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.

Code Data

• IATA Code: XM
• ICAO Code: SMX
• Callsign: Aliexpress

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.

Services

Alitalia Express operates the following services (at January 2005):

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

• International scheduled destinations: Barcelona, Belgrade, Bilbao, Birmingham, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Skopje, Stuttgart, Timişoara, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich.

Fleet

The Alitalia Express aircraft fleet consists of (at July 2006):

• 14 Embraer ERJ 145LR
• 6 Embraer ERJ 170
• 1 ATR 42-300
• 4 ATR 72-210
• 6 ATR 72-500

In March 2006, AlitaliaExpress fleet age is 6.9 years old.

External links

• Alitalia
• Alitalia Express Fleet Age
• Alitalia Express Fleet

Airlines of Italy

Alitalia Express | Alitalia Express