(AGENPARL) – mar 25 ottobre 2022 PRESS RELEASE
Pope Francis flies to Bahrain with ITA Airways
Departing from Rome Fiumicino airport on November 3 at 9:40 a.m.
Rome, 25 October, 2022 – The Holy Father will be travelling with ITA Airways in his next papal flight on November 3 from Rome Fiumicino to Sakhir Air Base airport in Bahrain, flying at zero CO2 impact in terms of fuel consumption. The flight will be operated on an Airbus A330 with the new blue livery, departing at 9:40 a.m. from Terminal 5 in Rome Fiumicino’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport. The flight is scheduled to land at 4:45 p.m. local time.
Fabio Maria Lazzerini, ITA Airways CEO, and Emiliana Limosani, ITA Airways Chief Commercial Officer and CEO of Volare, will be greeting the Holy Father at Fiumicino Airport before take-off.
A crew of fourteen people made up of four pilots and ten flight attendants will accompany the Holy Father on his journey. Commander Massimiliano Marselli, with 18.000 hours of flight experience, will be the supervisor of on-board activities. In addition to the papal delegation, representatives of the Italian and International press as well as the ITA Airways team dedicated to special flights will travel with Pope Francis.
It is an honor and a source of great pride for ITA Airways to accompany the Holy Father’s Apostolic Journey under the banner of Sustainability, a major commitment for the Company, as constantly reiterated by Pope
Francis in his speeches. Sustainability is among the Company’s primary commitments. On its flights, ITA Airways has indeed put in place a structured plan that includes: the streamlining of operational procedures, a program to support the use of SAF, and the abatement of the share of residual CO2 with a Gold Standard-certified emissions offset initiative.
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ITA Airways is a company totally owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the exercise of business in the air transport sector. ITA Airways aims at creating an efficient and innovative air carrier that will become a reference point in providing Italy with quality connectivity both in terms of international destinations, thus boosting tourism and foreign trade, and within the Country, also taking advantage of the train-air integrated mobility. ITA Airways will place the best customer service at the center of its strategy (through a strong digitization of processes that ensure a best-in-class experience and personalized services), combined with sustainability, in its environmental (new green and technologically advanced aircraft, use of sustainable fuels), social (equality and inclusion for a gender-neutral company) and governance (integration of sustainability into internal strategies and processes) aspects. ITA Airways is a member of SkyTeam alliance as of October 2021.