Draft:Aeroitalia Regional

Aeroitalia Regional
Founded	2021
Fleet size	2
Parent company	Aeroitalia

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AeroItalia Regional (IATA: KS, ICAO: KON) (previously AirConnect) is a Romanian airline headquartered in Bucharest Otopeni. It operates a fleet of two ATR 72s.

History

AirConnect period

AirConnect was founded in 2021 and commenced operations in August 2022 with an initial fleet of one ATR 72-600, later increased to two of the model. In their early days of operation, the airline announced a codeshare partnership with the low-cost carrier Blue Air. Less then a week after this announcement Blue Air was forced to suspend operations^[1] for at least the next 6 days after legal actions by the romanian authorities, later resulting in the company's banckrupcy. AeroItalia aquired 93.86% of AirConnect in November 2023 after the company reported a net loss of 4.2 million euro in 2022^[2]

AeroItalia Regional

In april 2024 AirConnect changed its name to Aeroitalia Regional^[3]. Aeroitalia

Fleet

Aeroitalia Regional operates a fleet of two ATR 72-600 in a 68 seats all economy configuration^[4]. Since May 2024 the airline employed the services of Air Lease copmpany 4 Airways for their two Boeing 737-400.

Future

Aeroitalia announced in the last days of september 2024 that it will introduce a third aircraft in Aeroitalia Regional's fleet. This third aircraft will be an Embraer 175 leased from ALC^[5] and it will replace the planned third ATR.

References

[1] ttps://www.ch-aviation.com/news/119113-romanias-blue-air-suspends-operations-blames-the-state

[2] ttps://www.ch-aviation.com/news/133714-aeroitalia-signs-mou-to-buy-romanias-airconnect

[3] ttps://www.planespotters.net/airline/AirConnect

[4] ttps://air-connect.com/en/about

[5] ttps://italiavola.com/2024/09/23/aeroitalia-avra-a-breve-il-primo-e175/

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