Originally Posted by
Papa2Charlie
I'm a little confused by the Linate references though. What aircraft operated the route? Was it an Avro RJ? Seems a little unusual to have so many mixed references to CityJet, Air One, AF and KLM.
The LCY-Milan Linate route is now operated by a CityJet aircraft. For some years, since Air One started it, it has been done by an RJ70 leased from the Swedish carrier Transwede and painted in Air One livery, but still Swedish-registered. This has now gone back and a normal CityJet RJ85 operates the route, under joint Air One/Alitalia flight numbers.
The timetable is still that of a Milan-based aircraft operating two trips morning and evening to LCY (which is what makes commercial sense as well), so the CityJet aircraft overnights there, and has a long midday stopover there as well.
Air One have effectively bought Alitalia after some complex financial negotiations so are now in the Skyteam club. Air France/KLM have a minority shareholding in the new merged company.