Later flights canceled: Alitalia on October 14 says Addio

Alitalia will cease operations on October 14. Italia Trasporti Arrio acquired ITA. The new national airline currently operates with 52 aircraft operating to 42 destinations.

It was already known that Italy’s new national airline should be launched on 15 October. But now the handing over of Alitalia to Italia Trasporti Aereo ITA is also official for customers. From midnight, the old airline has canceled all flights after October 14.

New flight tickets are no longer available for trips after October 15. Anyone who already has one received an email from Alitalia on Wednesday (August 25). Customers have the opportunity to rebook on flights that take place after October 14. Or they can ask for their money back.

ITA website is online

The initial version of the ITA website is online from Wednesday afternoon. Ticket sales are scheduled to start from Thursday (26 August). Looks like the booking process is already working on the website.

ITA will fly with 52 aircraft. according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera There are seven Airbus A330s, 27 A320s, 17 A319s and one Embraer E190. For this, according to the newspaper, 6.5 million euros per month lease payments, partly to leasing companies, partly to Alitalia.

Fleet to be doubled by 2025

As per ITA, the fleet should increase to 78 aircraft in 2022 as well as first new generation machines to be floated. The target is to build 105 aircraft by 2025. Of them, 23 should be long-range pilots, 81 to be from new generation aircraft.

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ITA starts with around 2,800 employees. The new airline met on Wednesday to hold talks with unions. The airline intends to focus on Rome-Fiumicino and Milan-Linate Airport as a hub and initially operates to 42 destinations.

Expansion in March 2022

In Italy these are Alghero, Brindisi, Bologna, Bari, Cagliari, Comiso, Rome, Genoa, Milan Linate, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Pescara, Reggio Calabria, Lamezia Terme, Turin, Venice and Verona. The European destinations are Algiers, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Cairo, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London Heathrow, Luxembourg, Madrid, Malta, Munich, Paris-Orly, Sofia, Tirana, Tel Aviv and. Zurich.

In the rest of the world, Boston, Tokyo-Haneda, New York and Miami are on the program. From March 2022, ITA also plans to fly to Florence, Málaga, Belgrade, Marseille, Nice, Stuttgart, Valencia, Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Washington and Los Angeles.