Bankrupt Alitalia plans boosting its flights in June
Alitalia said it would resume its nonstop Rome (FCO)-New York (JFK) service, FCO flights to Madrid and Barcelona and fly direct between Milan (MXP) and southern Italy from June 2, boosting June flight activity by 36% over May.
Alitalia filed for bankruptcy three years ago. After a fruitless search for an investor, the Italian state moved to nationalize the carrier to save it at the peak of the coronavirus crisis and set out plans to invest at least €3 billion ($3.2 billion) in relaunching the airline.
Italy’s economic development minister Stefano Patuanelli has previously said Alitalia would be relaunched in June with a reduced fleet of around 90 aircraft.
Those extra flights will be in addition to eight daily services to FCO it is already operating and Alitalia will also add four daily flights to/from Cagliari (CAG), Alghero (AHO) and Olbia (OLB), all on Sardinia.
In June and July it will also continue cargo services to China, with 25 cargo services scheduled for June, following 15 operated in March and April and 24 planned for May.
Alitalia said that in April, it operated about 10% of flights compared to the same month of the previous year and about 12% in the first half of May.