Alitalia — Compagnia Aerea Italiana S.p.A.[2] (Italian for Alitalia - Italian Air Company), is an Italian airline, which bought some assets from the liquidation process of the old Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane and the entire Air One.
Headquartered in Rome, it operates services to 24 domestic and 66 international destinations. Alitalia is the world's 19th largest passenger airline by fleet size. The airline's hub is Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, Rome.
[edit] History
On 26 August 2008, a group of Italian entrepreneurs and Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the major Italian banks, founded "Compagnia Aerea Italiana s.r.l.", in order to buy the trademark and part of the assets of the old "Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane s.p.a." and merge them with the private-owned Air One, the second Italian carrier.
Compagnia Aerea Italiana, a consortium of Italian investors, presented a binding offer of €1,100 million to Alitalia's bankruptcy administrator on 30 October 2008 to acquire parts of the airline, pressing ahead despite refusal by some pilots and flight attendants' unions to sign on to the rescue plan. The Italian government and the bankruptcy administrator agreed to the CAI takeover offer on 19 November 2008. The profitable assets of Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. were transferred to CAI on 12 December 2008, when CAI paid the offered sum. CAI paid €1.052 billion ($1.33 billion), paying €427 million in cash and taking on €625 million in Alitalia debts. CAI bought Air One as well.
Alitalia sold 25% of the company to Air France-KLM for €323 million under a cooperation accord on 12 January 2009. The French as well as the Italian boards agreed to the sale [3]. On 13 January 2009 Alitalia re-started, merged with Air One.
[edit] Destinations
The Alitalia fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 2 July 2009):
Alitalia Fleet
| Aircraft |
In
Service |
Orders |
Options |
Passengers
(Magnifica*/Economy) |
Routes |
Notes |
Livery |
| Airbus A319 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
126 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
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Alitalia |
| Airbus A320-214 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
153 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
|
Alitalia |
| Airbus A320-216 |
31 |
60 |
0 |
159 (12/147) |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
Deliveries: 2009-2010
Replacing: McDonnell Douglas MD-82 |
26 - Air One
5 - Alitalia |
| Airbus A321-100 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
187 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
|
Alitalia |
| Airbus A330-200 |
2 |
12 |
8 |
275 (20/255) |
International long haul
Chicago, Boston, New York JFK, Newark |
Replacing: Boeing 767-300ER |
Air One |
| Boeing 737-300 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
148 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320 |
Air One |
| Boeing 737-400 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
162 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320 |
Air One |
| Boeing 767-300ER |
6 |
0 |
0 |
214 (25/189) |
International long haul
Accra, Boston, Caracas, Chicago,
Lagos, New York JFK, Toronto |
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A330-200 |
Alitalia |
| Boeing 777-200ER |
10 |
0 |
0 |
291 (42/249) |
International long haul
Buenos Aires, Miami, Osaka
São Paulo, Tokyo |
|
Alitalia |
| Bombardier CRJ 900 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
90 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
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Air One CityLiner |
| Embraer ERJ-170 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
72 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
|
Alitalia Express |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
141
164 |
Domestic/International short-medium haul |
Being phased out
Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320 |
Alitalia |
*Magnifica is the name of the Business Class offered on International medium-long haul flights.
On 17 March 2009, Alitalia received its first new Airbus A320-216 since the merger with Air One. The aircraft carries Alitalia's new livery. [4]
[edit] MilleMiglia
The airline's frequent flyer program is named "MilleMiglia", and is part of the SkyTeam alliance program, allowing passengers to collect miles and redeem them with free tickets across the whole alliance.
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