ItAli Airlines

ItAli Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
FS ACL ITALI
Founded2003
Ceased operations11 March 2011
HubsLeonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino International Airport
Frequent-flyer programItAli Sky Pass
Fleet size11
Destinations5 (scheduled)
Parent companyAeroservices Group
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Key peopleGiuseppe Spadaccini
Websitewww.italiweb.it

ItAli Airlines S.p.A. was an airline based in Rome. It operated regional scheduled, charter and cargo services, as well as air taxi flights. Its main base was Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino International Airport, Rome.[1]

History

ItAli Airlines was originally founded in Pescara as TAI-Trasporti Aerei Italiani and changed its name in 2004. It was wholly owned by Giuseppe Spadaccini.[1] As ItAli Airlines from October 2003 it linked Pescara Abruzzo Airport with important cities, connecting there with domestic and international flights. In particular, the daily flight to Milan-Linate Airport was operated by a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. Other flights were operated by a Dornier 328Jet regional airliner. Charter operations were flown with McDonnell Douglas MD-82s, primarily from Rome-Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport and Milan Malpensa Airport. The main destinations in the summer of 2010 were Samos, Lourdes, Lampedusa, Rhodes, and, above all, Tirana, with multiple weekly flights. On December 16 of the same year, the airline began RomeLeonardo Da Vinci International Airport-Genoa and Genoa-Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport flights.

In early summer 2009 the airline's air taxi arm was established, with a hub at Rome Ciampino Airport and a secondary base at Milan-Linate Airport. Executive flights were operated under MustFly brand[2], whoose aircraft were well placed under ItAli Airlines AOC. The fleet included two Dornier 328JETs specially reconfigured with 19 seats, those previously used on scheduled flights.

On October 21, 2010, following investigations conducted by the Pescara tax police unit of the Guardia di Finanza ("Operation Flying Money"), the majority shareholder Giuseppe Spadaccini was arrested along with 12 other people for a massive international tax evasion scheme involving €uros 90 million.[3][4] On 11 March 2011, ENAC (Italian civil aviation authority) suspended the AOC due to the persistence of some air carrier critical issues.[5]

Destinations

During winter season 2010, ItAli Airlines operated from the following hubs:[6]

Italy
France

Fleet

The ItAli Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft types:[7]

Aircraft Image Total Introduced Retired Remark
Airbus A320-200 1 2006 2007 Leased[8]
Cessna Citation Mustang 1 2009 2011 [9]
Fairchild Dornier 328JET 2 2004 2011 [10]
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 5 2005 2011
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner 2 2003 2011 [11]

ItAli Airlines had placed an order for 10 Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 aircraft which were expected to be in service around mid-2010,[12] plus 10 options. However, in January 2011, the contract had been dropped from the order book list.[13]

See also

  • List of defunct airlines of Italy

References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 95.
  2. ^ www.mustfly.it
  3. ^ Avionews Spadaccini's case. Italian GdF: "The societies involved all linked to the air transport world"
  4. ^ ANSA Evasione fiscale da 90 milioni di euro
  5. ^ AvioNews Italian ENAC suspended flight license to ItAli Airlines
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ItAli Timetable winter 2010
  7. ^ "ItAli Airlines - Fleet". ItAli Airlines. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Airbus A320-214". rzjets. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Aircraft EI-SFD data". Airport-Data. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Itali Airlines". rzjets. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Swearingen SA227". rzjets. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Superjet pushes back first delivery for Western launch customer". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  13. ^ "Superjet Western launch customer ItAli dropped from order book". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
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