Eurofly

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airline = Eurofly

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IATA = GJ
ICAO = EEZ
callsign = E-FLY
company_slogan = "The Italian [air] way of life"
founded = 26 May 1989
headquarters = Milan, Italy
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website = [http://www.eurofly.it/]

Eurofly is a privately owned airline based in Milan, Italy listed on MTA Stock Exchange and controlled by Meridiana Airline. It is Italy’s leading carrier in leisure flights market (scheduled flights and charter flights to tourist destinations) and mainly operates international, medium & long haul, point-to-point flights.

Medium haul activity is centered mainly on operations to Egypt and the Red Sea Riviera (Sharm El Sheikh, Marsa Alam, Hurgada, Luxor, Cairo) Spain (Ibiza, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands) Greece (Mykonos, Santorini, Heraklion), Israel (Tel Aviv). Long haul include some of Italians’ preferred tropical destinations, from Maldives to Sri Lanka, from Dominican Republic to Mexico, Kenya and Zanzibar. Furthermore during Summer Season Eurofly operates non-stop scheduled flights from Rome, Bologna, Naples and Palermo to New York JFK, exploiting the reverse seasonality of NY if compared to tropical destinations and focusing the airline also on incoming traffic to Italy.

History

The airline was established on 26 May 1989 with the aim of selling medium haul flights to tour operators. Eurofly started its operations on 26 February 1990. It was set up with a 45% shareholding by Alitalia in response to the needs of the flag carrier to develop the leisure travel market. The original shareholding was divided between Alitalia (45%), Olivetti (45%) and San Paolo Finance (10%). There have been several changes of ownership since. cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | pages= 78-79 | date= 2007-04-03] As of 2008, Eurofly is partly owned by Meridiana. cite news | title= Italy's Eurofly cancels outstanding A350 order | work= Flight International | date= 2008-01-08]

Long-haul operations started in 1998 and in 2000 Alitalia acquired full control. In 2003 the company was privatized, with 80% being sold to the Banca Profilo Spinnaker fund, which acquired the remaining shares in July 2004. In the same year Eurofly set-up an operations base in Sharm el Sheikh with two Airbus A320-200 aircraft operating flights to several regional airports in Italy. Fact|date=February 2007.

At the end of 2006 Spinnaker solds to Meridiana a 29,95% stake in Eurofly capital. Mr Giovanni Rossi (CEO of Meridiana) became CEO of Eurofly.

In January 2008, two capital increases took place and Meridiana partecipation in Eurofly's capital grew to 46.1%

Destinations

Domestic flights

* Milan-Linate ↔ Rome Fiumicino
* Milan-Linate ↔ Catania,
* Milan-Linate ↔ Naples
* Milan-Linate ↔ Palermo
* Milan-Malpensa ↔ Olbia
* Bergamo ↔ Olbia

Medium Haul - scheduled flights

* Fuerteventura ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Verona
* Paris ↔ Milan-Linate, Napoli
* Santorini ↔ Milan-Malpensa
* Mykonos ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome
* Moscow-Domodedovo ↔ Bologna, Naples
* Sharm El Sheikh ↔ Ancona, Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Rimini, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Pisa, Turin, Venice, Verona
* Cairo ↔ Milan Malpensa

Long Haul - scheduled flights

* Colombo ↔ Milan-Malpensa
* Malé ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Bologna
* Mauritius ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
* Mombasa ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
* New Jork-JFK ↔ Bari, Bologna, Naples, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino, Venice
* Punta Cana ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
* La Romana ↔ Milan-Malpensa,Rome-Fiumicino
* Cancun ↔ Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
* Seychelles ↔ Milan-Malpensa
* Dakar ↔ Milan Malpensa

Fleet

*8 Airbus A320-200
*4 Airbus A330-200

External links

* [http://www.eurofly.it/ Eurofly] (Italian site)
* [http://www.euroflyusa.com/ Eurofly] (U.S. site)
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=GJ&al_op=1 Eurofly Fleet]

References