giusto per completezza...il mese scorso ero ad un congresso in Germania e, parlando a cena con altri partecipanti che arrivano dal centro italia, mi dicevano che anche le loro aziende, avendo preso i voli con un certo anticipo, li hanno fatti volare con Transavia o Easyjet e non AZ vista l'incertezza...come detto da outlmerge non è forse solo una agenzia ad andare con i piedi di piombo...
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Le agenzie di viaggi non sono ONLUS ma devono far profitti, quindi nei limiti della decenza indirizzano verso compagnie verso le quali hanno migliori accordi di remunerazione del prenotato.
Se ci fosse un forte sospetto di messa a terra dei voli non vedo la ragione di tutelare Francia, Regno Unito e Germania rispetto ad esempio ad Olanda, Stati Initi, Giappone, Brasile, ecc...
Air Italy plans North American growth despite US protests
08 MAY, 2019*SOURCE: FLIGHT DASHBOARD*BY: GHIM-LAY YEO*WASHINGTON DC
Air Italy plans to announce at least two additional North American destinations for the summer of 2020, as the airline expands transatlantic service despite opposition from US legacy carriers.
The carrier also hopes to unveil its first US interline partner later this year, chief operating officer Rossen Dimitrov tells FlightGlobal.
He declines to specify the new destinations pending agreements with airport operators, but says one of the two will likely be seasonal. In addition, Air Italy sees potential for one of its two Californian destinations – Los Angeles and San Francisco*–*to convert to year-round service in 2020, says Dimitrov.
The Italian carrier recently added seasonal service to Toronto from Milan Malpensa, after launching seasonal flights from Milan to both Los Angeles and San Francisco. It plans to suspend US seasonal flights later this year in favour of destinations like the Maldives,*Mombasa, Tenerife and Zanzibar.*Air Italy serves Miami and New York John F Kennedy year-round.
Its expansion across the Atlantic is unfolding as Air Italy becomes the focus of a years-long campaign backed by three US mainline carriers, which allege that Air Italy's 49% shareholder Qatar Airways is using the smaller carrier as a proxy to expand into the USA.
The US airlines*–*American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines*–*are backed by their unions in the lobbying coalition, called The Partnership for Open and Fair Skies.
Dimitrov, who dismisses the allegations as "baseless", says the campaign by the US carriers will have no impact on how Air Italy expands its North American network.
"Why should it? We are a European airline which is completely compliant with regulations," says Dimitrov.
Despite Qatar Airways' stake in Air Italy, the Italian carrier does not codeshare with the Doha-based carrier on its routes to the USA from Milan, points out Dimitrov.
"It has always been the case," he says. "Let them [the US carriers] prove we've done it."
Air Italy does not carry Qatar Airways' code on any flights, Cirium schedules data show. The Gulf airline carries Air Italy's code on routes between Doha and four Italian destinations, according to schedules.
The campaign by the three US legacy carriers has made it difficult for any potential partnerships, as Air Italy seeks its first interline and codeshare deals across the Atlantic.
"We will be happy to work with American, Delta and United, I have all respect for them. Instead of us fighting, we could work together," says Dimitrov.
The Italian carrier, in the meantime, is in talks with other potential US partners.
"In terms of the interline, we might be able to announce something this year as long as the work gets completed," he says. An interline agreement will be the first step towards forming a codeshare partnership, he adds, saying Air Italy*could potentially partner more than one US carrier.
Given the dominance of the US legacy carriers, Air Italy will not have many other US airlines to choose from if it wants a codeshare partnership with substantial coverage from its year-round US destinations of Miami and New York JFK.
At JFK, JetBlue Airways is likely the best option. New York-based JetBlue, which has partnerships with several foreign carriers, is the second largest airline at the airport after Delta.
American operates more than half of the capacity out of Miami, Cirium schedules data show. Aside from the US legacy carriers, only Frontier Airlines operates US domestic service from Miami.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/a...-north-american-growth-despite-us-pro-458030/
08 MAY, 2019*SOURCE: FLIGHT DASHBOARD*BY: GHIM-LAY YEO*WASHINGTON DC
Air Italy plans to announce at least two additional North American destinations for the summer of 2020, as the airline expands transatlantic service despite opposition from US legacy carriers.
The carrier also hopes to unveil its first US interline partner later this year, chief operating officer Rossen Dimitrov tells FlightGlobal.
He declines to specify the new destinations pending agreements with airport operators, but says one of the two will likely be seasonal. In addition, Air Italy sees potential for one of its two Californian destinations – Los Angeles and San Francisco*–*to convert to year-round service in 2020, says Dimitrov.
The Italian carrier recently added seasonal service to Toronto from Milan Malpensa, after launching seasonal flights from Milan to both Los Angeles and San Francisco. It plans to suspend US seasonal flights later this year in favour of destinations like the Maldives,*Mombasa, Tenerife and Zanzibar.*Air Italy serves Miami and New York John F Kennedy year-round.
