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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ALITALIA
1946-1948
1949-1957
1960-1961
1964-1967
1969-1973
1980-1984
1991-1994
1996-1997
1998-2000
2001-2002
2005-2006
2007-oggi
Towards the end of 1949, the Company’s fleet is completely renewed with the arrival of four Douglas DC-4s, purchased from Pan American. The next year the first stewardesses take up their jobs, wearing uniforms designed by fashion stylists, the Fontana sisters. On 31 October 1957, the merger between Alitalia and LAI-Linee Aeree Italiane gives birth to Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane, the only Italian airline based at Rome’s Ciampino airport.
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