TRIP REPORT | FIRST Air Italy A330 (ECONOMY) | Rome FCO to Milan MXP | Empty Flight!
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2018
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FIRST TRIP REPORT of the NEW AIR ITALY Airbus A330-200! Join me on this nearly EMPTY Flight from Rome Fiumicino (FCO) to Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) in Economy Class. Seat for this Wing View is 25A.
Air Italy (rebranded - formerly Meridiana) has received it's first Airbus A330-200 with the registration EI-GFX. The aircraft used to fly for Qatar Airways - the airline who recently bought 49% of ex Meridiana. With this large stakehold they also initiated this rebrand and will guide the airline through future expansion! This first Airbus A330 is a new aircraft type to the fleet of Air Italy and so Crew Training flights were conducted - this flight being one of them. I was extremely lucky to be on one of the few flights (most flights were planned to be operated by the A330 but about 95% got changed to a Boeing 737-800 instead). So I actually ended up being onboard the 10th ever revenue flight of the newest addition to Air Italy's fleet - the A330 in the new repaint and the with the new cabin!
You might could make out I am very excited about this aircraft and the fact that I was one of the first/the first travel blogger to fly on this aircraft ;) Don't get me wrong - I paid for the ticket, had the same chances of an aircraft change... - I guess I was simply super lucky :D
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Best wishes to Air Italy. That livery is really great. Thanks for the excellent report. I just subscribed!
thanks a lot - and welcome :D
In older days, when new airline comes up, they had to spend A LOT to promote them, but in these days, plane enthusiasts like us do the things for them{partly}
Thanks so much for that, really nicely done. And i really do love the new Air Italy. I hope they will succeed.
Welcome! Would be great to see them expand further ;)
I love Air Italy's colours! Great video! :D
My congratulation, excellent trip report.
I wish good luck to Air Italy and its new hub.
thank you very much!!
The economy class seats look like Qatar airways ones.....because they are the Qatar's economy class seats (there was a hint, when you fliped the IFE remote around there was still some Arabic writing) and their business class as well.
They are renting/leasing them from Qatar airways to bridge the gap untill their 787's arrive.
So they are still Qatar airways planes but with a Air Italy livery slapped over it.
Anyway nice vid mate.
oh ok - i have never flown on Qatar Airways... (booked 4 flights on them next month ^^).
Thanks for watching ;)
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These were the old seats so you should have a newer product when you fly them :)
Qatar airways owns 49% of air Italy but shares.
I also went to Qatar Airways to go to Rome and Dhaka
Wow echt toller Report
+AviationTube Intercontinental vielen Dank! ;)
Great trip report, I hope the best for Air Italy!
thank you!
Livery looks awesome! Epic trip report, enjoyed it a lot as always :D
thank you!!
That livery looks gorgeous on the A330, i Even subbed because of your quality :p
thanks a lot!
new Trip Reports every week ;)
Oo Nice
Awesome video! I'm taking this on an Air Italy 737 soon!
Amazing trip report!!! Looks like a great airline!! Hope to fly on them one day!! Liked!!
thanks a lot!
Super video!!
It...it..looks beautiful!
i agree!
Great trip reportl. Well done sir.
Nice report ,i liked your video
Hey man, great video. Looks like you've earned a new subscriber :)
Congratulations on being the first reviewer of AirItaly's A-330. Nice review as well.
+RE Ohtz thank you! ;)
Really nice thank you
you are welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video👍 I love their pilot uniforms😬👍
+Giovanni Betti welcome! Yeah - also the cabin crew has a nice uniform!
Great video mate !
thanks a lot!
FCO-MXP Will never be a profitable route. Everybody prefers to take the high speed trains, like Frecciarossa or Italo.
+Riccardo Sivo i completely understand - you waste so much time at the airport (and getting to amd from the airport adds at least another 2 hours to your journey).
Actually this route, like other domestic routes, are mostly considered as feeder for current and future Air Italy international flights leaving from MXP.
I think they used this route to train cabin crew members
AirbusGuy 99 Yes this is surely the main reason.
yes but they operate 3 daily flights with a 737-800 anyways...
Awesome report!
Thanks a lot!
