ITA Airways signs codeshare agreement with Etihad
Italy’s new national airline ITA Airways has signed a codeshare agreement with Etihad on December 8, 2021. The new partnership intends to boost…
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Italy’s ITA Airways firms up order for 28 Airbus aircraft
Italy’s ITA Airways has firmed up an order for 28 Airbus aircraft, comprising narrow-body and wide-body aircraft. The deal finalizes a memorandum of understanding for seven A220s, 11 A320neos and 10 A330neos first announced on September 30, 2021. ITA, the successor to bankrupt Alitalia, is also planning to lease A350s as part…
Italy’s new national carrier ITA Airways to fly Pope Francis to Cyprus
Pope Francis will fly with ITA Airways, Italy’s new national carrier, during a trip to Cyprus. The special flight…
Italy’s Rome Fiumicino Airport opens new airport operations center
Rome’s Fiumicino Leonardo Da Vinci Airport (FCO) opened a new Airport Operations Center (APOC) on November 24, 2021. …
ITA Airways’ first Airbus A350 to arrive in June 2022
Alitalia’s successor, ITA Airways, will reportedly receive its first Airbus A350 widebody in June 2022. In an interview with…
ITA Airways sees a future with Lufthansa Group
Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways would like to become part of the Lufthansa Group, the airline’s chairman of the…
Italian Blue Panorama suspends flights, unions say
On October 26, 2021, Blue Panorama suspended flights, making it the fourth Italian airline to fold since the…
A fresh start? Alitalia successor ITA Airways takes off for the first time
The Alitalia brand will live on. Or so many people thought when news emerged on October 14, 2021,…
Addio Alitalia: debt-making flag carrier takes off for the last time
The prolonged Alitalia’s saga gets to an end. The flag carrier of Italy is about to take off…
Wizz Air refuses to deal with unions in Italy
While aggressively expanding in Italy, Wizz Air stays determined not to engage with labor unions.The Hungarian low-cost carrier…
Italy swaps long-struggling HammerHead drone for manned planes
Italy canceled its order for the Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead drone and ordered manned versions of the Avanti light…
Private jet crashes into building in Milan, killing eight
A single-engine plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed into a vacant two-story office building…
Italian plane comes under fire as it takes off from Kabul airport
An Italian military transport plane came under fire as it flew out of Hamid Karzai International Airport (KBL),…
Alitalia must repay $1.1B in state aid, Commission rules
Alitalia has to repay state aid, but capital injections given to successor Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA) are in…
Italy tightens entry requirements on U.S. travelers
Due to rising coronavirus infections in the United States, the European Union removed the U.S. from its ‘safe…
Strike! Italian ATC walkout prompts Alitalia flight cancellations
With an air traffic controllers’ strike planned in Italy for September 7, 2021, flag carrier Alitalia has been…
Italy to welcome a new airline: FlyLeOne gets Italian AOC
A new Italian startup airline FlyLeOne is about to enter the European aviation market. The Italian Civil Aviation…
Finally the end? Alitalia cancels flights past October 2021
The Italian flag carrier Alitalia has announced that all flights scheduled after October 15, 2021, are canceled. Passengers that…