Air Dolomiti to get new aircraft?

During Air Dolomiti's 30th birthday party at the airline's base in Verona, the Lufthansa Group CEO said to the public the Group is exploring the possibilities to add "additional aircraft" at the airline. Although no further details were given, attending media reported a prominent E195-E2 model in Air Dolomiti-livery on display as well as Embraer-executives attending the party.

Currently, the airline operates a fleet of fifteen ERJ195s, connecting Frankfurt and Munich with various destinations in Italy. The airline also regularly serves as a wet-lease capacity provider to Lufthansa on flights out of Munich to other European destinations.

Air Dolomiti was founded in 1989 as Linee Aeree Europee and launched its flights in 1991 as Air Dolomiti. Its first aircraft was the DHC-8-300 of which they operated three. Over the years, the airline also operated sixteen ATR42s, thirteen ATR72s, five CRJ200s, one BAe146-200, five BAe146-300s and two Fokker 100s.

In January 1999, Lufthansa acquired 26% of the airline, increasing this to 52% in April 2003 and to 100% in July 2003.

Photo by Air Dolomiti.