The new livery looks so beutifull! 😍 Hope to fly with them one day!
Great flight ✈️.
sadly they are not with us anymore... (bankrupt)
Gorgeous airplane! Liked
thank you!
Thank you very much I was looking for a video like this representing their a330 as I will fly from Miami to Milano in June
welcome ;)
Hope you have a great flight!
I really admire you’ve blurred peoples faces out... not everyone appreciates being on UA-cam without knowing! Great video!
Yes ;)
Especially the flight crews.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video! =D
thanks a lot!
Great videos bro...keep it up
thank a lot!
Great report mate, it's almost as if you chartered the flight to Milan!
haha :D
Thanks a lot!
Sehr schönes Video.... Danke schön...
Vielen Dank!
Excellent flight report, very accurate, thank you!
I also should have flown with this plane but at last they swapped with an old Meridiana B738.
thank you!
Like I said i was very lucky - my flight the day before also got changed to the 737 - at least now I have both - the A330 and 737 :D
Here in Italy, when we have to travel from Rome to Milan or vice-versa, we prefer to use the train, cause Malpensa and Fiumicino airports are too far from the city center (for example, to reach the center of Milan from MXP you take about 1h). So that's why you find not too many people on this flight!
+Michele Rivoltella i can understand - i would do the same - but i am a plane freak so i flew from Berlin to Rome just to be on this flight (it was special for me) :D
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos and you made a fantastic trip report! Thank you so much for this video! I personally will travel with air italy in September from Catania to Milan Malpensa, and I hope they will use their brand new 737 MAX!
hi, good job, I like this video. I'm from Italy, i think there weren't so many people in this flight because other companies, like Alitalia, offer a lot of flights between MIlan and Rome every day and they're cheaper than Air Italy.
Wow, great TR! I really enjoyed it! You are the first vlogger who uploaded a TR on the new Air Italy! (First, the QR A320 and now the A330!). So lucky! You ask if the interior colors are similar to QR, but actually they haven't been changed! It's a shame that they don't put the antimacassars, since the headrest could become dirty!
Thank you very much!
I didn't fly on the Qatar A320... But yes I am the first vlogger on the A330 I believe :D
Probably they will put the antimacassars when they start "normal" operations.
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos Oops! So sorry! I made confusion with another youtuber who flew the opposite route, so I thought that was you! 😓 Apologise!
no problem :D I also flew on the MXP-FCO but it was operated by the "old" Meridiana 737-800. (not uploaded yet)
Empty flights are the best! It's a shame that this flight was empty- the interior and exterior are very beautiful!
thanks!
I agree the livery and cabin is very nice - as for the flight - probably the train is quicker on this route.
Easyjet e Ryanair hanno già rinunciato ai voli Milano Roma e viceversa, per il semplice motivo che la gente preferisce il treno per via del collegamento rapido in centro città, è comodo il bagaglio lo hai vicino, puoi alzarti e correre per le carrozze per 2 ore e 55 minuti. Io quando andai a Roma presi l’aereo, costava solo 24 € a confronto del Frecciarossa che ne costava 80€ amo gli aerei ed un’oretta in più al check in non è nulla se il viaggio è solo di 1 ora
Very nice, I liked it, amazing to see an A330 flight so empty haha, looks so bizarre
+Casey Planespotting thanks a lot mate!
Guess italians take the train for this route since it is faster. Guess this is the reason Alitalia only uses an E175 on this route 😅
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos you got it right ahahahahahaah
Nice colors Air Italy
i agree!
A330 is a beautiful bird that goes well with every livery. Air Italy has a really good branding indeed, even if Meridiana will be missed.
yes i agree the livery and brand name is very good!
😍😍
I will soon fly to the US on one of Air Italy's A330s, I really look forward to it! Although I'm very interested in planes, that will be my first intercontinental flight.
good video :)
thank you!!
That's an ex qatar a330 also air italy cabin crew has qatar airways uniform. BTW excited for the launch of air italy!
Good to know - have never flown on Qatar yet - but next month I will :D
Nice video, glad to see a new airline in Italy, they need one after all the issues with Alitalia! Just an FYI though, the departure time of your flight is the time you pushback not the time you take off :-)
thanks a lot!
