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The Airline announces changes to its governing Board
Verona, 29th July 2024 - Air Dolomiti, the airline of Lufthansa Group, announces new appointments to its Board of Directors.
After two years, Jens Ritter, CEO of Lufthansa Airlines, is stepping down as non-executive Chairman of Board of Directors.
He will be succeeded by Jörg Eberhart, already former member of the Board of Directors of Air Dolomiti and Head of Strategy & Organizational Development of the Lufthansa Group. The appointment will be effective as of 1 August.
Jörg Beißel, current CFO of Lufthansa Airlines, also joins the Company's Board of Directors as a member.
The role of Board member and CEO of Air Dolomiti remains confirmed for Steffen Harbarth, who leads the carrier since January 2022 on a positive path of growth and expansion.
The airline ended 2023 with a record 3 million passengers carried, in just a few years it has structured and implemented an impressive development through an ambitious fleet increase. Today Air Dolomiti counts 24 Embraer aircraft with the prospect of reaching 26 over the next few months and a consequent increase in personnel that has brought it to 1000 employees divided between the bases in Verona, Venice and Florence.
An increasingly European positioning that strategically continues to feed the Munich and Frankfurt hubs, departing from the most important Italian and European cities, harmoniously integrated into the Lufthansa Group's flight system.
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Verona, 10th June 2024 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of Lufthansa Group, has obtained from the EMAS Italy Section of the Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee the renewal with extension of its registration to the EMAS system, valid until 9 November 2026;
EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is an eco-label created by the European Community for public and private organizations that commit themselves to evaluating and improving their environmental performance.
Air Dolomiti has adopted an environmental management system in accordance with the EMAS regulation in order to achieve continuous improvement in its environmental performance. Following the verification of the management system and the validation of the environmental statement, carried out by an accredited verifier, the Committee renewed the registration of Air Dolomiti, which was the first Italian passengers airline to obtain it in 2021.
Adherence to EMAS ensures the introduction of eco-processes, reduces the incidence of environmental impacts, provides certainty of compliance with environmental regulations and encourages the growth of technical and scientific knowledge for the ongoing improvement of its performance indicators.
“EMAS registration is a voluntary environmental certification tool: although it is not compulsory, we strongly believe in this system, which we have been keen to activate and maintain over the years as a guarantee of our commitment to joint action to protect the environment. The EMAS logo on our environmental statement is proof of our determination to develop and support actions and projects aimed at building a sustainable future: for this reason we are proud to renew our participation", says Steffen Harbarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti.
Fleet grows, recruiting increases and the range of European destinations expands
Verona, 27th Feburary 2024 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline company of Lufthansa Group, resolutely continues its growth path through an ambitious increase in its fleet, which now numbers 21 aircraft: 17 Embraer 195s with 122 seats and 4 Embraer 190s with 108 seats.
A constant evolution, planned and targeted over the long term: 2024 begins with a well-defined schedule of new additions throughout the year, in April, May and July, reaching 25 aircrafts in November.
The expansion of the fleet has led to a significant increase in the company's recruitment, which now employs 1000 people, including ground and flying personnel.
Recruitment campaigns for flying staff at the Verona headquarter and at the two new bases in Venice and Florence opened last summer, are still ongoing and will continue to accompany Air Dolomiti's development.
Alongside the growth in fleet size and number of employees, the airline has also undergone qualitative development. While still serving as a feeder carrier for Italian traffic to the German hubs of Munich and Frankfurt, it has also been entrusted by the Lufthansa Group to operate several European routes.
The positioning towards Europe represents an evolution of Air Dolomiti's role: while maintaining its identity, it has expanded harmoniously with other carriers in the Group, demonstrating its ability to tackle new market challenges. Air Dolomiti operates many European routes from German hubs such as the recent launch of flights from Frankfurt to London City and Geneva.
"To date we have transported 3 million passengers - an absolute record for our company. We have increased our fleet, hired new colleagues, and feel ready to enthusiastically embrace our new role and the challenges that come with it, continuing our development on European routes. Our mission is to grow and position ourselves securely in the market, without forgetting our values, but at the same time embracing all the innovations that growth brings; A complex and fascinating sector such as air transport requires solid foundations, but also the willingness and imagination to react quickly to changes. This has always been Air Dolomiti's strong point: consistency in our approach and planning, with the aim of becoming increasingly reliable and attractive, both for our passengers and for those who choose to work with us", says Steffen Harbarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti.
Once again, the airline will be surprising passengers during the Christmas holidays with a delicious special on-board menu
Verona, 19th December 2023 - Business class passengers of Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of the Lufthansa Group, will be enjoying the aromas and flavours of Italy. The airline has decided to partner with Osteria di Passignano to create the Christmas menu that will be served to business class passengers from 21 December to 7 January 2024.
