There is a new website, applications for hiring are open and there is even a date circled on the calendar, which gives us an appointment in summer 2026. Etna Sky has inaugurated the official etnasky.com portal and has started a personnel selection, inviting candidates to present their CV directly online.
The company defines itself as «proudly Sicilian and proudly Italian» and declares that it is «looking for motivated, professional and passionate people about aviation». The launch of the site marks the first concrete public passage of a project which, since it was announced last December, has already attracted a fair amount of media attention.
Who is behind Etna Sky
The name that brought the project to the fore is that of Manlio Messina – MP from Catania, former regional councilor for Tourism with Nello Musumeci, now in the Misto group after leaving Fratelli d’Italia in July 2025. It was he who announced the birth of the carrier on social media, with the promise of “competitive quotes and super special prices for our fellow countrymen”. Messina is among the founding members, but he is not alone: the corporate structure also includes Angelo Lo Bianco, former financial director of Air Sicilia and general director of WindJet, and Gaetano Caminita, who together with Lo Bianco manages Ital Gsa, an aeronautical broker specializing in international charter flights.
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Routes, fleet and ambitions
The main operational bases will be Catania and Palermo, with flights also planned from Comiso and Trapani. In the first year of activity, national connections will focus on Milan, Rome, Turin, Bologna, Pisa and Forlì, while European connections are planned for the second year, with the ambition of also reaching North America, Canada and the Middle East. The fleet will start from 4 aircraft and reach 15 within five years. The breakeven budget, according to the declared projections, is also set for the second year of activity.
The declared objective is to give Sicilians a tangible alternative, given that flying to and from the island is “often too expensive, especially in periods in which traveling is not a choice but a necessity”.
A sector not without precedent
Sicily knows well the promises of regional air transport. Wind Jet — founded by Antonino Pulvirenti and active between 2003 and 2012 — and Aerolinee Siciliane, a more recent project that never really took off, are there to remember him. Etna Sky fits into this trend, with the difference that this time there is a site, the applications are open and the COA – the air operator certification issued by ENAC – is at the beginning of its process.
Whether the engines will really start, the summer will tell.
