ALITALIA CITYLINER

Alitalia CityLiner
Alitalia is updating its fleet and on Sept. 26th the airline received its first Embraer 190, for its regional division . The carrier ordered twenty E-Jets, five E190 and 15 E175, at a total cost of 400 million Euro, that will replace the current regional fleet of ten CRJ900 of Air One and six E170 are already in service on the Rome-Milan route and on the Rome-Vienna and Rome-Trieste, they are equipped with "step approach" technology to operate on shorts field such as Florence and LCA.

The regional segment f the company keeps name Alitalia CityLiner that was of Air One. The choice of the E-Jet was a difficult one, based on three parameters, the judgment of customers, the opinions of employees and the overall economic data, and they will be flown on more services than mere feeder routes. 

Strategic cooperation was established with the manufacturer, that provides advanced technology and very reliable delivery and post sale service. The E190 is configured with 100 single class seats of late generation, with 30_31 in. pitch, with an enhanced perception of space.

These airlines will be used both on point_to_point national and international routes, and as an alternate on non-peak hours flights on multi-frequency routes have a strong component of business flyers, who require different option of time, for which flexibility is necessary.

Thus the passengers who fly the E190 on non-peak hours will enjoy the same advanced technology and the same high level of comfort as on the Airbus A320 family.

The current bases of Alitalia CityLiner are Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino, and Venice will soon be added. Turin and Naples are also of much interest.

For connections with airliners of less than 80 seats, Alitalia will keep relying on strategic partnerships with specialized companies that can manage aircraft with haigt cost. The current partners of Alitalia are Darwin Airline and Air Alps, but more partnerships are begin considered. Alitalia wants to operate on smaller airfield both with direct capacity and through partners. Small but distant airports, such a Crotone or Trieste, can be addressed with direct capacity. The carrier stresses  the interest  for smaller destinations, and the fact that with its new regional fleet, Alitalia is able to better connect the Italian territory, reaching those minors airports where it was absent in the pas.