Yes - others have noted that as well - keep that in mind for next time :D
i like the livery looks very modern and doesn't look cheap at all...
i agree - really nice livery!
Nice trip report! By the way, the IFE is identical to that of Qatar airways
Again, extra speed in take off and landing! A nightmare!
Please offer low-cost flights to London! Bravissimi!!! 🇮🇹😘
Air Italy is running a lot of ads in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s the first nonstop service to Italy out of SFO in quite some time. I am thinking about trying it out.
Adoro!
Grazie mille!
😉
Really nice. Numbers of passengers tho, lol! Plane wouldnt even half full even if it was the 737 Max. Check out their 737 Max when it comes into service PlaneSpottingBerlin. Nice Cabin and like the seats. Cants wait for them to get the Dreamliner. We get Neos 767 (soon 787) flights here in Jamaica and also Blue Panorama both from Milan MXP. Means if I wanna get to Italy from Jamaica, dont have to do connected flights.
RIP Air Italy
Great video! I will be interesting to see how this airline does.
What editing software do you use?
+Nickolay Av thank you! I use Camtasia Studio 8
Yes the cabin is Qatar Airways. At least they got a plane with a recent IFE (there are some A330 with much older system in Qatar airfleet).
ok - good to know!
Another note: you write that you are taking off at 10:43, but you are not 23 min delayed. The scheduled time of departure (10:20) should correspond to the estimated Off-Block Time, it means the moment when the aircraft is pushes back. It's not the takeoff time. The delay is calculated from the scheduled to the actual OBT.
Also, at the end, you write "Neos (TUI)" but actually Neos is not affiliated with TUI since 2004.
yep - both of your points are correct ;) will keep that in mind for next time :D
Just Neos is not TUI, although looks may be deceiving. It's property of Italian travel group Alpitour @PlaneSpottingBerlin
I flew the Qatar A330 and it is actually the same plane with different livery.. essentially even the crew uniform is the Qatari a part from the logo which is different
ok - good to know ;)
I will try Qatar Airways next month!
The airplane on the route Milan-Rome aren’t empity because all take the train... it’s more cheap and do Milano to Rome in only 3 hour
Such an empty flight, a little bit jealous but still feel happy for you😂
haha :D - it was really weird - there was probably more crew than PAX onboard!
The livery looks like from Eurowings and the seats from Qatar airways
airitaly was a mix of Meridiana and qatar airways, that's why
I like the livery but reminds me a bit of Eurowings
I would have liked them to have used more red and green on the tail design because it looks a bit pale
If they come to CGN, DUS or FRA I'll give them a try 😊
+sushi777300 thank you!
I don't think they will fly to these airports but who knows ;)
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos I'm sure QR got big plans for them. I'm confident
we'll see :D
Già viaggia in perfetta perdita...
Out of curiosity, was this filmed on 24 May? If so, I was on that A330 D-AIKE out to Frankfurt :D
+Jason Kong yes it was :D
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos niceeeeee 😂
People take the train now. More efficient. Surprised at the good legroom. I thought they were low cost. Business is now flat beds? However their planes are old I think?
About the train it is true if you don't want to go the US for example and catch a connecting flight (cheaper than direct). Business Class is not fully flat I think - but Air Italy will announce it soon I guess.
This aircraft is from Qatar Airways and is about 14.2 years old ;)
Tolles Video und schön erklärt.
Aber ich glaub kaum das sich der A330 auf der kurzen Strecke bezahlt macht. Da würde auch ein A321 oder ähnliches ausreichen.
Danke ;)
Das war ein Crew Training Flight. Die A330 fliegt seit dem ersten Juni nach New York! Ähnliches hat z.B. Swiss mit der 777 gemacht (Zürich-Genf, Zürich-Hannover) oder British mit dem A380 (London - Frankfurt).
Normalerweise setzen die eine 737-800 ein.
I hope it is reliable
Ottimo video. Peccato tu non sia stato in cabina di pilotaggio
Those windows at FCo are not spotters friendly unfortunately.... Great video however
I like the livery of Alitalia slightly better...
the new livery of Alitalia is very nice too - i agree.
i was very disappointed from the FCO windows , you couldn't see anything
haha - me too...
