New Alitalia celebrates 1st birthday; 21 million passengers in 2009 across 73 destinations

This week saw the first anniversary of the launch last January of the ‘new Alitalia’, the airline created by private investors out of bits of the old Alitalia, Air One and Volareweb.

According to statistics provided by AEA, between 13 January 2009 and the end of November the new airline carried just over 19.6 million passengers at an average load factor of 65.4%. The load factor figure compares poorly with major legacy carrier rivals such as Air France (78.8%), British Airways (78.2%), Iberia (79.9%), KLM (81.4%), Lufthansa (77.9%) and even SAS (71.7%)

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