The menu will be created by Matteo Lorenzini, who since 2021 has been the Chef of Osteria di Passignano, a restaurant owned by the Antinori family. Lorenzini’s signature cuisine combines technique and authenticity to create dishes that express the deep passion behind every single creation.
Located in the heart of Chianti Classico, Osteria di Passignano offers a simple cuisine conceived in an environment with a strong Chianti identity. The restaurant’s philosophy is based on the search for the highest quality and respect for tradition, combined with a desire to innovate. These values have allowed Osteria di Passignano to maintain a Michelin Star since 2007.
At different times of the day, the following will be served on board: Torta del Nonno cake, with chocolate, ricotta, almond and Vinsanto, for a sweet breakfast; lettuce and prawn rolls, chickpea and sesame cream for lunch; savoury maritozzo with buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomato confit and Taggiasca olive cream for a delicious afternoon break; and meat pie with artichokes and vinaigrette for dinner. Each delicacy will be served in the modern, elegant white porcelain of business class onboard service.
Three selected wines from the Marchesi Antinori estates will accompany the eclectic dishes.
"The culinary journey is one of exploration, and when this experience takes place in flight, we are the ones who accompany our passengers across borders that are not only geographical but also sensory", said Steffen Harbarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti. “Our historic partnership with Marchesi Antinori, a family that has handed down their passion for wine production over 26 generations, and with Michelin-starred restaurant Osteria di Passignano, offers moments of pure pleasure drawing on the Italian tradition.”
Green light for UNI EN ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications valid for the three-year 2023-2026
Verona, 13th December 2023 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of Lufthansa Group, has passed the scrupulous audit carried out by DNV, a leading independent, global provider of assurance, certification, verification and risk management services, obtaining the renewal of its UNI EN ISO 9001 and 14001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications.
All three certifications relating respectively to quality, information security and environmental management systems had been obtained in the past years, were periodically subjected to the required audits and confirmed on a regular basis.
This year the three facilities in Verona: headquarter, Training & Technical Center went through audits to again receive certifications that will be valid for the three-year period 2023-2026; for the first time, the maintenance hangar at the Florence airport was also certified ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
"This year we can say that we are very proud since, when the certifications obtained last years expired, an imposing work was imposed not only of a simple verification but of a complete restatement of the structures that really took us a lot of effort; however, we achieved the result and hit the target that we could not miss to guarantee once again to all our passengers, partners and collaborators the transparency and correctness of all our systems and procedures. Air Dolomiti bases its credibility on proper compliance with regulations, our commitment, however, has always been not only to match the required standard but rather to achieve excellence in every area of our business from safety to the care of the processes and data handling to the scrupulous control of the environmental management system. Certifications therefore document our consistency from a bureaucratic point of
view, but they are above all the framework that defines our commitment, our values and our awareness." comments Steffen Harbarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti.
"That of certification is a voluntary path: Air Dolomiti chooses not to be self-referential by subjecting its environmental performance, data management and quality orientation to verification by a third party. An approach that demonstrates how voluntary certification is an added value, both to give substance to its commitment and as a guarantee of transparency towards the consumer. This renewal comes after rigorous audits that attest Air Dolomiti's commitment to meeting the requirements of the
most important international standards, towards the continuous improvement of its performance," concludes Massimo Alvaro, CEO of Business Assurance in Italy for DNV.
Starting in February, a new connection will be operated between the German hub and one of London's five major airports
Verona, 23 November 2023 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of Lufthansa Group, is enriching its routes with a new destination departing from its Frankfurt hub. As of February 11th, 2024 (until 30/03/2024), connections between the German city and the British airport of London City will operate six days a week during the Winter Season.
From the Frankfurt hub, served by Air Dolomiti from several airports in Italy such as Verona, Turin, Florence, Pisa, Trieste, Milan Linate and Milan Malpensa, it will therefore be possible to land in London City, the fifth largest airport in the British capital, opened in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth II.
The flight, operated with the 108-seat Embraer 190, in codeshare with Lufthansa, will operate Monday through Friday for a total of 11 frequencies, in addition to a further 10 frequencies operated by Lufthansa Group.
