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 .
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%).
Air One operates the following services (at January
2005 ):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Albenga , Alghero , Bari , Bologna , Brindisi , Cagliari , Catania , Cuneo , Florence , Genoa , Lamezia Terme , Lampedusa , Milan , Naples , Palermo , Pantelleria , Pescara , Reggio Calabria , Rome , Trapani , Trieste , Turin and Venice .
- International scheduled destinations: Nice .
The Air One fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2006):
In March 2006, Air One fleet age is 14.6 years old.
Two
Airbus A320 aircraft were wet-leased in
2004 and returned.
