Everything about Meridiana totally explained
Meridiana is an
airline based in
Olbia,
Italy. It is Italy's third airline operating domestic and European services. Its main base is
Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport, with hubs at
Catania-Fontanarossa Airport,
Peretola Airport,
Florence and
Verona Airport.
History
The airline was founded as
Alisarda on
March 29 1963 by the
Aga Khan as an air-taxi and charter operator to promote
tourism to
Sardinia. Scheduled services began in
1964 from Olbia. In
1989, 35% of new stock was released to new shareholders to strengthen the company and the name Meridiana was adopted on
3 May 1991. The first international services were operated later in 1991 to
Barcelona,
Paris,
London and
Frankfurt. A 29.95% stake in
Eurofly was acquired in December
2006. Meridiana is owned by Interprogramme (57.19%), SA AgaKhan (17.59%), employees (16.08%), Airfin (in liquidation) (4.51%), Fondazione Cariplo (3.39%) and other shareholders (1.24%). It has 1,358 employees (at March
2007).
During
2004, Meridiana replaced four
BAe 146-200s with four leased
Airbus A319-100s, and has plans for a fifth. In January 2004 it was reported that Meridiana was planning to replace its
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 fleet with 17
Airbus A320-200s.
In
2006 it transported over 4,6 millions pax per year, a 15,7% increase compared to
2005 figures.
Destinations
Meridiana operates services to the following scheduled destinations (as of
December 2007):
Fleet
The Meridiana fleet includes the following aircraft (at
February 2008):
4 Airbus A319-100
2 ATR 42-300 (which is operated by Avanti Air)
9 McDonnell Douglas MD-82
9 McDonnell Douglas MD-83
Meridiana's average fleet age was 16.2 years in January 2008 (External Link
).
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