Below are the scheduled timetables:
Monday through Friday :
EN8770 Frankfurt 07:10 - London City 07:35
EN8771 London City 08:10 - Frankfurt 10:35
EN8776 Frankfurt 16:15 - London City 16:40
EN8777 London City 17:15 - Frankfurt 19:40
Sunday:
EN8776 Frankfurt 16:15 - London City 16:40
EN8777 London City 17:15 - Frankfurt 19:40
This flight, together with also the new route to Geneva, also from Frankfurt, enriches the airline's European route offerings, which already flies from the German hub to Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Dresden, Katowice, Luxembourg and Wroclaw and from Munich Airport to Cluj, Geneva, Lyon, Nice, Orly and Graz.
"I am pleased with the new connection that allows us to reach this important British metropolis by operating on a strategic airport, used especially by business travelers to London. This new route confirms the Group's trust in Air Dolomiti giving continuity to the development on European routes and further enhancing the process of complete harmonization of the parent company's operations” Steffen Harbarth, CEO of Air Dolomiti, comments.
The new connections will join Miles & More allowing travelers to get the many benefits under the program.
From February it will be possible to buy ad hoc fares for the Company's routes
that offset CO2 emissions
Verona, 13 February 2023 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of the Lufthansa Group, implements Green Fares in its commercial offer.
Green Fares are special tariffs that allow you to fly in a more sustainable way as they envisage a combined purchase of SAF sustainable aviation fuel (which reduces individual CO2 emissions by 20%) and a participatory contribution to high quality climate projects for an amount equal to the individual tracked emissions (80% offset of individual emissions).
Starting from 15 February, passengers will therefore be able to purchase the Economy Green Fare, which includes the CO2 offset for the chosen trip, for all Air Dolomiti routes on the www.airdolomiti.eu, website.
In addition to being part of a broader sustainability project promoted by the Lufthansa Group, the fare also includes extra status miles, flexible conditions and the benefits associated with booking a classic economy flight.
The Lufthansa Group has been working for some time to approach a zero-impact aviation industry: after the launch of the Compensaid.com platform in 2019, which Air Dolomiti also joined, and the support for environmental sustainability projects, now here are the Green Fares.
The objective of the Group's companies is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050; the intermediate step, in line with the Paris climate agreement, will be to reduce carbon emissions by half by 2030 compared to 2019.
Further information on the Company on www.airdolomiti.eu and on its Social media pages.
Colours and flavours of the territory with a touch of the Holidays
Verona, 13th December 2022 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of the Lufthansa Group, offers business class passengers a special menu dedicated to the upcoming Holidays. From December 22nd to January 6th, dishes created by Edoardo Fumagalli, executive chef of the one Michelin star Locanda Margon restaurant, will be served on board all the company's flights.
From breakfast to dinner, passengers' flights will be accompanied by gourmet specialties paired with three exclusive wines from the Lunelli’s Group Winery, the company’s historical partner, of which Locanda Margon is also part.
- Ferrari Maximum Blac de Blancs – Trentodoc
- Lunelli Estates Aliotto, Toscana Rosso I.G.T.
- Lunelli Estates Pietragrande, Vigneti delle Dolomiti I.G.T.
To pleasantly awaken the palate at breakfast, a Madagascar vanilla biscuit with wild cranberries and chocolate chips, natural white yoghurt with granola and honey, and mountain egg "dressed" in I.G.T. speck crumble will be served.
At lunch, the menu will offer free-range chicken galantine with chestnuts, walnuts and parsley sauce and red cabbage salad with seaweed and toasted sesame. The mid-afternoon tea break will be a truly special moment, warmed by the enveloping flavour of cocoa bisquit, apple jam and chocolate chips cake.
Finally, dinner will feature smoked Arctic char carpaccio with dill-flavoured fondant potatoes and Chardonnay grape must dressing.
Once again, thanks to the collaboration with Italian food and wine excellences, Air Dolomiti dresses up this Holiday Season offering its passengers an exclusive high-altitude experience created to enhance the flavours of the territory and to experiment with innovative pairings featuring Ferrari Trento and Lunelli’s Estates labels.
The One Click Away project kicks off tomorrow: Enac, IATA, ITA Airways, Air Dolomiti and Neos together to facilitate booking assistance and information for people with disabilities and reduced mobility
Rome, 2 December 2022 - Enac, IATA (International Air Transport Association), ITA Airways, Air Dolomiti and Neos together to simplify and ensure the assistance booking systems at the airport and on board the aircrafts and useful information are fully accessible to people with disabilities and with reduced mobility: this is the concept of the One Click Away project which will be operational from tomorrow, 3 December, on the occasion of the International Day of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
For the first time, a network made up of various institutions, national airlines and industry associations (FISH, FIABA, FAND, ANGLAT and ASSOFLY) has been created with the common goal of breaking down barriers and making air travel easy and completely accessible to all passengers, without distinction, without exception. The participating airlines have created immediate and intuitive paths on their websites, expressly dedicated to the assistance of passengers with disabilities and with reduced mobility in order to allow a direct and unequivocal access to information on the organisation of air travel and concerning their rights.
