Ala Littoria
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| Founding: | 1934 |
| Operation stopped: | 1946 |
| Seat: | Rome , Italy |
| Home airport : | Rome-Urbe Airport |
| Fleet size: | 140 |
| Aims: | Europe, Africa, Middle East, South America |
| Ala Littoria ceased operations in 1946. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Ala Littoria SA was the name of the national airline of fascist Italy .
history
Ala Littoria was created in August 1934 through a state-directed merger of the airlines
- SAM - Società Aerea Mediterranea (founded in Rome in 1928 , state-owned, de facto predecessor of Ala Littoria ; from 1959 to 1976 active again as Alitalia's charter company )
- Transadriatica (founded in Ancona in 1925 , taken over by SAM in 1931)
- SANA - Società Anonima di Navigazione Aerea (founded in Genoa in 1925 )
- AEI - Aero Espresso Italiana (founded in 1923 in Rome)
- SISA - Società Italiana Servizi Aerei (founded in 1922 in Lussinpiccolo ).
In 1935, Ala Littoria also took over Adria Aero Lloyd (Albania routes) and Nord Africa Aviazione (founded in 1931). The airline ALI ( Avio Linee Italiane ), which belongs to the Fiat group , did not take part in this merger process.
Ala Littoria had an extensive network of routes in Italy. Flying boats from the company Savoia Marchetti were used on many routes . Abroad, the company mainly served destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean region. The connections to Albania and the Italian colonial areas in North and East Africa were particularly well developed . The subsidiary LATI ( Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane ) did not start scheduled services to South America until 1939 , although Italy had capable flight pioneers in this area with Italo Balbo , Arturo Ferrarin , Francesco De Pinedo and others. Some of the larger aircraft formations had flown across the Atlantic and also to Asia and Australia.
During the Second World War , the Italian military used the airline's fleet, which had grown to more than 140 aircraft, for air transport services. From 1946, Alitalia continued the work of Ala Littoria as a flag carrier .
Surname
The name Ala Littoria is made up of the Italian words ala ( Eng . "Wing") and littorio ( Eng . " Lictor "). The airport Rome-Urbe , which was the home airport of the airline at the time, was named after the bundle of lictors during fascism .
Incidents
Ala Littoria recorded a total of 15 incidents, ten of which were fatal.
- On April 30, 1938, a Savoia-Marchetti SM.73 from Ala Littoria crashed around 100 kilometers from Rome during a flight from Tirana via Brindisi to Rome . In the accident near Maranola , all nineteen inmates were killed.
See also
Web links
- Details on airline timetable images (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paolo Ferrari: L'aeronautica italiana: una storia del Novecento. Franco Angeli Editore, Milan 2005. p. 76
- ^ Transadriatica on timetableimages.com
- ↑ Details on airticketshistory.com
- ^ Aero Espresso Italiana on timetableimages.com
- ↑ La SISA - Società Italiana Servizi Aerei - e la linea aerea no. 1 , on expo.fsfi.it
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on December 17, 2014.
- ^ The Italian Disaster. Flight International , May 5, 1938, p. 442 , accessed May 3, 2011 .
