--=======4D141C44======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-541837DB; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi to all, another reports from this country: AIR BLU', founded in the past year, has revealed the new business lines that would to follow in the next future. Headed from Alberto Denzler with previous experience in Alitalia and Azzurra Air, the airline capital is formed from 3 million of Euro, and shareholders are the IMS - Istituto Marketing Strategico represented from Denzler, Fogolar Viaggi headed from Patrizia Bortolotti, Friulia with 18% the public finance company of the Regione Friuli, the autonomous regional government, is one of the sharholders recently that has join the airline. Mini hub in Trieste with a single Canadair CRJ200 and one ATR42/500. The operations are fully granted with a partnership signed with an european airline (Air Littoral???). Destinations, Rome, Foggia, Paris, Nice, Moscow with agreements with other carrier like Air Littoral, probably with Alitalia, Minerva and Rossya. AIR DOLOMITI launch new opportunities to fly from Verona to mediterrean holiday places in the weekend with seasonal flights: With effect July 19th. 2003 every saturday a weekly rotation is added to Olbia. 205 Euro plus taxes is the fare practised, minimum stay 2 day maximum 1 month. Verona - Olbia -----6- 13:15 14:20 Olbia - Verona -----6- 19:30 20:35 With effect Aug. 2nd Kerkyra Island is the new destination reachable seasonally from Verona every saturdays. 249 Euro plus taxes is the starting fare, maximum stay allowed 21 days. Verona - Kerkyra -----6- 17:10 19:25 Kerkyra - Verona -----6- 19:55 22:10 These new routes obviously are in code share with Lufthansa. AIR EMILIA, with effect September intends to fly from Parma to Zagreb, three times a week and from this airport with a possible agreement with Croatia there are the chanches to obtain out connections to Split, Dubrovnick and Pula. This carrier also looks for the future to establish in Italy a link with a major hub, after a partnership, this airport maybe is Malpensa and in the international side is in course of evaluations the destinations of Paris and Barcelona, plus a flight to Tirana. AIR FRANCE will reduce with effect winter timetable the daily rotations from Florence to Paris CDG from 7 to 5. Introduce the A318's on a daily rotation to Bologna and Venice from Paris CDG. F100's replace the BAe146/200 on the afternoon rotation from Bologna to Paris. AIR FREEDOM, the new proposed low cost founded from two Milan's entrepreneur with Sardinian financial capitals intends to offer low fares and fixed until the date of departure without changes. The main base will be choose between the airport present in Sardinia and they intends to offer direct flight to italian airports and then to european destiantions. Rome and Milan not compares in the network. In Italy they desire to serve from Olbia: Genoa, Turin, Trieste, Bergamo, Pisa and Forli'. A circular interisland flight is granted on the round robin Cagliari to Cagliari via Olbia-Alghero. In Europe: Bruxelles, Paris Beauvais, Vienna, Zurich, Lyon, Berlin and Stuttgart. Start up planned in September '03 with three leased B737/400 from an european broker. AIR ITALICA, continues to fly with a wet-leased ATR42/300 from Italy First. AIR ONE, grants the rotations Trapani-Pantelleria and Trapani-Catania with a wet-leased ATR42/300 from Italy First. ALITALIA presents the new business plan on September 12th. 2003. ALPI EAGLES flight attendants trade unions has planned a four hours strike on July 22md, starting midday. AMERICAN AIRLINES considering the interesting load factor registered in the past months on the route Chicago- Rome FCO (load factor from 85 to 95%) and the excellent performances forecasted in this peak summer season has decided to extend until the end of November the operations. During November '03, three times a week is the scheduled operations planned on friday, saturday and sunday from Italy bound U.S. The route will be resumed on March 1st. three times a week, one month before than planned. With effect April '04 increase until five times a week and daily from May. Route Rome-New York will be resumed on April 4th. 2004, one month before. CARPATAIR increrease from six times a week to twelve the flights on Treviso-Timisoara with SF340/SAAB2000. MISTRAL AIR has signed a MoU with BAe System and ATR to lease two BAe146/300 and a single ATR72 for passenger use during the day and the weekends. Cargo in the night during the weekdays. VOLAREWEB with effect Aug. 1st. will transfer the operations in Paris from Beauvais to Orly. New flights previously operated under Air Europe or Volare Airlines will be transferred to this low cost brand from winter timetable. That's all for today, Best Regards, Marco --=======4D141C44======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-541837DB Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.497 / Virus Database: 296 - Release Date: 04/07/2003 --=======4D141C44=======--