Two airlines now all in one, Meridiana and Eurofly forms a single player that is born and called Meridiana Fly. Last
night the Board of Meridiana and Eurofly in different meetings, but
exactly concurrent resolved to proceed through the conferment of the
integration activities' of air transport of Meridiana into Eurofly. The
integration will determine 'the formation of an aggregation of one
airline, Eurofly and the Aviation business, which will be called 'Meridiana Fly SpA'. Eurofly's
board has resolved to submit for approval a special meeting of
shareholders a capital increase in the form to pay for a value of 52.56 million
euros.. Approved a capital increase in option for 40 million euros to be executed after integration. The extraordinary meeting of Eurofly and meeting was convened on 21 and 22 of December 2009.
The
integrated business plan - it said in a statement - provides that
"enhanced strategic and competitive positioning of the Meridiana Group in aviation market by obtaining a larger size, the rationalization of
the fleet, the greater flexibility 'and the achievement of operational
seasonal industrial synergies with a significant reduction in costs of production. " The
Plan also provides for the creation of a new companyy (' Meridiana Express ') a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridiana Fly,
designed to provide the tools to fly scheduled and
charter on short and medium-range summer
season routes in order to intercept a greater flow of passengers that flies during the higher peak
tourist season, to reduce costs and raise the level of operational flexibility.
Meridiana Fly have a fleet composed by 4 A319 8, A320, 18 MD82, 3 A330 and has a network of destinations in 4 continents.
Thrice weekly from March 30 2010 is the new no frill service operated by Wizz on Forlì-Budapest. Operated on tuesdays, thursdays, saturdays with 180 seater A320s this si the 7th route available from the smallest gateway not so very close to Bologna like advertised Forlì/Bologna.
Budget carrier firm of Blue Panorama, today launched the new flight Rome FCO-Istanbul Sabha Gokcen scheduled 6 times a week. The new route is available now for sale and it will begin by Dec 17 2009. The flights are granted by a Boeing B737s aircraft with starting fare friom 49 € one way and taxes enclosed.
Yesterday evening A321-112s I-BIXH was the first to be back from Norwich with new colour scheme and new interiors with 200 Recaro slim seats. 7 A321s will get the new corporate image prior end of 2009. Again on Nov 14 2009 two more A321s was ferried to Norwich, they are I-BIXG/Z.
In the meantime the Alitalia A320s are on the way to ahve the seat capacity increased to 165 from 153. The A319s will have the new standard to 138 in 2010.
Three times a week with effect Dec 4 2009 is the new schedule of resumed services from Bergamo to Reggio Calabria. This flight it will meet the demand that today has difficulties to go until the most remote edge of Italian peninsula.
Trawel Fly will fly on tuesdays, fridays, sundays and additional flights are planned on Dec 20, 23 and Jan 6 and 7.
New services are planned on twice weekly basis from Naples to Paris CDG on thursdays and sundays.
Trawel Fly is part of Trawel SpA, a company with interests in incoming, airline representative and it use a 148 seater B737/700s in ACMI from Astraeus.
A new feature that goes hand in hand with the growth of
Eurofly scheduled operations. It should be understood the entry in Iata from Eurofly, the
international association of airlines which counts among its members
220 carriers in 140 countries worldwide. "The presence in IATA will
continue to develop ever more effective relationships with other
carriers - the company said in a press release - making certificated the procedures for
accreditation and therefore easier to reach commercial
agreements." After the technical part of membership followed by other
steps that will allow Eurofly to access services that IATA makes
available to its members a view to "make the service offered to
passengers more closely to the needs of interconnection between
carriers in different countries - continued note - especially with
regard to international customers. "
United Airlines have applied slot requests to fly daily Rome-Chicago from March 28 2010. Three class B767/300ERs is planned to be in use on this route. No bookings are available at the mnoment.
Three years later Meridiana deletes any participation into ADF- Aeroporto di Firenze, the managing company at Florence airport. Meridiana have holds in his stands the 17,5% and now them they were bought by a local bank CRF-Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. They has paid 18,1€ each the shares in the hands until now from Meridiana. Today they are quoted 15€ at Milan stoke exchange. The bank have paid 28.617.584€ for that stock of shares, 3 years ago Meridiana have paid 17€ each the shares. The dismission probably can be seen in the new heading of the airline to focus the business into the airline management.
Florence is also an airport that has not any clear way of expansion. They are on the way shortly to have a new airport terminal, but talks and fights between local authorities concerning a new runway surely is far away from the breakdown day.
