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ITA Airways, the successor to Alitalia, with its Rome Fiumicino hub, plus leisure airlines such as Neos.
16 airlines
Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.
Air Italy
IG / ISS
Historic Italian airline: emerged from Meridiana in 2018, with Qatar Airways as co-owner and long-haul from Milan Malpensa – liquidated in February 2020 after just two years.
Air One
AP / ADH
Historic Italian airline founded by Carlo Toto: grew out of Aliadriatica in Pescara, challenged Alitalia from 1995 with Boeing 737s, was closely tied to Lufthansa, became part of Alitalia in 2009 and flew as a “Smart Carrier” until 2014.
Alitalia
AZ / AZA
Italy’s historic national airline: founded in 1946, hub at Rome Fiumicino, in the jet age from 1960 with the DC-8 and Caravelle, later in SkyTeam – after several bankruptcies, flight operations ended on October 14, 2021.
ITA Airways
AZ / ITY
Italy’s network airline and Alitalia’s successor: hub at Rome-Fiumicino, in Star Alliance since April 2026, with Lufthansa as a shareholder and an all-Airbus fleet in deep blue.
Meridiana
IG / ISS
A historic airline from Sardinia: founded in 1963 as Alisarda in Olbia by the Aga Khan, Meridiana from 1991, flying the MD-82 for decades – on March 1, 2018 it became Air Italy.
Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.
Aeroitalia
XZ / AEZ
Young Italian airline based in Rome: a Boeing 737 fleet, a couple of ATR 72-600s, lots of domestic traffic to the islands – and a naming dispute with ITA Airways that briefly threw spotters’ logbooks into confusion.
Volare Airlines
VE / VLE
Historic Italian airline from Thiene near Vicenza: started in 1998 as a charter carrier with the Airbus A320, from 2003 one of Italy’s first low-cost brands as Volareweb.com, bankrupt in 2004, part of Alitalia from 2006 and last in the air in January 2009.
Wind Jet
IV / JET
Historic low-cost airline from Sicily: founded in Catania in 2003, flying Airbus A319s and A320s with a striking orange nose, at times Italy’s largest low-cost carrier – until a failed takeover by Alitalia ended flight operations in August 2012.
Airlines focused on vacation destinations – in scheduled service and for tour operators.
Blue Panorama Airlines
BV / BPA
Historic Italian charter and leisure airline from Fiumicino: Boeing 737s on medium-haul routes, Boeing 767-300ERs to the Caribbean, the low-cost brand Blu-express – and an end in October 2021.
Eurofly
GJ / EEZ
Historic Italian leisure airline: founded in 1989 with Alitalia and Olivetti, based at Milan Malpensa, first MD-80s, then A320s and A330s – on February 28, 2010 it became Meridiana fly.
Neos
NO / NOS
The airline of tour operator Alpitour: an Italian leisure airline based at Milan Malpensa, with an all-Boeing fleet of 737s and 787-9s and long-haul routes to the Caribbean and East Africa.
Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.
Air Dolomiti
EN / DLA
The Italian regional airline of the Lufthansa Group from Verona: an all-Embraer fleet, its own brand instead of the crane and flights from Italy to the hubs in Munich and Frankfurt.
Itavia
IH
Historic Italian regional airline from Rome: founded in 1958, flew domestic routes with Herons, Heralds, Fokker F28s and DC-9s and is inseparably linked to the unresolved crash of flight IH 870 near Ustica in 1980.
SkyAlps
BQ / SWU
The regional airline from South Tyrol: based at the small Alpine airport of Bolzano, an all-De Havilland Dash 8-400 fleet and direct flights from Bolzano to Germany, Austria and many vacation regions.
All-cargo airlines, cargo subsidiaries and express services with their own freighters.
Government flight services and state carriers that fly government members and delegations.
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