Lauda Air Italia

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Lauda Air Italia
Lauda Air Italy Boeing 767-300ER
IATA code : L4
ICAO code : LDI
Call sign : Lauda Italy
Founding: 1990
Operation stopped: 2005
Seat: Vizzola Ticino
Home airport : Milan Malpensa Airport
Company form: Corporation
Management: Francesco Giuilani
Number of employees: 300
Sales: 120 million euros (2001/2002)
Frequent Flyer Program : LaudaPoints
Fleet size: 3
Aims: Long haul
Lauda Air Italia ceased operations in 2005. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Lauda Air SpA was an Italian airline and sister company of the Austrian Lauda Air , which appeared in the market as Lauda Air Italia .

history

Lauda Air Italia was founded in September 1990, one third each owned by the Austrian Lauda Air , the holding company Volante Srl controlled by Niki Lauda . ( Steering wheel ) and with Parmalat ITC + P SpA joined in 1993, the Company received an Air Operator Certificate and started operation from Milan Malpensa Airport from long-distance tourist destinations in the were Caribbean , South America , Africa , the Maldives and Thailand served . In 1996 a cooperation was started with the second largest Italian package tour operator Gruppo Ventaglio , who joined the company in March 2002. From that moment on, Ventaglio held 40% of the shares, Laudas Volante 60%. On March 31, 2003, Ventaglio took over Lauda's shares and coordinated Lauda Air Italia as a long-haul company with the parallel founded airline Livingston Energy Flight for short-haul routes . In 2005, Lauda Air Italia was fully integrated into Livingstone.

fleet

Lauda Air Italia started operations in 1993 with a Boeing 767-300ER named after Enzo Ferrari . In December 1996 another machine of the same model was added, which was named Ayrton Senna . Further Boeing aircraft were used until the takeover by Livingston, then three Airbus A330-200s until operations were ceased . For a short time, short routes with Canadair Regional Jet and Boeing 737-400 were also in the flight schedule.

Web links

Commons : Lauda Air Italia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Airline Codes December 2006
  2. Niki Lauda sells Lauda Air Italia shares . The standard . March 14, 2003. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  3. a b c d e f g h Lauda Air Italia: La storia ( Italian ) Lauda Air Italia. Archived from the original on November 23, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  4. a b Flight International 5. – 11. April 2005