Air Dolomiti to fly with BAe 146

KLMCityhopper · Post by **KLMCityhopper** » 24 Feb 2005, 10:09

Air Dolomiti, a Lufthansa carrier in Italy has decided to opperate the BAe 146, for future growth. The airline was first planning to aquire 737 equipment, but this has changes to BAe 146 equipment. The airline will slowly replace the CRJ 200 with the BAe 146, but will still fly with the ATR aircraft it currently posseses.

SicilianFalcon · Post by **SicilianFalcon** » 24 Feb 2005, 17:35

Indeed I read thise somewhere soem time ago, Good news ... 146 is one of my fav aircraft

Any ideas where they are coming from?

8) Forza

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 25 Feb 2005, 19:30

Good to see the BAe146 is still alive

Chris

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 25 Feb 2005, 19:41

and just for completeness the 5 Bae146-300 involved are:

E3129/E3149/E3155/E3169/E3193

Rgds
Tony

Robin_Bamps · Post by **Robin_Bamps** » 25 Feb 2005, 19:49

Thanks to all for the information.

I did some research on the frames mentioned by Tony, and found out that E3129, E3169 and E3193 are currently operated by Flightline. E3149 and E3155 are currently stored at FZO.

I think the BAe's will look splendid in the Air Dolomiti livery

Regards, Robin Bamps.

Aerocroatia · Post by **Aerocroatia** » 25 Feb 2005, 20:56

Very strange decision, I don't understand why they are replacing CRJ with BAe-146?

sab319 · Post by **sab319** » 26 Feb 2005, 10:56

Aerocroatia wrote:Very strange decision, I don't understand why they are replacing CRJ with BAe-146?

more seats

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 26 Feb 2005, 11:49

And the leasing costs are probably lower than those of the CRJ's.

Chris

C_J · Post by **C_J** » 26 Feb 2005, 12:40

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairl ... d=00004047
This is how it will look like.
8O

nice colours!

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 26 Feb 2005, 12:50

It looks very nice indeed. Can't wait to see them

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 26 Feb 2005, 12:58

See also:
http://www.smiliner.com/news/current.shtml#0502_5

Regards

Seb.

website-info · Post by **website-info** » 27 Feb 2005, 17:44

Hi All,

The 3 ex Flightline a/c are currently stored at Southend awaiting maintenance and painting, last service for Flightline was Dec/Jan.

Rgds
Tony

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 22 Mar 2005, 13:07

Regards

Seb.

SicilianFalcon · Post by **SicilianFalcon** » 22 Mar 2005, 19:05

Looks great, And I must say they are a very good airline

Very stable but I guess that is down to Lufthansas influence and not the Italian government like AZ. Funny the 2 flourishing carriers in Italy Dolomiti and Air One both LH carriers.

Lets hope an Italian can get it right. Windjet maybe 8)

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 22 Mar 2005, 23:51

Air Dolomiti is fully owned by LH.
Air One is still fully independent (98% owned by gruppo toto). As SicilianFalcon said, Both are working with LH.

Regards

Seb.

B744skipper · Post by **B744skipper** » 23 Mar 2005, 13:00

I agree, the colour scheme does looks nice on the BAe-146.

Does anyone knows on which route these will operate?

Thanks in advance.