Itavia

Itavia was an Italian airline founded in 1958 and based at Rome Ciampino Airport. It was headquartered in Rome. During the late 1960s it became one of the main private airlines of Italy, and during the following decade it was considered, behind the Alitalia-ATI partnership, the "second force" of Italian commercial aviation. Indeed, the company was instrumental in the development of previously neglected airports – Ancona, Bergamo, Bologna – and in the emergence of a new southern airport, Lamezia Terme (S. Eufemia). The airline's collapse occurred in the early 1980s, following the loss of Flight 870, also known as the "Ustica Disaster".