With over fifty years of hard-earned experience behind it, Alitalia is one of the leading airlines in Europe and in the world. With a network spanning sixty countries, Alitalia transports over 25 million passengers a year and, in 1999, the Group achieved an overall turnover of 10,400 billion lire (about 5,370 million euro).
Alitalia competes on the world market and the Group's levels of efficiency and development ensure that it provides standards of service that very few of its rivals can match. Its main objective is, and always has been, to provide the best possible service for customers.