--=======4CEA1BBF======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-67F24CC2; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi to all, further news about the Italian civil aviation scene!! AIR ALPS with effect Jan. 26th. 2004 will probably activate a daily=20 rotation during the day from Rome FCO to Brescia to cover the hole left=20 from Gandalf Airlines that has suspended all the flights on the route. Al= do=20 Bevilacqua has affirmed that two weeks is the minimum time requested to=20 arrange a new route and the future presence on that flights is obviously=20 related to the agreements between the carrier and the airport handling=20 company. But the airline isn' able to perform a three daily flight link t= o=20 Brescia from Rome not before then the end of March. Because Aldo Bevilacq= ua=20 says that Air Alps would to start a route with a defined timetable, a=20 launch promotional campaign opened a reasonable time before the planned=20 date of starting of the flights and not immediately. ALITALIA is reported to receive the 14th. 767, its a -3S1 MSN 26608/ 559=20 registered EI-DDW and ferried from MZJ-TUS-DUB 15jan04 in basic Air Cana= da=20 cs ex C-GGBI. AZZURRA AIR, pair of A320's are reported in Malta Luqa airport put in lon= g=20 term storage. GANDALF AIRLINES is reported only to operate from Bergamo routes to=20 Stuttgart and Paris. GEE BEE AIR is the airline that now owns the routes from Palermo to=20 Lampedusa and Palermo to Pantelleria with a daily ATR72 rotation. TRASPORTI AEREI ITALIANI/ AIR COLUMBIA with effect Jan. 1st. 2004=20 operates the route Pescara-Milan Linate time to time with SWM or ATR42=20 when required. Thats all for today, Best Regards, Marco =20 --=======4CEA1BBF======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-67F24CC2 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.553 / Virus Database: 345 - Release Date: 18/12/2003 --=======4CEA1BBF=======--