Meridiana
Former Privately owned Italian airline headquartered in Olbia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Italian airline. For the star, see Alpha Coronae Australis.
Meridiana Fly S.p.A., operating as Meridiana (formerly named Meridiana S.p.A.),[1] was a privately owned Italian airline headquartered in Olbia with its main base at Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport. It operated scheduled and charter flights to domestic, European and intercontinental destinations from several Italian bases. Some of its operations were carried out by the old Air Italy under the Meridiana brand. It was owned by Qatar Airways through AQA Holding (49%) and Alisarda S.p.A. (51%), who rebranded the airline as the new Air Italy effective 1 March 2018.
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Founded | 29 March 1963; 61 years ago (1963-03-29) as Alisarda | ||||||
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Commenced operations | May 1966 (1966-05) as Alisarda 2 May 1991 (1991-05-02) as Meridiana (Meridiana S.p.A.) February 2010 (2010-02) as Meridiana Fly (Meridiana Fly S.p.A.) April 2013 (2013-04) as Meridiana (Meridiana Fly S.p.A.) | ||||||
Ceased operations | 28 February 2018 (2018-02-28) (reorganized into a new Air Italy) | ||||||
AOC # | EY0F937F | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | Meridiana Club (Part of Avios Loyalty program) | ||||||
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Fleet size | 11 | ||||||
Destinations | 66 | ||||||
Parent company | AQA Holding | ||||||
Headquarters | Olbia, Sassari, Italy | ||||||
Key people | Francesco Violante, President | ||||||
Website | meridiana |
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