ALITALIA EXPRESS

'Alitalia Express' is an airline based in Rome, Italy and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alitalia. It operates regional scheduled services and charter flights on behalf of Alitalia. Its main bases are Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, Rome, and Malpensa International Airport, Milan.^[1]

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was established and started operations on 1 October 1997. It was founded from the defunct Avianova. It has 710 employees. In March 2003 it was reported that Alitalia were considering taking over Minerva Airlines which had suspended flight operations and transferring the turboprop fleet of Alitalia Express to Minerva. This clearly did not happen and in September 2004 Alitalia announced plans to acquire twelve additional Embraer ERJ-170 aircraft for Alitalia Express.

Destinations

Alitalia Express operates the following services (at September 2006):

★ Domestic scheduled destinations: Ancona, Bologna, Catania, Crotone, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Perugia, Pisa, Rome and Trieste.

★ International scheduled destinations: Barcelona, Belgrade, Bilbao, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Lyon, Kraków, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Prague, Sarajevo, Skopje, Stuttgart, Timişoara, Vienna, Warsaw and Zürich.

Fleet

Alitalia Express Embraer 170‎

Alitalia Express ERJ-145

The Alitalia Express aircraft fleet consists of (at March 2007):

★ 4 ATR 72-210

★ 6 ATR 72-500

★ 14 Embraer ERJ 145LR

★ 6 Embraer ERJ 170-100LR
In October 2006, Alitalia Express fleet age is 6.2 years old.^[2]

External links

★ Alitalia

★ Alitalia Express Fleet

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. Alitalia Express Fleet Age