--=======1342C94======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-6E9FD95; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi to all, further news from Italy. AIR EUROPA add a seasonal flight Rome FCO-Palma de Mallorca on fr and su. ALITALIA has received another brand new A319's, a series 112, msn 2127 regs I-BIML Alitalia delivery on March 1st. 2004 from Finkenwerder to Rome FCO ex D-AVWN Rumors reports that Alitalia Cargo after withdrawn from use of the pair of direct owned B747/243F sold to Volga Dnepr for use of the new UK cargo carrier Air Bridge Cargo has leased a pair of B747's from Southern Air Cargo. CARPATAIR soon to be delivered a third S2000 msn 039 regs YR-SBC painted at Hamburg between Feb. 23rd to 26th. 2004 was in old Crossiar c/s, regs ex HB-IZW. CIRRUS AIRLINES Will inaugurate a direct service from Mannheim to Olbia on May 15th 2004, weekly on Saturday using its Dornier 328. ITALY FIRST now operate the daily flight from Palermo to Lampedusa with ATR42/300. Reservations can be made via Tourgest. LIVINGSTON ENERGY FLIGHT 3rd A321's has been delivered on Feb 23rd. Its a series 231, msn 792, regs I-LIVD Livingston and routed from Bordeaux to Milan Malpensa via Tolosa ex D-ALAH. MERIDIANA fourth A319's series 112 msn 1048 F-OHJV has been ferried from Chateauroux to Tolosa on Feb. 24th. 2004 in full Khalifa Airways c/s prior delivery and painting for Meridiana. MINERVA AIRLINES, the deputy Department of the italian government has achieved to Italo Ballerio, Carlo Pandiscia and Paolo Paroletti to be the extraordinary commissars to prepare in the next two month the business plan to allow to Minerva to be back to fly. Minerva will receive the bonuses planned for this kind of venture with a protection from the past debts for 24 months. A similar administrative protection to the US Chapter 11. The court of Ctanzaro with this order cease definitively the board guided from Giovanni Mancuso, entrapreneur that has founded and owned the airline. This airline has operated until October 26th 2003 and has been founded ten years before to launch service and operate plus favourite the development of the southern field of Lamezia. First act to be concretized is the new agreement with Alitalia, where in pair of occasions have manifest the intention to arrive to an agreement with the new administrators of Minerva. To follow the way of investors interested to provide to the ownership of Minaerva in future like the industrial group Bernardi available to inject money to the airline stake capital. Talks are in course in these days with the CEO of that group. If anything is positive the operations could be restart in March 28th. 2004 on a reduced network and not on to the full 12 routes operated on Oct. 25th. 2003. Rumors spokes about some routes from Trieste, Perugia and Genoa to Milan Mxp, a direct flight from Genoa to Naples. ATR42's ex Alitalia is the basic equipment. In a second phase with the full availability of the ATR's ex Alitalia (4 or 5) to resume the route Trieste-Genoa and on routes operated in South Italy. Probably is definitively abandoned the use of the Do328 where with that planes Minerva has activated the first regular flight on September 1st. 1996 between Florence and Milan Mxp. VOLARE GROUP will annonce the full re-capitalization of the group on the next week. New highlights in the caotic Volareweb updating web site are: From Venice: VA8109 VCE/BER diventa diretto without stop in Hahn (daily), route VCE-HHN and HHN-BER could be probably ceased VA8223 VCE/PMI (tu, sa,su) seasonal VA8233 VCE/IBZ (mo, we,th,su) seasonal VA8281 VCE/BCN (daily) VA8213 VCE/VLC (th,sa) from Bari: VA8285 BRI/BCN (tu,th) from Roma FCO: VA8139 FCO/BER becomes daily VA8265 FCO/IBZ (mo,fr) Routes Naples-Brussels, Naples-Palermo, Venice-London Luton are suspended, the first copule on March 28th. 2004, the third on March 8th. 2004. That's all for today, Bets Regards, Marco --=======1342C94======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-6E9FD95 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.600 / Virus Database: 381 - Release Date: 28/02/2004 --=======1342C94=======--