Air Vallée

Air Vallée
IATA ICAO Call sign
VK[1] RVL[2] AIR VALLEE
FoundedJune 1987
Ceased operationsJune 2016
Operating basesFederico Fellini International Airport[3]
Fleet size0
HeadquartersRimini, Italy[2]
Websiteairvallee.it

Air Vallée S.p.A. was an Italian charter and regional airline based in Rimini.[2] In June 2016 it ceased all operations.

History

Air Vallée was founded in June 1987 to promote the commercial development of Aosta Airport. In June 1988, a twice weekly link with Rome was started with a Beechcraft King Air C90. The C90 was replaced in October 1989 with a Cessna Citation I and another twin jet was acquired. Both were replaced by a Learjet 31 acquired in January 1992 and a Beechcraft King Air 200 was acquired in August 1993.

It operated scheduled services linking two destinations in Sardinia and six on mainland Italy, as well as charter services. Its main base was Aosta Airport, with hubs at Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Turin Caselle Airport.[4] The airline's head office was in Aosta Airport in Saint-Christophe.[5]

In the summer of 2010, Air Vallée restarted operations, offering domestic flights from Rimini as well as a weekly flight from Perugia to Olbia on Sardinia. A Dornier 328 Jet served these routes.

As of September 2014, the airline operated only charter flights but planned to resume scheduled flights from Foggia to Milan-Malpensa and Turin from 26 October 2014.

In June 2016 Air Vallée suspended its operations as ENAC retired the airline's licence. The airline's sole aircraft was returned to the lessor.[6] In early 2018, the company showed its new website with flights to Rimini, Catania, Pescara, Tirana and other airports around Europe.[7]

Destinations

As of October 2015, Air Vallée served the following destinations:

Albania
Greece
Italy

Fleet

As of January 2016, the Air Vallée fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[8]

A former Air Vallée Fairchild Dornier 328JET
Air Vallée Historical Fleet
Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Remark
Airbus A320 2 2008 2009 LZ-BHC leased from BH Air
PH-AAX leased from Amsterdam Airlines[9]
Dornier 328JET 2 200 2014 I-AIRJ leased from MHS Aviation
I-AIRX leased from Dornier[9]
Fokker 50 1 2014 2016 SE-LEZ operated by Amapola Flyg[9]
Learjet 31 1 1991 2016 I-AIRW[10]
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 1 2011 2012 YR-HBE operated by Medallion Air[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IATA - Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Elenco delle imprese titolari di licenza di trasporto aereo". enac.gov.it. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Air Vallée". ch-aviation.com.
  4. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 27 March 2007. p. 68.
  5. ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 20–26 March 2001. 72.
  6. ^ "Enac lascia a piedi Air Vallée, voli cancellati".
  7. ^ "AIR VALLEE S.p.A. Services Aeriens du Val d'Aoste". Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2006.
  8. ^ "Air Vallee Fleet - Airfleets aviation".
  9. ^ a b c d "Air Vallée fleet". Planespotters. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Learjet 31". rzjets. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

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