Hello. We are looking for flights from Bucharest to Rome at the end of April. Aeroitalian offers a flight with a good price and schedule, but I have never heard of them (like many other low-cost airlines in Europe). What research I could find stated that the airlines was only recently launched in the middle of 2022 and is still in the process of expanding its route network. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this airlines?
Thank you
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Firenze, Italy
1534 posts
If you are talking about ITA, it is what is left of Alitalia, I have been on several internal flights and it works quite well using FCO as an hub. If you are talking about Aeroitalia, my employer made the big mistake of booking two charter flights for a 160 persons group (a choir and an orchestra doing a concert tour) in July 2022, that was the very first month the airline was in business. The price was very interesting, but we did not realize they were working a tight schedule on a single airplane. I traveled on my own to Malaga and I was not on the first flight, that had several hours delay, but I was on the return flight, Malaga to Pisa. Basically we had to leave from Malaga in late morning, we left around 6am of the following day instead. In the middle of the night, half sleeping on an airport chair, I realized that, having a single airplane, it could easily be tracked on flightradar, so I saw that while they had promised to keep the airplane on ground at Malaga during the night, they had flown it to Frankfurt Hahn, Tenerife, Rome, Bari, Palermo, Tabarka (Tunisia), Rome and at last to Malaga instead. So we were kept waiting for 18 hours and, as a form of assistance, we got only two sandwich vouchers. A scheduled flight to/from Sicily after our flight was delayed several hours as well. The matter is now in court as we have sued them for damages, having had to pay an extra working day to 160 persons. - There was an urban legend that their plane had been required at the last minute by the Italian ministry of internal affairs to pick up unlawful immigrants and bring them back to Tunisia, and it looks compatible with the very strange itinerary, and they could not say no to the ministry. But I do not know if it is true. - Now that they have 11 airplanes maybe they can keep their times better, but frankly having to wait 18 hours for a charter does not convey the idea of accurate organization.
Posted by
OP
Florida, USA
230 posts
Thank you Lachera. Appreciate your comment. Not a good story for a start-up company. With only 11 aircraft we will look at other options.