At Ancona airport new flights to Rome and Milan

Ancona Airport and the airline DAT A/S, the new assignee of the regional tender, announce the activation, starting from Monday 3 November, of scheduled connections from Ancona to Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate.

Flights from Ancona International Airport provide double daily frequency, with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays on the route to Rome and Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesday afternoons to Milan. A schedule that allows the round trip in the same day. A 48-seat ATR42-500 will be used to operate the routes, an ideal turboprop aircraft for this type of connection and compliant with the latest environmental regulations.

The company is defining the departure and arrival times, in particular on Rome Fiumicino, in compliance with the bands provided for in the tender, so as to ensure convenient national and international connections thanks to the agreements already in place with airlines such as Lufthansa, Emirates, Qatar Airways, SAS and Finnair. DAT has also expressed interest in finalizing an agreement with ITA Airways, so as to offer passengers full access to all services available at Fiumicino.

DAT A/S

Founded in 1989 by Kirsten and Jesper Rungholm, the Danish airline DAT A/S is today one of Europe's leading carriers, with operational bases in Denmark, Lithuania and Italy, and a fleet consisting of ATR and Airbus aircraft used on scheduled and charter flights in several European countries, particularly Denmark , Norway and Germany.

In Italy, the company has been operating under the DAT Volidisicilia brand since 1 July 2018 as the assignee of the Public Service Obligations connections between Sicily and the smaller islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria. In Italy it employs up to 4/5 ATR72s, operating up to 28/30 daily flights in high season for about 320,000 passengers per year, with a regularity of 99%, among the highest in the sector. The direct workforce has about 25 resources in Italy, while the allied industries support over a hundred jobs.