foreigners on our plants. We hope to be able to improve the results obtained in 2020, heavily penalized by the first wave of the pandemic ”, explains Schena. "We are confident that the push on vaccines can have its positive effects." But the expectations are also addressed to the arrival of tourists abroad after the reassuring news on the number of infections in Italy 2020 was in fact an authentic ordeal for the Malcesine cable car: the spring summer season had started only on 13 June and with strong limitations that for a few weeks allowed only twenty people to reach altitude with a race up to Tratto Spino, numbers slightly increased only at a later time. The result had been losses in collections for four million euros, revenues dropped by 45 percent, passages in the summer period more than halved. In 2019, the summer season ended with over 540 thousand passes. In the summer of 2020, due to the pandemic that led to a strong quota on admissions, 230,000 presences had not been exceeded. Then came another forced stop, which has been going on since last November. In fact, due to Covid, last winter season, including Christmas, was also missed. Now finally we start again, with the hope of returning to a normal season