ITA Airways’ first A330, registration EI-EJP, received the Italian airline’s new livery, a beautiful and striking metallic blue.
The ITA A330 unit was painted in Shannon, Ireland, by International Aerospace Coatings (IAC). It is worth noting that so far, the A319 and A320, both narrow-body aircraft, were the only ones to have received this special shade.
#BREAKING: The first @Airbus A330 painted in @ITAAirways full livery was spotted in Shannon today.
This is the first wide-body plane in the airline’s fleet to be painted in the metallic blue scheme, following the A320 and A319.
📸: Adrian Kissane pic.twitter.com/QjY0YK4tnx
— Enrique Perrella (@Enrique77W) February 16, 2022
There is still no certainty as to the number of units that ITA will have this livery with these colors, as the company recently indicated its intention to have the Alitalia brand flying again as part of its airline group.
As reported by our partner site Aeroin, negotiations are underway with other airline groups, such as Lufthansa, to acquire shares in ITA, something that still creates uncertainty as to how this could affect the recently launched company, which had its start-up as recently as October 2021.
See also: Trip Report: flying ITA’s «Superior» class from Milan/Linate to Catania
According to its website, this is ITA’s planned network:
ITALY
Brindisi, Bologna², Bari, Catania, Rome Fiumicino, Florence³, Genoa, Milan Linate, Naples, Palermo, Pescara, Reggio Calabria, Lamezia Terme, Trieste, Turin, Venice and Verona²
EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDDLE EAST
Algeri, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Cairo, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg², London Heathrow, Madrid, Malta, Munich, Nice, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, Sofia⁵, Stuttgart², Tirana, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Zurich
REST OF THE WORLD
Boston¹, Buenos Aires³, Sao Paulo³, Tokyo Haneda², New York, Los Angeles³, Miami¹
Additionally, thanks to the codesharing flights in cooperation with our partner airlines, it is possible to fly to many other destinations in Europe and in the rest of the world from Italy, via Rome.
EUROPE
Croatia (Split and Zagreb), Latvia (Riga – also from Milan with a direct flight), Luxembourg, Czech Republic (Prague¹), Romania (Bucharest, Baia Mare, Cluj Napoca, Iasi, Oradea, Satu Mare, Suceava, Timișoara), Serbia (Belgrade – also from Milan with a direct flight).
REST OF THE WORLD
Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi – also from Milan with a direct flight).
¹ Destinations available from March 2022
² Destinations available from April 2022
³ Destinations available from June 2022
⁴ Destinations available from July 2022
⁵ Destinations available from August 2022
