ITALYNEWS Ed. July 13 2009
AIR
DOLOMITI is on the way to phase out the ATR42/500s with more ATR72s in
order to optimize the revenue produced by the stretched version that
supply best economical perfomances.
AIR VALLEE have in ACMI one Balkan Holidays A320s LZ-BHC with airvallee.com titles applied.
BLUE PANORAMA have introduced B767/300ERs on saturday rotation
Bologna-Bari-Sharm el Sheikh and back. It has one permanent based
B767/300ERs in Bologna.
ELBAFLY
continues the temptatives to start up all year round flights thanks to
a PSO on Elba-Florence/Pisa. On July 15 2009 a corporate ATR Industries
58 seater ATR72s will fly to Elba from Toulouse for a demonstration
series of flights. On July 16 2009 they has scheduled with this
propliner a series of flights from Elba to Florence and back.
HELVETIC AIRWAYS will add these fleights over Christmas time from Zurich to some Southern Italy gateways:
BRINDISI on Dec 20, 23, 27, 30; Jan 3 and 10
LAMEZIA on Dec 19, 27, 30; Jan 3 and 10
CATANIA on Dec 18, 21, 23, 28; Jan 1, 4, 8, 11
PALERMO on Dec 18, 21, 28; Jan 1, 4, 8, 11
ITALIATOUR AIRLINES will dealy to start up flights from Brescia to
Naples/Catania to September 2009. One more Avro RJ85s (2nd) is on the
way to be delivered in August/September. They planes to add later
another similar ship.
Medium/long term plans reports new flights in Italy and to Europe with intention to establish a regional network.
MYAIR A320s EC-GRG is reported in service now from yesterday with
Italian no frills airlines, soon is expected the delivery of EI-EEX.
Rumors reports about operational problems due to sometimes airplanes
are reported in long stays due to the airline suffers of many financial
troubles.
PRIMERA on July 10th 2009 Boeing 737-700s,
registration TF-JXG performing flight GX-362 from Zakinthos (Greece) to
Dublin (Ireland) with 153 passengers and 6 crew, was escorted by two
Italian fighter aircraft into Rome Fiumicino (Italy) after the crew
requested an emergency landing due to a technical problem. The airplane
landed safely on runway 16L, that had been kept sterile for 40 minutes
for the emergency arrival with all other traffic operating on runway
16R.
TRAWEL FLY propose right now the new winter timetable
where they'll fly Bergamo-Catania is 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su and
Bergamo-Naples on mo-fr-su.
WINDJET have start to upload its winter schedule available for booking.
Catania-Forlì is 14xweek
Catania-Milan Linate is twice daily
Catania-Paris CDG on mo and fr
Catania-Parma is daily
Catania-Pisa is daily
Catania-Rome FCO is 4xday
Catania-Turin is daily
Catania-Venice is 2xday
Catania-Verona is daily
Palermo-Forlì is 8xweek (daily and a second frequency on sunday)
Palermo-Milan Linate is daily
Palermo-Paris CDG is 2x week on mo and fr
Palermo-Parma is daily
Palermo-Rome FCO is 2xday
Palermo-Turin is daily
Palermo-Venice is 2xday
Palermo-Pisa is daily
Palermo-Verona is daily
Forlì-Berlin TXL on th and su,
Forlì-Bucharest on mo and fr
Forlì-Cagliari is daily
Forlì-Moscow DME on we and su
Forlì-Prague on mo and fr
WIZZ will add the new route Bergamo-Gdansk by winter timetable on wednesdays and sundays with A320s.