Alitalia (AZA, Rome Fiumicino) has started operations as a new commercial entity on January 12 as scheduled. Its low-cost carrier subsidiary Volareweb.com (VE/Milan Malpensa) has stopped own scheduled operations and is now operating its two remaining A320-200s on behalf of Air One (AP/Rome Fiumicino) and Alitalia. All cargo operations have been suspended and the MD-11F freighters returned to the lessors. Alitalia has announced several network changes already: Bologna Marconi-Catania: 2x daily A320-200 service starting on March 29 operated by Air One Bologna Marconi-Palermo: 2x daily A320-200/CRJ-900 service starting on March 29 operated by Air One and Air One CityLiner (CYL/Rome Fiumicino) Genoa-Catania: daily CRJ-900 service starting on March 29 operated by Air One CityLiner Milan Linate-Bucharest Otopeni: 2x daily EMB-170 service starting on March 29 operated by Alitalia Express (XM/Rome Fiumicino) Milan Linate-Warsaw: daily A319-100 service starting on March 29 Rome Fiumicino-Thessaloniki: 3x daily CRJ-900 service starting on March 29 operated by Air One CityLiner Rome Fiumicino-Valencia: daily MD-82 service starting on March 29 It will however give up its Rome Fiumicino-Prague route on March 28 and will only continue to codeshare on CSA Czech Airlines (OK/Prague) between the two cities. Alitalia has terminated its codeshare agreements with AeroMéxico (AM/Mexico City), Air China (CA/Beijing), Brussels Airlines (SN/Brussels), Cyprus Airways (CY/Larnaca), JAL – Japan Airlines (JL/Tokyo Haneda), Kuwait Airways (KU/Kuwait), Luxair (LG/Luxembourg), Malaysia Airlines (MH/Kuala Lumpur Intl), Malev (MA/Budapest) and Ukraine Intl Airlines (PS/Kiev Borispol) while Air One has cancelled similar agreements with Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) and Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl).
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