AMALIA ERCOLI-FINZI, “MOTHER” OF THE ROSETTA SPACE PROBE
Writing about Amalia Ercoli-Finzi on our blog is a huge honour. As an airline company, we look up to her brilliance in the field in which we operate. As human beings, we are grateful for her contribution to progress and innovation. As women, we...
EMBRAER 50º
700 candles.
That’s right, the 14 aeroplanes in our fleet are celebrating 50 years!
Rather, their parent company Embraer is celebrating half a century, because our aeroplanes are actually very young ?.
Since 2009, Air Dolomiti has partnered with the Brazilian company Embraer, becoming launch customer in...
JAMES STEWART
“The whole world believed James Stewart. They have never caught him acting”. These words come from Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter and film critic.
James Maitland Stewart was a big, great actor from the United States. Already an Oscar winner in 1941 as an actor in...
THE MYTHOLOGY OF FLIGHT
Before Air Dolomiti, before the Wright brothers and the Montgolfier brothers, even before Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines, before any of these revolutionary inventions, humans could only fly in their wildest imaginations.
In ancient times, we looked to the sky, hungry for knowledge, observing celestial...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
In our section dedicated to great historical figures in the world of aviation, this time it’s the turn of Charles Lindbergh, a real rockstar for those who are passionate about aeroplanes.
Have you ever been awake, attentive and focused on doing something extremely demanding for...
PAN AM: STORY OF A MYTH OF AVIATION
Some brands made modern world history. And if “American Express” stands for credit card and “Gillette” for razor, “Pan Am” could stand for air company.
It was 1927 when the American businessman Juan Trippe founded the Aviation Corporation of America financed by some tycoons including...
THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS
Joseph Michele and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier were two French inventors who lived on the cusp of the 1700s and 1800s. Fathers of the hot air balloon (known as mongolfiera in Italian).
The hot air balloon, as rudimentary as it may seem to us now, was...
BEFORE GPS
How many objects do we take for granted every day? The mobile phone that allows us to contact children, friends and relatives at any time, the internet that allows us to buy flights at just the click of a few buttons, the credit cards...
ELLEN CHURCH: THE FIRST FEMALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
On 22 September, 1904, a woman was born in a small town in rural Iowa. She’d later make aviation history and change women’s role in the world of work.
Ellen Church was a child with a big personality and a head full of dreams who...
THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS’ UNIFORMS
There are many reasons why flight attendants wear uniforms.
The first reason is a psychological one: there’s evidence that people have more confidence in uniformed professionals. Passengers rely on flight attendants and pilots on an aeroplane no less than they do doctors and nurses in...
