Air One

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Air One

IATA AP	ICAO ADH	Callsign Heron
Founded		1983
Focus cities		Milan Linate Airport Leonardo da Vinci International Airport Turin International Airport
Frequent flyer program		Miles & More
Member lounge		Senator Lounge
Alliance		Lufthansa
Fleet size		30
Destinations		25
Headquarters		Rome, Italy
Key people		Carlo Toto, Lino Bergonzi, Nicola Ruccia
Website: http://www.flyairone.it

Air One is a scheduled and charter airline based in Rome, Italy. It operates an extensive high-frequency domestic scheduled network and international charter flights. Its main bases are Milan Linate Airport, Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, Rome and Turin International Airport.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 Trivia
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

Air One began life as Aliadriatica which was established in Pescara in 1983 to operate as a flying school and provide air-taxi services and later regional scheduled services. With the acquisition of its first Boeing 737-200 in June 1994, Aliadriatica started scheduled and charter operations. On 23 November 1995, the new name Air One was adopted and the airline began operating scheduled flights between Rome and Milan. In 1996, the first full year of operations, 713,000 passengers were carried and the airline expanded rapidly. In 2000 Air One announced a partnership with Lufthansa and nearly all Air One flights are code-shared with Lufthansa. Air One carried 4,951,774 passengers in 2003 (scheduled and charter), an increase of 21.8% over 2002. The airline is owned by Gruppo Toto (99%). It will give up its (public service obligation) routes from Trapani to Catania, Lampedusa and Pantelleria by the end of May 2006.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Destinations

Air One operates services to the following destinations (at October 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Albenga, Alghero, Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Cuneo, Florence, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Pantelleria, Pescara, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Rome, Trapani, Trieste, Turin and Venice.

International scheduled destinations: Athens, Barcelona, Berlin (Berlin-Tegel International Airport), Copenhagen, London (London City Airport) and Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport).

Services between Milan and London City Airport have been launched using an Avro RJ70 aircraft (wet leased from Transwede Airways). The airline is also seeking to start long-haul services in early 2007.

[edit] Fleet

Air One Boeing 737-4Y0 taxiing at Madrid Barajas Airport

The Air One fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[1]:

**One Air Fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers	Notes
Boeing 737-200	3		Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320
Boeing 737-300	6		Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320
Boeing 737-400	22		Replacement aircraft: Airbus A320
Bombardier CRJ-900	6	90
Airbus A320-200	3 (37 orders)	159	Replacing: Boeing 737 fleet

In March 2004, Air One's average fleet age is 11.6 years old ^[2].

Two Airbus A320 aircraft were wet-leased in 2004 and returned.
In May 2006, it has placed an order for 6 Canadair CRJ-900 along with options on a further 4 aircraft.^{[citation needed]}
The airline has received the first of three Avro RJ70 aircraft wet leased from Transwede Airways. The remaining two are to follow in December 2006 and January 2007. It is also in talks to lease two Airbus A340-300 aircraft to begin long-haul flights in 2007 ^[3].
White Eagle Aviation, of Poland, acquired a single ATR 42 on lease and placed it into service on a long-term Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance (ACMI) contract with Air One flying domestic Italian passenger routes^[4].

[edit] Trivia

Even though the official airline name is pronounced in the English way, "Airone" in Italian means heron, which is - by coincidence - the company logo.^{[citation needed]}