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Poste Air Cargo

IATA ICAO Call sign M4 MSA MISTRAL WINGS
Founded	1981
Hubs	Brescia Airport
Fleet size	5
Destinations	8
Parent company	Poste italiane
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Key people	Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli), Founder
Website	poste.it/posteaircargo

Poste Air Cargo, named Mistral Air until 30 September 2019, is an Italian cargo and former passenger airline headquartered in Rome and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Poste italiane. Its hubs are Brescia Airport and Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Rome. The airline used to serve domestic scheduled and international charter passenger services which it ceased in mid 2018 while focusing on cargo operations since then.

History

Mistral Air was established in 1981 by actor and former swimmer Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and started operations in 1984.

It was wholly owned by TNT N.V. until March 2002 when TNT sold a 75% stake to Poste Italiane. The airline has also been contracted by the Holy See of the Vatican to fly Pilgrims to holy sites such as Lourdes, Fátima, Santiago de Compostela, Medjugorje across Mostar, Israel/Palestine (Holy Land), Poland and Mexico. The first flight went from Rome to Lourdes on 27 August 2007 transporting the vicar of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini.

In May 2018, owner Poste Italiane announced that Mistral Air will cease all scheduled and charter passenger flights to focus on cargo operations from now on. The airline has been loss-making for years and recently lost a PSO contract for Italian domestic services as well.

Since October 1, 2019, Mistral Air was rebranded in Poste Air Cargo.

Destinations

As of April 2021, Poste Air Cargo operates scheduled cargo flights to the following domestic destinations as well as 8 international services from their hub in Rome:

Latest passenger destinations served by Mistral Air brand were Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Palermo, Perugia, Brescia and Pescara in Italy as well as Tirana in Albania which all ceased by August 2018.

Fleet

As of September 2024, the Poste Air Cargo fleet consists of the following aircraft:

References

1. "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
2. "Elenco delle imprese titolari di licenza di trasporto aereo". Italian Civil Aviation Authority. 3 June 2016. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
3. "Mistral Air - Contatti". Retrieved 28 June 2016.
4. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 10 April 2007. p. 51.
5. Willey, David (27 August 2007). "Vatican flight service launches". BBC News. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
6. "Il piano Mistral Air Charter addio, non resta che il cargo".
7. "Mistral Air: Bud-Spencer-Airline fliegt nur noch Pakete". 3 June 2018.
8. poste.it - Il Network retrieved 17 April 2021
9. "Poste Air Cargo Fleet Details and History". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
10. "Planespotters.net fleet of Poste Air Cargo". 31 May 2023.

External links

Media related to Poste Air Cargo at Wikimedia Commons

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