Volareweb.com

Volare SpA (formerly also Volareweb.com ) is an Italian airline based in Milan and a subsidiary of Alitalia. You currently flies exclusively on their behalf and route network.

History

First years as Volare Airlines

Volare Airlines was founded in 1997 by a group of northern Italian entrepreneurs in Thiene and took on 3 April 1998 the charter flight operations with aircraft of type Airbus A320. Within a short time the route network could be extended to various destinations in Western and Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Due to good business performance, it was decided in 1999 to offer scheduled flights, especially between the Italian mainland and Sardinia. From the hub in Venice, Milan and Rome was offered soon to scheduled flights to several destinations in Italy and Europe.

In August 2000, the Volare Group Holding was founded, under whose umbrella beside Volare Airlines also the newly acquired charter carrier Air Europe worked. Air Europe was founded in 1989 and offered up to cessation of the end of 2008 charter and scheduled flights to the Caribbean and East Africa. The Volare Group in 2003 had almost 1,400 employees and had a total of 24 aircraft. In the charter sector, she was with a market share of 38 % of the market leader in Italy.

Realignment as Volareweb.com

As part of the crisis in the aviation industry after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 occurred the first problems in the traditional division also Volare Airlines. Since at the same time in Europe, the low cost airlines to operate profitably, the Volare Group opted to establish their own low-cost airline. On 5 February 2003 Volareweb.com was founded and adopted on 30 March 2003, flight operations. Due to the success in this business the entire airline operations Volare Airlines was taken over by Volareweb.com few months later.

However, competition in the Italian low cost segment should become more severe: The established budget airline Ryanair took on 28 January 2004 with Rome Ciampino next to Milan -Bergamo, the second Italian base in the flight program and sat on low values. In 2004 Volareweb.com could not take advantage of the crisis of the Italian state airline Alitalia and came himself in financial distress. The crisis in Volareweb.com became clear in a few weeks in October 2004: After 2004, new routes were announced on 15 and still last on September 24 for the October 31, was born on 12 October, the plan for one of these new routes ( Milan -Bucharest ) abandoned. From 16 October 2004, in Germany compounds were adjusted, where the passengers were not informed until the day before it.

Presented on 19 November 2004, the Volare Group (including Air Europe ) Flight operations and to file for bankruptcy. Subsequently, the airline was deprived of pilot's license for a month. As in the case of Alitalia, the Italian government granted indirect support for a new beginning. On 1 June 2005 Volareweb.com resumed with first two Airbus A320 -200 from Milan Linate from flight operations to Naples, Bari, Brindisi and Catania. Air Europe also went back with long-haul flights at the start.

Volare SpA as a subsidiary of Alitalia

In December 2005, a takeover battle for the Volare Group, Alitalia was able to win against the bitter resistance of Air One began. All companies Volare Group and the holding themselves were taken on 14 April 2006, the new corporation Volare SpA, Alitalia heard. Under the brand name Volareweb.com until January 12, 2009 by Milan - Malpensa Cheap flights to Italian and European destinations were offered. To the long-haul sector continues to care Air Europe, which, however, in December 2008, ceased flight operations. Since then, the aircraft of Volare SpA are only used in the route network of Alitalia under their name.

Fleet

As of January 2014, the Volare Airlines fleet consists of a plane: