“Alitalia ITA”: the new Italian airline

Company will maintain market position premium

The new Alitalia took off this Friday (9) night. At least from a formal point of view. The Italian airline will be called Alitalia ITA, acronym for “Italy Air Transport”.

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“It will be ITAliana because it will have to take Italy to the world”, wrote Paola De Micheli, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, in a Facebook post. 

The four ministers responsible for the dossier – Economy, Transport, Economic Development, Labor – signed the merger decree, which formalized the appointment of senior management: the administrator will be Fabio Maria Lazzerini and Francesco Caio the president. 

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Alitalia belongs to the holding company Compagnia Aerea Italiana (51%) and Etihad Airways (49%), but has been under government intervention since May 2017 because of a liquidity crisis that left it on the brink of bankruptcy.   

Last month, CEO Fabio Lazzerini highlighted that the new Alitalia will maintain its positioning in the premium market, ruling out a foray into the low-cost sector.

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