--=======393E5E28======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-46C746FE; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi to all, a further updating on italian civil scene: AIRBLU', count down for the start up of the operations of the new carrier based at Ronchi dei Legionari Airport , the company with base in Trieste only risen from some months, with own offices already from time dislocates in the airport. Friulia SpA has entered in May 14th. 2003 in the shares team with 18%. November is the date that the president Alberto Amedeo Denzler, one of the majority associates, head of the Institute Strategic Marketing, with "Fogolar Travels" group of Bortolotti family, has indicated which propitious for the takeoff of the first legs. Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Bucharest are the first airports on which will land the aircrafts of Blue Air, carrier that, between the particularitities, has not to possess of own fleet, the navigating staff to manage. Even though the aircrafts in service, in all probability of the Canadair Bombardier CRJ 200 from 50 passengers, will shows the livery of the Trieste's company, they will remain of property of the carrier (could be the French Air Littoral, but the last word is not said) that, thanks to an agreement, will put them to disposition. Two flights everyday to the French capitol and two to the Rumanian. Blue Air uses these months that separate it for the fatidical "takeoff" in order to promote its image, its product, its "mission". "we are leading a "certosin" job and radical on the territory of the Friuli-Venice Julia - they are the words of Denzler - because it is above all what we want to promote. We want to create a net of companies, agencies, entrepreneurial and tourist truths, but not only, that they will be able to use Blue Air in order to exit uncovered, in order to make to feel the own voice and launch the own products. The traffic goes created, goes increasing, it goes searched in all the ways and is for this reason that from you open them today we have visited something like 385 companies, but also the four communal Chambers of Commerce, 26 consortia, 10 administrations and the four main tourist companies. Important dowel of this mosaic - Denzler continues - is our situated Internet (www.airblu.biz, ndr) that, in single three months, it has caught up beyond 1.500 visits, while we have received 585 demands for recording from part of as many customers to which, to short, will be sended the first number of "Blue News", ours newsletter that is taken care of aerial transport, communication and marketing but also of promotion of the companies. All this on the base of a program that heads to create mutual interests and new collaborations that they give linfa vital to the economy of the Friuli-Venice Julia. The same type of job comes lead to Foggia, other area of our interest where Blue Air has been able to collect around if subject private publics and who have the requirement to export the many "Commanded" potentialities of the so-called one. Important - it has concluded Denzler - it is the recent signed agreement of partnership in Friuli-Venice Julia with the Insiel, than between little weeks it will put online new the situated one of the company, a portal that will be taken care of aerial transport but also of tourist promotion, economic and territorial ". There is interest around the development of this new regional company, confirmed also from the letter that, some days before, Blue Air has received from the honorary consul of France to Trieste, Christia Chiaruttini Leggeri, which has emphasized the crescent demanded from part of the user of the start of a flight between Ronchi of the Legionari and Paris. Trieste wants to be the city of Expo 2008 and the connection would be one of the first steps. AIR ITALICA has received its planned ATR72's now in full livery and registered F-OHFQ. AIR NOSTRUM/IBERIA will add weekly from July 25th. 2003 the route Olbia-Madrid with CRJ200LR. GANDALF AIRLINES has presented to day in a press conference held in Pisa the new strategies of development of this carrier for the future. The new image will tempt to modify a losing strategy that has charatised the operations since the start-up. The new age will start on July 28th. 2003 with a double daily flight Pisa-Catania withe Do328JET. Successfully Pisa will be a new focal point for the operations of Gandalf. Three B737/500 will join soon the fleet. New routes will be added from Pisa to Palermo and Cagliari in future. In the financial side in these days will be evalued the offer proposed from a Luxembourgaise fund. That's all for today, Marco --=======393E5E28======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-46C746FE 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 --=======393E5E28=======--