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| Vol. 23 No. 30 | Tuesday
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ITA Airways O'Hare Launch |
ITA Airways launched a nonstop connection via a cargo and passenger friendly Airbus A330 neo along a ribbon-of an aerial highway between Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Rome Fiumicino. In the picture Emiliana Limosani, ITA Airways Chief Commercial Officer and CEO Volare Aviation Limited; Thomas Botzios, Consul General of Italy in Chicago; and Amber Achilles Ritter, Managing Deputy Commissioner and Chief Commercial Officer for the Chicago Department of Aviation. “We are proud to announce a new nonstop flight between Chicago and Rome,” Emiliana Limosani said “Chicago our seventh gateway in North America, expands our network and consolidates ITA expansion toward the United States, a top market for our company. “Chicago services enhance our efforts to be the reference carrier from the United States to Italy and via Rome to Europe and the Mediterranean.” ITA multiple services connect New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additionally, Toronto-Rome nonstop flights launched on May 10th, bring to 140 the weekly flights between North America and Italy. Last month June 2024 ITA added nonstop flights to Accra and Kuwait City; in July to Dakar and in August to Jeddah. Luca Santagostino (above right), ITA Regional Manager Cargo Americas : “As Italy’s national carrier, ITA Airways Cargo offers shippers unmatched connectivity for the Italian market. “Our hub at Rome Fiumicino is a key strength, combined with an impressive Road Feeder Service across a wide geographical area. “We have also undertaken extensive organizational and strategic advances, having added digital cargo booking on cargo.one.” ATC Aviation Services AG is listed as contact at +1 (718) 917-8827. On May 23rd, the 6th Conference of the Air Cargo Observatory was held at Terminal 5 of Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino. Key executives at a roundtable discussion to analyze demand trends, focusing on strategic sectors for Italian import-export. Antonio Marco Temporini, (above left) VP Cargo at ITA Airways, emphasized the importance of strategic assets in the Cargo development plan, including digitalization, sustainability, and the quality of commercial offerings. Speaking of arrivals and departures, 91 years ago in July 1933, twenty-four Savoia Marchetti S.55 seaplanes commanded by the great aviator General Italo Balbo flew from Rome all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, Illinois, where his triumphant arrival was celebrated as the greatest feat of modern aviation. Italy donated a 2000 year-old column from Ostia to the city of Chicago. Today the Balbo Monument can still be seen along the Chicago Lakefront Trail, a little south of Soldier Field. Geoffrey |
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