Its expansion across the Atlantic is unfolding as Air Italy becomes the focus of a years-long campaign backed by three US mainline carriers, which allege that Air Italy's 49% shareholder Qatar Airways is using the smaller carrier as a proxy to expand into the USA.
The US airlines*–*American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines*–*are backed by their unions in the lobbying coalition, called The Partnership for Open and Fair Skies.
Dimitrov, who dismisses the allegations as "baseless", says the campaign by the US carriers will have no impact on how Air Italy expands its North American network.
"Why should it? We are a European airline which is completely compliant with regulations," says Dimitrov.
Despite Qatar Airways' stake in Air Italy, the Italian carrier does not codeshare with the Doha-based carrier on its routes to the USA from Milan, points out Dimitrov.
"It has always been the case," he says. "Let them [the US carriers] prove we've done it."
Air Italy does not carry Qatar Airways' code on any flights, Cirium schedules data show. The Gulf airline carries Air Italy's code on routes between Doha and four Italian destinations, according to schedules.
The campaign by the three US legacy carriers has made it difficult for any potential partnerships, as Air Italy seeks its first interline and codeshare deals across the Atlantic.
"We will be happy to work with American, Delta and United, I have all respect for them. Instead of us fighting, we could work together," says Dimitrov.
The Italian carrier, in the meantime, is in talks with other potential US partners.
"In terms of the interline, we might be able to announce something this year as long as the work gets completed," he says. An interline agreement will be the first step towards forming a codeshare partnership, he adds, saying Air Italy*could potentially partner more than one US carrier.
Given the dominance of the US legacy carriers, Air Italy will not have many other US airlines to choose from if it wants a codeshare partnership with substantial coverage from its year-round US destinations of Miami and New York JFK.
At JFK, JetBlue Airways is likely the best option. New York-based JetBlue, which has partnerships with several foreign carriers, is the second largest airline at the airport after Delta.
American operates more than half of the capacity out of Miami, Cirium schedules data show. Aside from the US legacy carriers, only Frontier Airlines operates US domestic service from Miami.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/a...-north-american-growth-despite-us-pro-458030/
Non so se già postato...l'articolo di Alex Macheras dopo il volo inaugurale di IG su YYZ.
https://aviationanalyst.co.uk/2019/...e-of-air-italy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://aviationanalyst.co.uk/2019/...e-of-air-italy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Un Dimitrov molto ottimista promette profitti molto presto e 10M di pax nel 2022. Auguri.
Air Italy expects profits 'very soon' despite pilots idled by Boeing crisis
Tracy Rucinski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Air Italy executive has joined a chorus of global airlines hurt by grounded Boeing 737 MAX jets but expects the airline to be profitable “very soon” and carrying five times as many passengers by 2022.
“We have MAX pilots on the ground, sitting there doing nothing,” Chief Operating Officer Rossen Dimitrov told Reuters.
Sardinia-based Air Italy, which launched last year, was using three MAX aircraft to service routes to Sharm El Sheikh, Cairo and Dakar before regulators around the world grounded the fast-selling Boeing Co jets following two fatal crashes.
With a fleet of just 13 aircraft, Air Italy has had to lease two Embraer jets and their crew from Bulgaria Air to cover routes heading into the peak summer travel season. Because Air Italy’s pilots and crew are not trained on the Embraer, their work hours have fallen, Dimitrov said.
Air Italy, which also flies non-stop from Milan to five North American destinations including new seasonal routes to Los Angeles, San Francisco and as of this week Toronto, has 1,146 employees.
Larger airlines have warned that the 737 MAX groundings are hitting revenues and costs by hundreds of millions of dollars. [nL5N2270SV
Still, loss-making Air Italy, owned by Italian holding company Alisarda and Qatar Airways, expects to be profitable “very soon,” Dimitrov said. He declined to provide details but said shareholders “are happy” with a five-year business plan it recently shared that puts it on track to carrying 10 million passengers a year by 2022, versus 2.4 million carried so far.
But Air Italy’s U.S. expansion is facing scrutiny by Washington lawmakers who say it may violate a commitment made by its shareholder, state-owned Qatar Airways with a 49 percent stake, not to add new flights to the U.S. market.
The lawmakers argue the U.S. routes may breach a 2018 aviation agreement between the United States and Qatar meant to address U.S. concerns that Gulf airlines are unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition.
Dimitrov dismissed the allegations as “completely false.” Qatar is a minority investor that does not manage Air Italy’s operations, which are fully compliant with European regulation, he said. It does not have a codeshare agreement with Qatar.
The second largest Italian carrier after Alitalia said it is in talks with other international carriers over codeshare deals but declined to comment on possibilities with JetBlue Airways Corp, which plans to break into the low-fare, transatlantic travel market beginning in 2021.
