Alisarda

Alisarda

IATA ICAO Callsign IG ISS Alisarda
Founded	1963
Ceased operations	1991
Operating bases	Olbia, Italy
Fleet size	25
Company slogan	Alisarda - Linee Aeree della Sardegna

Alisarda 1973 Logo

Alisarda was an Italian airline based in Olbia, Sardinia.

Company history

Alisarda was founded in March 1963 as an air taxi and general charter company and began operations that year. Scheduled flights began on 1 June 1966 and the airline used Nord 262^[1] aircraft between Olbia and Rome. These were replaced in 1969 by the Fokker F27 Friendship and with those aircraft, routes to Pisa, Bologna and Cagliari were commenced.

Alisarda Douglas DC-9-14 at Frankfurt Airport in 1977

The next aircraft type to be introduced was the Douglas DC-9-14 twin-jet airliner with which charter flights to Germany were started. By 1975 the fleet was wholly composed of DC-9s. In the early 1980s it was an associate company of Consorzio Della Costa Smeralda in which Prince Karim Aga Khan had a majority shareholding.^[1]

In 1985 the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 was introduced and flights to Paris, Frankfurt and London were started. In 1991 Alisarda and the Spanish airline Universair joined together to form Meridiana.^[2]

Fleet details

• 2 - Douglas DC-9-14
• 2 - Douglas DC-9-32
• 10 - Douglas DC-9-51
• 7 - McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• 2 - Fokker F27 "Friendship"
• 1 - Fokker F28 "Fellowship"
• 1 - Sud SE-210 Caravelle VR

Gallery

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  An Alisarda DC-9 on arrival at Pisa Airport in 1974.

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  Fokker F-27 I-SARK

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  Alisarda DC-9 I-SARV

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  Fokker F-27 I-SARO

References

1. Endres, Gunter G (1982). World Airline Fleets 1983. Feltham: The Aviation Data Centre. p. 207. ISBN 0946141029.
2. Hengi,

• Hengi, B.I. (2000). Airlines Remembered: Over 200 Airlines of the Past, Described and Illustrated in Colour. Midland. ISBN 9781857800913.