Do you know why many airports like to do that? Its annoying
santinieve 1 I think it's to avoid too much Sun heating, white squares act like a mirror. so the airport can lower the Power of air conditioning and Save Money
exactly - but still i would like to be able to see some aircrafts :D
only 24 passengers 😱 .
i hope QR not like EY in investing to other airlines .
hope they will full passengers in the future .
well they haven't started their long haul flights yet. Also this route would only serve as connecting flight to the main hub Milan - and of course be operated by smaller aircrafts like the 737
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos yeah even though they operated with 737, still terrific if they only carry 24 passengers. btw, great video .
it is not a given that only 24 passengers will show up - on the way there the 737 had more onboard (still not even half full).
Alitalia also runs this route - but only with an E175 :D
Thank you!
In der Tat eine sehr schicke Lackierung...
Man darf gespannt sein, wie sich diese Änderung weiterentwickelt.
Was das ein normaler Regionalzug mit dem du zum Airport FCO gefahren bist?
Wie war der Fahrpreis, falls du das noch weißt?
+Stefan Schäfer sehr schöne Lackierung ja. Das war ein normal Regiozug zum Flughafen ja. Preis war mit 8€ pro Richtung für 1 Station (5min fahren) echt abgehoben....
RIP AIR ITALY
Are they gonna retire there a330-300
Qatar airways owns 49% of air Italy shares.
Qatar airways will be connected to so many european cities with this new airline. Great strategy
And yeah the cabin is 100% from qatar airways
Of course like Qatar because this A330 is from Qatar fleet :)
yes - I just wasn't sure since I haven't been on any Qatar flight yet. Also I thought they will get a new interior...
Why is it so funny to see a Ryan air plane
What airline was that a350 coming into land in Milan?
+Gareth Gibbs Singapore Airlines ;)
This is the Qatar airways new a330 cabin
Ok. I have never flown on Qatar Airways. But next month I will
Basically Qatar airways with different Livery!
Can anyone tell me the name of the music???
34000FT max on this flight & 442kts
usare un a330 per un roma milano mi sembra un po’ uno spreco...
A330 is an huge airplane! Why do they use it for such a short flight?
It was for Crew Training as they will start long haul flights in June!
I need go to francis
The Lufthansa logo is just same as Biman Bangladesh Airlines. By the Way did you know Biman Bangladesh Airlines?
I know them. I even have videos on here. Just have not flown them so far.
First!
I have flown Qatar airbus 330 from milan to doha and its so beautiful, so sad they are removig them to accomodate airbus 350 and bpeing 787
I haven't flown on any Qatar yet but I will do it next monts! On 4 different aircraft types :D
Have you ever flown in business class? And could you tell me some advice on flying business for affordable prices? I see many bloggeers who fly in business class as if it was so simple, most of them i guess are not even that rich!
I have flown in Business class on very few flights - but sometimes you can find really great deals. Or what I mostly do to fly Business class is to buy an Economy Class ticket and then bid for an upgrade (not 100% safe you'll get it but most of the times much cheaper.)
+PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos do you check prices on SKYSCANNER?
R.I.P
Neos has nothing to do with Tui..
oh sorry - my mistake - but it used to be until 2004 haha :D
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos no problem :)
First
Nice video mate!
But seriously since when the sick bag became a waste bag? I see ppl everyday throwing their coke cans into the sick bag. Completely wrong....
Thank you!
sick bag or waste bag - I don't care as I don't use it anyways :D
4.28 lufthansa a330 at FCO🤔
yes. Looks like it was a busy flight and so they upgraded to an A330-300.
PlaneSpottingBerlin ✈ Aviation Videos i think its the first time that appened
Haha! why did you stay in your seat if it was empty! I would have gone to every single window and look at the best seat.
+santinieve 1 i changed from 26A to 25A - which was exactly what wanted ;)
Finally a great company in Italy.....
Wo wollen die mit dem A330 fliegen???
Planned is first New York, Miami - later Bangkok (October) and unconfirmed is Delhi - all from Milan MXP :D