Air Italy to suspend 3 transatlantic routes over the winter

Air Italy will stop flying to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto this winter in favour of serving what it terms "counter-seasonal" destinations: the Maldives, Mombasa, Tenerife and Zanzibar. The carrier will continue to operate its transatlantic services to Miami and New York from Milan Malpensa. A service to Bangkok has already been axed. The airline's new business-class product was rolled out on the Milan-LA route at launch earlier this year. The offering is to be made available on flights to the Maldives, Miami, Mombasa, New York, Sharm el-Sheikh and Zanzibar. Air Italy is planning to base a number of aircraft at overnight "outstations" in Cagliari, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Palermo and Rome this winter, in order to facilitate "optimised" daily frequencies between those cities and Malpensa. <br/>