JetBlue last month asked the U.S. government not to restrict Air Italy from flying to the United States on concerns of retaliation on airline agreements by the European Union.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-pilots-idled-by-boeing-crisis-idUSKCN1SE2P9
Air Italy expects profits 'very soon' despite pilots idled by Boeing crisis
Tracy Rucinski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Air Italy executive has joined a chorus of global airlines hurt by grounded Boeing 737 MAX jets but expects the airline to be profitable “very soon” and carrying five times as many passengers by 2022.
“We have MAX pilots on the ground, sitting there doing nothing,” Chief Operating Officer Rossen Dimitrov told Reuters.
Sardinia-based Air Italy, which launched last year, was using three MAX aircraft to service routes to Sharm El Sheikh, Cairo and Dakar before regulators around the world grounded the fast-selling Boeing Co jets following two fatal crashes.
With a fleet of just 13 aircraft, Air Italy has had to lease two Embraer jets and their crew from Bulgaria Air to cover routes heading into the peak summer travel season. Because Air Italy’s pilots and crew are not trained on the Embraer, their work hours have fallen, Dimitrov said.
Air Italy, which also flies non-stop from Milan to five North American destinations including new seasonal routes to Los Angeles, San Francisco and as of this week Toronto, has 1,146 employees.
Larger airlines have warned that the 737 MAX groundings are hitting revenues and costs by hundreds of millions of dollars. [nL5N2270SV
Still, loss-making Air Italy, owned by Italian holding company Alisarda and Qatar Airways, expects to be profitable “very soon,” Dimitrov said. He declined to provide details but said shareholders “are happy” with a five-year business plan it recently shared that puts it on track to carrying 10 million passengers a year by 2022, versus 2.4 million carried so far.
But Air Italy’s U.S. expansion is facing scrutiny by Washington lawmakers who say it may violate a commitment made by its shareholder, state-owned Qatar Airways with a 49 percent stake, not to add new flights to the U.S. market.
The lawmakers argue the U.S. routes may breach a 2018 aviation agreement between the United States and Qatar meant to address U.S. concerns that Gulf airlines are unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition.
Dimitrov dismissed the allegations as “completely false.” Qatar is a minority investor that does not manage Air Italy’s operations, which are fully compliant with European regulation, he said. It does not have a codeshare agreement with Qatar.
The second largest Italian carrier after Alitalia said it is in talks with other international carriers over codeshare deals but declined to comment on possibilities with JetBlue Airways Corp, which plans to break into the low-fare, transatlantic travel market beginning in 2021.
JetBlue last month asked the U.S. government not to restrict Air Italy from flying to the United States on concerns of retaliation on airline agreements by the European Union.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-pilots-idled-by-boeing-crisis-idUSKCN1SE2P9
Interessante anche che stanno ipotizzando di fare switch sui NB su Airbus .... never say never.
IG ha fatto un contratto con AZ per manutenzione ai 330 della durata di 3 anni se non sbaglio
Dimitrov dismissed the allegations as “completely false.” Qatar is a minority investor that does not manage Air Italy’s operations, which are fully compliant with European regulation, he said.
Anche gli americani, nel loro piccolo, si inca##ano se li prendi per i fondelli…
Allora : un CEO(o equivalente) del Qatar, un COO Bulgaro ,un CTO inglese, un AM Greco, più qualche argentino qua e là… tutti messi lì dal CEO qatariota
A parte il Mr Bean Greco -che pare non gestisca niente (a parte le dimensioni delle torte delle inaugurazioni che va regolarmente a presenziare), ditemi chi di voi crederebbe che , di fronte a questo quadro manageriale, il “minority investor does not manage Air Italy operations”?
Anche gli americani, nel loro piccolo, si inca##ano se li prendi per i fondelli…
Allora : un CEO(o equivalente) del Qatar, un COO Bulgaro ,un CTO inglese, un AM Greco, più qualche argentino qua e là… tutti messi lì dal CEO qatariota
A parte il Mr Bean Greco -che pare non gestisca niente (a parte le dimensioni delle torte delle inaugurazioni che va regolarmente a presenziare), ditemi chi di voi crederebbe che , di fronte a questo quadro manageriale, il “minority investor does not manage Air Italy operations”?
Solite minchiate a profusione che scrivono su simpleflying: "Currently, Air Italy have a fleet of 20 737MAX aircraft sub-leased from Qatar Airways."
A me ha colpito la parte finale evidenziata, sembrerebbe pronunciata da Dimitrov: “I like the Airbus A220, I spoke to colleagues from Swiss Air and they’re very happy with that jet. We would have to make sure it’s something that works for us before committing, but crew commonality is the bottom line, and we fly Airbus long-haul jets too”.
Credevo che di Airbus quell'aereo avesse solo il nome, ma forse mi sbaglio.
Al discorso sulla nazionalità dei manager crede solo giggino mi sa... comunque la nazionalità dei manager non ha nessun senso, questi potrebbero mettere manager di tutto il mondo è decidere le strategie a Olbia o mettere un gruppo di manager italiani e decidere le strategie a Doha.
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