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Initially offer 14 routes, which will expand to 24 in summer
VENICE / SANTIAGO, February 23, 2012 (EuropaPress)
Volotea The new airline, to be launched on 5 April Venice Marco Polo airport, linking the Italian city Alicante, Bilbao, Malaga and Santiago de Compostela, as Spanish destinations and operate a total of 14 routes.
Specifically, will operate three weekly flights on routes to Alicante Venice, Venice, Bilbao (from 23 April) and Venice-Málaga and two on the route Venice-Santiago de Compostela, routes that do not currently operate any other airline.
All other routes will operate initially include five destinations in Italy (Brindisi, Cagliari, Olbia, Palermo and Reggio Calabria) and five others at Bordeaux, Budapest, Krakow, and Thessaloniki Port.
Tickets begin shipping next week at a price of 19 euros each way, including taxes, through all sales channels (Internet, call center, travel agencies and GDS), reported the new 'low cost'.
Marco Polo Airport in Venice will be the first operational base Volotea, making it the first company of the airport by number of destinations offered.
Volotea plans to extend this initial offering of 14 routes to reach 24 routes this summer, so that their operations will increase from 250 flights per month in April to 700 in August. The number of seats offered also be multiplied by three to go from 28,000 to 87,000 in August.
The company, launched by the founders of Vueling and Carlos Muñoz Lázaro Ros, aspires to become a reference paths in short and medium haul flights between Europe through small and medium cities in Europe without having to go through a hub.
Volotea fleet to consist exclusively of aircraft Boeing model 717, equipped with Rolls-Royce engines, 125 seats. Initially start operating with three aircraft.
Volotea expected to hire about 20 workers from British Airways for the summer, when estimated to have a staff of 250 employees. The airline has already received 1,600 job applications.
The company has managed to commit up to 50 million financing of its three funds investors, venture capital fund Axis - Company Official Credit Institute - and Corpfin, which together account for 25% stake in the company and the firm CCMP Capital private equity at 49%, according to Europa Press confirmed related to the operation.
