On Friday, Italy launched its new national airline, ITA Airways with a promise to bring pride back to its national flag carrier, after Alitalia, Italy’s legacy airline, went bankrupt and ceased operations a day earlier. Executives unveiled plans for the …

The Italian government has signed paperwork for creating a new aviation company, for restructuring the much-troubled Alitalia. This move comes as part of wider €3 billion recapitalization of the company following the Covid-19 pandemic. “The re-founding represents the first step …

  On Friday October 25, a national strike has been planned for Italy by the staff of the national airline, Alitalia. The public servants and private sector employees are angry about low pay, pensions and working conditions. So far, more …

Alitalia has become the most punctual airline in the world in the first five months of 2019 with 87.9 per cent of its flights landing on schedule as per FlightStats.  It is the authoritative U.S. independent society which every month …

Hundreds of upcoming flights  will be cancelled because of a 24-hour coordinated strike across Italy that would involve airport and air traffic control staff.     Disputes over pay and working conditions has resulted in strike  scheduled for Tuesday. The …

Flight operations organisation, Ops Group reported that Milan’s airport will remain closed during the summer peak next year for three months that would be affecting almost 2.5 million passengers.     Linate will have its single runway resurfaced and the …

Severe forest in the area resulted in the closure of Italy’s busiest airports all day long. After the Alitalia flight took off from Pisa’s Galileo Galilei Airport shortly before 7am no plane took off since then.   More than 40 …

Alitalia returned to South Africa today after a 16-year absence when an Airbus A330 touched down at O. R. Tambo International Airport shortly after 8am.     The airline will now operate on the Rome-to-Johannesburg route four times a week …

Alitalia’s passengers are increasingly using digital tools to travel. According to the latest data gathered by the Company, online check-in (through the Alitalia App, the alitalia.com website and self-service check-in kiosks at airports) has reached 56 per cent of total …

After the collapse of Monarch Airlines, the share prices of the low-cost airlines Ryanair and easyJet rose sharply.     Immediately after the European stock markets opened, easyJet shares increased around 4 per cent, which made it one of the …