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ItAli Airlines

ItAli Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
FS ACL ITALI
Founded1984 as Air Columbia

renamed TAI-Trasporti Aerei Italiani

rebranded ItAli Airlines in 2004
Ceased operations
11 March 2011
HubsLeonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino International Airport
ItAli Sky Pass
Fleet size11
Destinations5 (scheduled)
Parent companyAeroservices Group
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Key peopleGiuseppe Spadaccini
Websitewww.italiweb.it

ItAli Airlines S.p.A. was an airline based in Rome. It operated regional scheduled, charter and cargo services, as well as air taxi flights. Its main base was Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino International Airport, Rome.[1]

History

The air carrier had its origins in Air Columbia, estabilished in 1984 in the city of Pescara, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Only air taxi activities were carried out by this company. It was wholly owned by Giuseppe Spadaccini[1] , an Abruzzo businessman active in various sectors of aviation which he controlled through the financial company Aeroservices.[2] After this entity acquired Air Besit in 2001, it decided to deploy its two Swearingen SA-227 Metroliners in a closer geographic area (Pescara) and begin scheduled flights to Rome and other Italian cities. In 2000, the entrepreneur felt the time had come for a broader transformation.[3]

In 2003 TAI-Trasporti Aerei Italiani was born but it was a temporary solution. Between the end of 2003 and 2004 the new name ItAli Airlines was adopted. From October 2003 the air carrier linked Pescara Abruzzo Airport with important cities, connecting there with domestic and international flights. In particular, the daily flight to Milan-Linate Airport was operated by a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. Other flights were operated by a Dornier 328Jet regional airliner.[4][5] Charter operations were flown with McDonnell Douglas MD-82s, primarily from Rome-Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport and Milan Malpensa Airport. The main destinations in the summer of 2010 were Samos, Lourdes, Lampedusa, Rhodes, and, above all, Tirana, with multiple weekly flights. On 16 December of the same year, the airline began RomeLeonardo Da Vinci International Airport-Genoa and Genoa-Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport flights.[citation needed]

In early summer 2009 the airline's air taxi arm was established, with a hub at Rome Ciampino Airport and a secondary base at Milan-Linate Airport. Executive flights were operated under MustFly brand,[6] whoose aircraft were well placed under ItAli Airlines AOC. The fleet included two Dornier 328JETs, those previously used on scheduled flights, specially reconfigured with 19 seats accommodation.[citation needed]

On 21 October 2010, following investigations conducted by the Pescara tax police unit of the Guardia di Finanza ("Operation Flying Money"), Giuseppe Spadaccini was arrested along with 12 other people for a massive international tax evasion scheme involving €uros 90 million. He was allegedly the mastermind and organizer of a network of companies involved in tax evasion between Italy and the island of Madeira.[7][8] On 11 March 2011, ENAC (Italian civil aviation authority) suspended the AOC due to the persistence of some air carrier critical issues.[9]

Destinations

During winter season 2010, ItAli Airlines operated from the following hubs:[10]

Italy
France

Fleet

The ItAli Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft types:[11]

Aircraft Image Total Introduced Retired Remarks
Airbus A320-200 1 2006 2007 Leased[citation needed]
Cessna Citation Mustang 3 2009 2011 Previously operated by Air Columbia[12]
Fairchild Dornier 328JET 2 2004 2011 [citation needed]
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 5 2005 2011
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner SA-227 2 2003 2011 Previously operated by Air Columbia[citation needed]

ItAli Airlines had placed an order for 10 Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 aircraft which were expected to be in service around mid-2010,[13] plus 10 options. However, in January 2011, the contract had been dropped from the order book list.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 95.
  2. ^ N. Pedde, Almanacco delle Linee Aeree Italiane 1947-2007 (in Italian language), "Landra Helicus", GAN, Roma, 2007, ISBN 978-88-89640-06-7
  3. ^ N. Pedde, Almanacco delle Linee Aeree Italiane 1947-2007 (in Italian language), "Landra Helicus", GAN, Roma, 2007, ISBN 978-88-89640-06-7
  4. ^ G. endres (editor) & Air transport Intelligence, "World Airlines 2006", Flight International weekly magazine supplement, Reed Business Information Ltd., Sutton (Surrey - U.K.), ISBN 0-617-01034-X
  5. ^ N. Pedde, Almanacco delle Linee Aeree Italiane 1947-2007 (in Italian language), "Landra Helicus", GAN, Roma, 2007, ISBN 978-88-89640-06-7
  6. ^ Mustfly [permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Avionews Spadaccini's case. Italian GdF: "The societies involved all linked to the air transport world"
  8. ^ ANSA Evasione fiscale da 90 milioni di euro
  9. ^ AvioNews Italian ENAC suspended flight license to ItAli Airlines
  10. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ItAli Timetable winter 2010
  11. ^ "ItAli Airlines - Fleet". ItAli Airlines. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  12. ^ "Aircraft EI-SFD data". Airport-Data. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Superjet pushes back first delivery for Western launch customer". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  14. ^ "Superjet Western launch customer ItAli dropped from order book". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
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