Tomorrow the passengers on Alitalia flights from Rome Fiumicino to Milan Linate (or vice versa), holding an electronic ticket, the
check-in and boarding are even more comfortable and faster. The new service Mobile Check-In allows to receive boarding
passes on your PDA or cell phone with Internet access.
To enjoy the service of Mobile Check-In is needed to connect to the
site http://mobile.alitalia.it and enter the booking information (name,
surname and e-ticket number or Millemiglia card number). This makes it
possible to check-in, choose your seat and receive a text message on
the display of the phone or PDA device with a link to the
"electronic boarding card" in the form of a bar code.
The Mobile Check-in can be done even from a cell other than that
will receive the SMS. At the stage of simply inserting the mobile
number / email address where you want to send a link to the
"electronic boarding card.
Joining the airport you can go directly to the dedicated security channels to
the Rome Milan shuttle service (or vice versa) showing yours the
"electronic boarding card" appears your cell phone display. During boarding will just
pass the display of the mobile phone (with the bar code of the
"electronic boarding card") on a dedicated optical sensor. Of course
there remains a requirement to show your proof of identity.
Using this new service, customers will always have their boarding passes on their phone without having to print more.
The Mobile Check-in is possible from 30 hours up to 30 minutes
before flight departure. The service will be extended to other airports
in the network of the Company at airports will be available when the
electronic infrastructure required.
The Mobile Check-In service is not available for those who need
special assistance to passengers Infant (0 to 2 years) and passenger
Child (2 to 12 years old).
The site http://mobile.alitalia.it you can also check the status of
your flight and check the number of miles accumulated under the Mille
Miglia.
The Mobile Check-In joins the other services such as acceptance of
electronic passenger seats for Self Check-In available in many
airports, the Tele Check-In (which allows you to call the operations of
acceptance and is dedicated to owners of Card Ulisse, Freccia Alata and
Freccia Alata Plus and many corporate clients) and Web Check-In (which
allows you to check in and print your boarding pass from a computer
connected to the Internet site www.alitalia.it).
Italy's flag carrier Alitalia-CAI will resume flights to Los Angeles by March 29 2010. The new service in departure from Rome FCO is planned to go with five weekly flights operated by B777/243s. Its the first new gateway opened on his long haul network since the airline take over.
Effectively Dec 2010 Meridiana will open the new daily flight Milan Linate-Bari.
New code sharing are applied on some Lufthansa flights from Frankfurt to four gateways in Italy. Bologna, Florence, Turin and Venice are now appear in the Japanesse carrier network map.
These are the flights with code sharing applied
Frankfurt – Bologna NH6205 LH3978
Bologna – Frankfurt NH6204 LH3973
Frankfurt – Florence NH6203 LH4066
Florence – Frankufrt NH6202 LH4063
Frankfurt – Turin NH6207 LH4018
Turin – Frankfurt NH6206 LH401
Frankfurt – Venice NH6201 LH4090
Venice – Frankfurt NH6200 LH4085
Eurofly, the budget arm of Meridiana will fly again the US in summer 2010. Plans reports about to resume flights from New York JFK to Naples (2xweek) and Paòermo (weekly). Today there are no confirm about services to Rome FCO.
Its the time of B777s to get the new livery. Two liners in November/December will have the new livery on the body. Continues the C-Checks contracted to SIA Engineering Company.
The long haul fleet will have the new intermediate class Premium Economy, the new service class is planned to be unveiled between November and December.
Continues the change of layout on Airbus narrow body fleet. The old Alitalia A320s planes will have 165 seats instead 156. The AirOne A320s will have 165 in place of 159. Next year the new slim seats will applied to A319 with 138 seats and A321s upgraded to 200.
AirOne will have only 5 A320s in future and the ones with AP lovery will be repainted and many of them are just transferred under the Alitalia AOC.
Three more A320s are expected in delivery brand new from Airbus by the end of year 2009 and 10 in 2010.
Four MD82s have left the fleet thanks to the delivery of latest brand new A320s. The B737s fleet in AirOne will be removed in the second part 2010.
New ordered A330s will start to be delivered in May-June 2010 and 4 are planned to be in service by end of the same year.
This morning a Windjet A319s operating flight number IV492 with 128 passengers and 5 cre members enroute over Belarus from Forlì to Moscow Domodedovo was diverted to Minsk due to the pilots have found a windshield crack. The prirority landing was performed safely and no injuries are reported. Passengers now is reported by the Official State Press Agency Itar-TASS are in the terminal and Windjet have planned to operate the new flight with another Airbus in arrival from Italy.
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