Aero Trasporti Italiani S.p.A (ATI) was an Italian airline headquartered in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adm ...

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. It was founded on 16 December 1963 as a subsidiary of

Alitalia Alitalia - Società Aerea Italiana S.p.A., operating as Alitalia (), was an Italian airline which was once the flag carrier and largest airline of Italy. The company had its head office in Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The ai ...

to take over secondary domestic routes in southern Italy operated by another Alitalia subsidiary

Società Aerea Mediterranea Società Aerea Mediterranea (SAM) was an Italian cargo and passenger airline based in Rome, Italy, which operated between 1928 and 1939 as subsidiary of Ala Littoria and between 1959 and 1981 as subsidiary of Alitalia. It was founded on 26 March ...

History

Alitalia was the major share holder with the 90% of the airline's capital and the remaining 10% held from the state holding company IRI. The first company's President was General Giovanni Buonamico and Captain M. Mainetti was the

General manager A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...

. ATI started operations on 2 June 1964 from its headquarters and main hub at the Naples Capodichino airport with a pair of Fokker F27s aircraft, of which a total of 13 were delivered by 1969; the same year the first 4 Douglas DC-9-32s joined the fleet. Initially, the company flew on the Trieste-Venice-Florence-Rome, Rome-Naples-Palermo-Trapani-Pantelleria, Palermo-Catania-Reggio Calabria-Naples-Rome and Rome-Grosseto-Milan routes. Characteristic of ATI in the years that followed were the east-west connections in southern Italy and the Adriatic route from

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into pr ...

Brindisi Brindisi ( , ) ; la, Brundisium; grc, Βρεντέσιον, translit=Brentésion; cms, Brunda), group=pron is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Histo ...

with some stops. An agreement, which became operational on 15 June 1966, was signed with Kingdom of Libya Airlines in order to run domestic routes in

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and weekly flight to

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Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

and

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with 2 Fokker F27s on

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until 1969. In 1966 the

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label= Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, aft ...

region was added to the system and the fleet reached 7 F27s aircraft and 300,000 passengers transported. In August 1967 ATI took over the management of the subsidiary Elivie from Alitalia, but had to cease its helicopter operations in 1971. The same year were delivered 10 DC-9-32 aircraft and ATI transported 1,800,000 passengers. In 1973 ATI received new 13 Douglas DC-9-32s. In the 80s, ATI gradually replaced its 27 DC-9-32 with 38 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, the Fokker fleet was replaced by 10 regional aircraft

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. In 1994, Alitalia took over its subsidiary ATI completely for economic reasons, although officially part of the Alitalia fleet, several MD-82s flew in the following years still in the ATI livery with the exception of the lettering and the blue colour, that was identical to the Alitalia logo. On 20 March 1981, was formed Aermediterranea as a

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between Alitalia and ATI to replace the private airline

Itavia Itavia was an Italian airline founded in 1958. During the 1960s it became one of the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the destruction of Flight 870, also known as the Ustica disaster. Itavia was hea ...

on the Italian internal scene. Alitalia provided 55% of the capital and ATI the remaining 45%. After the revocation of the

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of Itavia, the flight crew was transferred to Aermediterranea which was merged into ATI in March 1985. Aero Trasporti Italiani was incorporated definitely into Alitalia on 30 October 1994.

Fleet

Accidents and incidents

* * : a Fokker F27, registered as I-ATIR, departed from

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Ital ...

and crashed into a hill about 43 miles from Bari. All 27 people on board died. * ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 I-ATJC Sarroch
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References

External links

ATI — Aero Trasporti Italiani at Airliners.net

ATI — Aero Trasporti Italiani at JetPhotoes.net

ATI -- Aircraft Registration Database lookup

ATI -- New Airline Company start operation's march 2022 Database lookup
{{Airlines of Italy Italian companies established in 1963 Italian companies disestablished in 1994 Defunct airlines of Italy Companies based in Naples Airlines established in 1963 Airlines disestablished in 1994

History

Fleet

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

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