Lufthansa Italia
Milan -Malpensa
- Thomas Lindner ( CEO)
- Wolfgang Jehle (CFO )
Lufthansa Italia SpA was an Italian subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, headquartered in Milan, based on the Milan Malpensa Airport.
History
The German Lufthansa AG and its main Lufthansa Passage took on 2 February 2009 under the brand name Lufthansa Italia flight operations from Milan - Malpensa with two aircraft on. With the new subsidiary Lufthansa planned to tap into the lucrative North Italian market better, the equipment of the aircraft and in-flight service were also matched to the Italian market, as Italian espresso was served, for example, in business class. However, there was no correlation between the privatization of Alitalia and the foundation of Lufthansa Italia. However, Alitalia has reduced its flights from Milan -Malpensa drastically as a result of their own foundation.
Successive should be a separate airline Lufthansa Italia SpA the routes of Deutsche Lufthansa take over. January 11, 2011, Lufthansa Italia had its own Italian Air Operator Certificate and has since been included in the list of Italian airlines in the aviation authority ENAC.
Following the realignment of the Italian business, the parent company decided in May 2011 to continue the Lufthansa Italia brand only until 29 October 2011. In turn, the range of Lufthansa and Air Dolomiti itself should be expanded to the Italian market.
The last scheduled flight of Lufthansa LH3627 Italia landed 29 October 2011 at 16:35 clock coming from Palermo to Milan Malpensa Airport, which was carried out using the Airbus 319-100 with the registration D - AKNJ.
Destinations
Lufthansa Italia has taken on February 2, 2009 by the Milan -Malpensa Airport flights to Barcelona and Paris -Charles de Gaulle. On March 2, 2009 Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest and Madrid followed. Since March 29, 2009 Lufthansa Italia flew addition to Lisbon and London Heathrow, the frequencies to Brussels were increased ( the route has now been set, however ). Seasonal landed at Milan -Malpensa, among others, Bari, Naples, Olbia and Palermo. Since 31 October 2010, Prague was served. In the meantime, also Stockholm and Warsaw were flown from Milan.
From 1 April 2009, Lufthansa Italia went on within Italy compounds in direct competition with Alitalia. The connection from Milan to Rome was, however, abandoned even before the setting of the service.
Fleet
As of January 2011, the fleet of Lufthansa Italia consisted of eight aircraft that were operated by Lufthansa Passage:
- 8 Airbus A319 -100 ( 138 seats in two classes)
Five of these aircraft ( D- identifiers AKNF to D - AKNJ ) were from the Lufthansa subsidiary German Wings, three others ( codes D AILF, D- and D- AILH AILI ) Lufthansa Passage itself These were taken from the Munich hub. Two more A319, which had asked Lufthansa Passage available since July 2009, again in the regular service of Lufthansa, as a meantime by bmi, Lufthansa Italia A319 operated there been transferred back.
The aircraft wore, as in the Lufthansa common city names as given names. The first two aircraft were "Milano" ( D AKNJ ) and " Varese " called (D - AKNG ), further called " Torino " ( D AKNF ), " Bologna " ( D AKNH ), " Genova " (D - AKNI ) and "Roma" ( D AILI, previously " Ingolstadt "). A plane (D - AILH ) has retained its Lufthansa name " Norderstedt ".