--=======580A661C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-53E15C61; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi to all this is another updating regarding the italian civil scene: AIR DOLOMITI rumors reported recently speaks about a new change of policy= =20 of the airline with the probably intention to reduce or drop some point t= o=20 point flights and increase the presence on the routes feedering traffic t= o=20 the hubs of MUC-FRA and VIE. Plus the opening in the optic of the Star=20 Alliance new flights to Scandinavia and to Poland with probably ad hoc=20 agreements with LOT. Its out of discussion, as reported in various parts,= =20 the change of image and livery of the airline after the announce of the n= ew=20 Lufthansa Regional brand that merge the four feedere company Contactair,=20 Eurowings, Augsburg and Lufthansa Cityline. They operates under LH Region= al=20 new brand, Air Dolomiti for itself. These choice is after the evalutaion = of=20 the negative incame from a change of brand due to the satisfaction receiv= ed=20 until now from italian and european customers. AIR FREEDOM have modified the timetable planned with this new operations = task: Olbia-Cagliari-London; Olbia-Pisa-Copenaghen; Olbia-Bologna-Berlin; Olbia-Bologna-Athens; Olbia-Bologna-Brindisi; Olbia-Naples-Bari; Olbia-Trieste Cagliari-Olbia-Paris; Cagliari-Brescia-Munich; Cagliari-Brescia-Amsterdam: Cagliari-Brescia-Zurich; Cagliari-Olbia-Barcellona; Cagliari-Turin-Wien. These flights are operated two or three times a week. Scheduled could be operated with leased Futura B737/400's, rumours report= s=20 a small participation of this airline in the stake of this italian new lo= w=20 cost airline but nothing yet is confirmed. AZZURRA AIR, Seven Plc. have recently acquired the stake in the hands of=20 Air Malta. The route Rome FCO-Bergamo will be operated with B737/700=20 instead of Avro'S. This carrier have manifested the intention to purchase= =20 Air Littoral from the court of justice of Montpellier. EMIRATES SKY CARGO is reported to be the next client of MLE - Malpensa=20 Logistica Europa, the cargo terminal of Milan Malpensa with a weekly=20 saturday service from Milan Mxp to Dubai with B747/400F starting end of=20 October. FLYBE is reported interested to open the Florence-Southampton route with=20 effect summer tiemtable 2004. FINNAIR starts a new winter Santa Claus feeder flight basic one flight a=20 week but sometimes twice from Milan Mxp to Rovaniemi with A320. 10 weekly flights from Milan and 5 from Rome, this is the scheduled plann= ed=20 for this coming winter season '03/04. GANDALF AIRLINES with effect Oct. 8th. 2003 has reduced the timetable as=20 follow: Brescia-Barcelona, from two daily to 0, discontinued; Brescia-Bari from 2 to 1 daily; Brescia-Naples from 3 to 1 daily; Brescia-Rome FCO from 4 to 3; Bari to Genoa from 1 to 0, discontinued; Pisa-Catania from 2 to 0, discontinued; Pisa-Madrid from 1 to 0, discontinued, Gerd Brandeker of Cirrus Airlines has confirmed the intention to verify t= he=20 ways to purchase the full stake of the airline now in serious financial=20 difficults. MERIDIANA with effect summer timetable continues the expansion from South= =20 of Italy to France, after the launch of the two times a day rotations fro= m=20 Paris CDG to Naples and adds new regular flights operated five times a we= ek=20 each from Catania to Paris CDG and Palermo to Paris CDG. Both are operate= d=20 on Mo-Th-Fr-Sa-Su. POLAR AIR CARGO has dropped the intention to operate regular services fro= m=20 Milan Malpensa. In the past September 2nd. 2003 was the planned inaugural= =20 date, and successfully postponed to the end of October. Now the services=20 will be operated from Basel. SUDAN AIRWAYS now represented in Italy as G.S.A. from Distal & I.T.R. -=20 Rome, from saturday OPct. 18th. 2003 will resume a weekly flight from Rom= e=20 to Port Sudan and Khartoum via Cairo with B737 and A300. VOLAREWEB extends the operations from Bari with further two daily flights= =20 from 1 to 3 on Bari-Rome FCO, a three times a week to Bruxelles, a daily=20 from Oct. 1st. to Milan Orio. From Brindisi a new daily flight will link=20 Milan Malpensa. That's all for today, Best Regards, Marco --=======580A661C======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-53E15C61 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 09/10/2003 --=======580A661C=======--