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Italian international airline with headquarters in Rome. Although the airline no longer commands monopoly status in its country, as of 2002 the Italian government still owned a majority share of the company.

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Alitalia
IATA
AZ		 ICAO
AZA		 Callsign
ALITALIA
Founded 26 August 2008 (as Alitalia - Compagnia Aerea Italiana S.p.A.)
Hubs Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
Focus cities Linate Airport
Malpensa Airport
Frequent flyer program MilleMiglia
Member lounge Club Freccia Alata
Welcome Air One
Sky Team Elite
Alliance SkyTeam
Fleet size 153[1] (+70 orders)
Destinations 70
Headquarters Rome, Italy
Key people Roberto Colaninno (Chairman)
Rocco Sabelli (CEO)
Website: www.alitalia.com

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.

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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.". The aim of fouding this company was to buy the trademark and part of the assets of the old "Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane s.p.a." and to merge these with Air One, another Italian carrier.

Compagnia Aerea Italiana (CAI) presented a binding offer of €1,100 million to Alitalia's bankruptcy administrator on 30 October 2008 to acquire parts of the bankrupt airline Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane. Their action pressed ahead against 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. With that act CAI became a new incarnation of Alitalia.

(new) Alitalia sold 25% of the company to Air France-KLM for €323 million under a cooperation agreement on 12 January 2009; with an option for future stock purchase. The French as well as the Italian boards agreed to the sale [3]. On 13 January 2009 Alitalia re-started, merged with Air One.

Destinations

Main article: Alitalia destinations

Fleet

President George W. Bush walks the red carpet with Pope Benedict XVI. Behind is "Shepherd One" a specially dedicated plane for the Pope belonging to Alitalia (2008)
Alitalia Airbus A321-100 landing at London Heathrow Airport (2007)

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 Alitalia
Airbus A320-214 11 0 0 153 Domestic/International short-medium haul Alitalia
Airbus A320-216 32 58 0 159 (12/147) Domestic/International short-medium haul Deliveries: 2009-2010
Replacing: McDonnell Douglas MD-82		 26 - Air One
6 - 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
Airbus A350-800 0 12 12 275 (20/255) International long haul Entry into service: 2014 Alitalia
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 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. On 6 July 2009 Alitalia received its 6th new Airbus A320-216 The aircraft carries Alitalia's new livery. Alitalia also signs for 12 ordered + 12 option

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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.

References

  1. ^ "CNN - Air France-KLM buys stake in Alitalia". http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/13/alitalia.air.france.klm/index.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-13. 
  2. ^ "ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority)" (PDF). http://www.enac-italia.it/repository/ContentManagement/information/P1084252587/Imprese_Licenza_Trasporto_Aereo_130109.pdf. 
  3. ^ "Air France-KLM buys 25% of Alitalia". Financial Times. 12/01/09. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/776c5c2c-e0ce-11dd-b0e8-000077b07658.html. 
  4. ^ Alitalia New A320-216
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