Alitalia Express

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Alitalia Express is an airline based in Rome, Italy and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alitalia. It operates regional scheduled services and charter flights on behalf of Alitalia. Its main bases are Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport (FCO), Rome, and Malpensa Airport (MXP), Milan.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: XM
• ICAO Code: SMX
• Callsign: Aliexpress ^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations on 1 October 1997. It was founded from the defunct Avianova. In March 2003 it was reported that Alitalia were considering taking over Minerva Airlines which had suspended flight operations and transferring the turboprop fleet of Alitalia Express to Minerva. This clearly did not happen and in September 2004 Alitalia announced plans to acquire twelve additional Embraer ERJ-170 aircraft for Alitalia Express.

[edit] Services

Alitalia Express operates the following services (at September 2006):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Ancona, Bologna, Crotone, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Perugia, Pisa, Rome and Trieste.

• International scheduled destinations: Barcelona, Belgrade, Bilbao, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Lyon, Kraków, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Prague, Sarajevo, Skopje, Stuttgart, Timişoara, Vienna, Warsaw and Zürich.

[edit] Fleet

The Alitalia Express aircraft fleet consists of (at August 2006) ^[2] :

• 4 ATR 72-210
• 6 ATR 72-500
• 14 Embraer ERJ 145LR
• 6 Embraer ERJ 170-100LR

In October 2006, Alitalia Express fleet age is 6.2 years old.

[edit] External links

• Alitalia
• Alitalia Express Fleet Age
• Alitalia Express Fleet

[edit] References