Holding an academic degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, he is an Italian citizen who started his career at Embraer – Brazil in 1987, as a design engineer.

He joined Eurofly at the start up in 1989 and he has run the technical department of the airline for over 13 years, developing a fleet of DC-9, MD-80, 767, A320 and A330. He was promoted Chief Operations Officer in February 2005. Highlights of the company achievements were the IPO and the launch of all-business service between Milano and New York with an ACJ319. Andrea Zanetto was part of the management team to merge Meridiana and Eurofly, becoming the COO of Meridiana fly.

In January 2011, he joined Comlux as CEO of Comlux Aviation, the VIP operator division of Comlux.