With a single click from the home page of the three websites of the carriers which have joined the initiative, a path begins consisting of uniform and clear contents, characterised by the same layout and the same order of the topics covered. The icons, images and texts have been shared with and approved by the ANGLAT/FAND trade associations for the Italian version and by Open Doors Organization for the English one, to operate in respect of everyone's sensitivity and needs. The simplification therefore begins with the use of the wheelchair icon, positioned at the top right of the institutional home pages, to make the first click to be pressed to begin the search for the information of interest immediately identifiable.
Once the dedicated page has been opened, the user has immediate access to the essential information for booking the assistance with the air carrier. In the same section it will be possible to access a list of topics useful to the passenger. The launch of the One Click Away project precisely on the world day dedicated to the rights of persons with disabilities, highlights the objective and primary interest of all the players involved: to come together to create a system to improve the quality and experience of air travel for everyone.
“The project - declares Enac President Pierluigi Di Palma - is part of ENAC's broader strategy which aims at simplifying the flight experience for disabled passengers and passengers with reduced mobility. Being able to fly and move around in a globalised way, in accordance with our mission, must be everyone's right. Being able to rely, with the coordination of IATA, on companies sensitive to the issue, such as ITA Airways, Air Dolomiti and Neos, is a source of pride for us since we are talking about three Italian carriers. One Click Away is the calling card, the first gateway for disabled passengers to the world of airports and air transport. A way of saying that we are attentive to their needs and requirements”.
Rafael Schvartzman, IATA Regional Vice President Europe, commented: “The airline industry is committed to ensuring that safe, reliable and dignified air travel is equally accessible to all passengers. The booking process should be the first touchpoint to enable this. We welcome this initiative in Italy and hope it will become a standard practice in our industry”.
“Participating in One Click Away, in addition to the intrinsic value of the project, allows us to pursue one of our important objectives - said Fabio Maria Lazzerini, CEO and General Manager of ITA Airways - to ensure everyone has equal access to air travel and at the same time to customise the service according to the needs of each. Doing so together with institutions and in synergy with other carriers is a good example of collaboration on a social issue which goes beyond the specific interests of the individual company".
“We have worked with IATA, Enac and the other companies to create an aligned and harmonious communication so that our passengers can find full information on passenger assistance in a dedicated section. I think this is a good example of synergy and I hope that the project will become a best practice for airlines all over Europe” comments Captain Alberto Casamatti, General Operations & Accountable Manager of Air Dolomiti.
Carlo Stradiotti, Chief Executive Officer of Neos, concludes: "One Click Away is a protection tool that allows standardising responses, speeding up and simplifying procedures and offering a clear and detailed picture of the services made available to passengers".
The Company receives positive feedback from DNV for its compliance with international standards
Verona, 24th November 2022 - Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of the Lufthansa Group, has again obtained for the year 2022 the confirmation of the UNI EN ISO 9001 and 14001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications issued by the DNV team, one of the main third-party bodies providing assurance, certification, verification and risk management services at a global level, partnering with many of the world's most successful organisations in developing security and shaping new solutions to address global transformations.
The renewal of the UNI EN ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications concretely demonstrates the will to maintain a vigilant attention towards the quality of services provided to customers and an attentive sensitivity towards managing data and information. The confirmation of the ISO 14001 accredited certification documents the Company's commitment to fulfilling its environmental policy and to complying with applicable laws to limit pollution and constantly improve its performance.
“We can say once again that this year we have made every effort to deserve the confirmation of the certifications obtained in previous years: for Air Dolomiti, the ethics of its conduct and compliance with the regulations are fundamental tools for clearly ensuring our transparency and reliability to our partners and passengers. Behind every Certification there is a lot of work and a lot of commitment; we pay constant attention to company processes and good practices that we try to convey to those who work within the company so that over time these become not simply compliance with the rules but a spontaneous style of conduct." comments Steffen Harbarth CEO of Air Dolomiti.
Massimo Alvaro, CEO of Business Assurance at DNV Italia adds: “Our audits provided a fully positive outcome, a triple renewal was issued to Air Dolomiti, demonstrating their commitment towards the continuous improvement of their environmental performance, secure data management, in compliance with the requirements of the most important international standards”.
Air Dolomiti obtained the EMAS Registration Certificate in 2021, its ISO 14001 certification in 2020, ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications in 2000 and 2017 respectively; strict checks are periodically carried out for all of them, with the aim of monitoring compliance with operating standards. For further information on the company www.airdolomiti.eu