Italynews - The aviation bulletin

ALITALIA further three MD82s will leave tomoprrow Italy to Malta on the way south to South Africa. They are I-DAWO/G/Q.

ALITALIA CARGO, tomorrow MD11SFs EI-UPE will be ferried back in US with flight number AZA8924 from Rome FCO to Dothan, Alabama via New York JFK.

BLUE PANORAMA, B767/300ER EI-CZH is now in service since last weekend.

They had a technical fault on a B737/300s who have caused 18 hours of delay. They have replaced it with a back up airliner leased in ACMI from another carrier. Route planned was a Roma FCO-Marsa Alam-Rome FCO. Passengers were assisted with meals and night paid by the airline.

DELTA AIR LINES continue to reduce and drop weekly frequencies on Pisa-New York JFK. Suspended by next coming week until the first days of February 2009, with at least 3 weeks of flights wholly dropped. With effect Feb 8 to March 9 2009 the route is operated 3xweek and non as scheduled until some days ago with 4xweek.
Low bookings affects this route in winter and especially when traffic is lowest for leisure demand.

EASYJET will open 4xweek Liverpool-Naples by summer 2009 on mo-we-fr-su.

EUROFLY passengers stranded in Mombasa and Zanzibar after that fault is occured to an A330s were lifted back thanks to an Air Italy B757/200s.

JADE CARGO is now suffering company rebuilding and network is affected from the new asset on the way to be designed by Lufthansa Cargo. Some gateway in Italy can disappear. Brescia is one probably in the list where until now the load factor was not ever excellent.

MEA will offer in summer 2009 four weekly flights to Milan Mxp and Rome FCo with separate schedules:
Milan MXP-Beyrut is 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su
Rome FCO-Beyrut is 4xweek on tu-th-sa-su
Flight equipment is A320s on all the routes.

MYAIR is currently leasing in ACMI different airliners from a Mistral Air B737/300s, Itali Airlines MD82s and JeTran Air MD82s to cope network necessities.

NORWEGIAN by Apr 2 2009 will open Rome FCO-Stockholm 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su with B737/800s.

WINDJET is now dropped the route Forlì-Olbia. This route announced when new hub in Forlì was released by the press conference is disappeared from many days on the airline booking engine.
Route Forlì-Barcellona and scheduled twice a week by March 29 2009 is now planned to go by June 20. Its almost three months of stop where flights loaded in the past on booking engine now are disappeared.

WIZZ will add the route Treviso-Sofia by March 30 2009 on tu-th-sa. Its operated with a 180 seater A320s and it copes the hole left on the route by MyAir disappeared recently on Venice-Sofia.