Hi to all, further news from Italy, AIR TRANSAT will operate two weekly charter flights from May 2005 to October on Rome FCO-Montreal on friday/monday. A330's and A310's are the planned type of aircrafts. Feedering italian domestic connection with Air One are expected to have the possibility to go to Rome FCO. BLUE PANORAMA AIRLINES has today received the traffic rights to operate the route Milan Mxp-Venice-Shanghai with effect Nov. 23rd. 2004. The route is weekly on tuesday with back flight on wednesdays. It plans to increase until three flights a week from the summer season 2005. Positive are the results scored on the flights to Thailand with up to 70% of load factor and an interesting cargo factor. New agreements has been established with Bangkok Air, Valuair, Phuket Air and Garuda for feedering services in the Far East Asia. Interesting news from the long haul also to the Caribbean where 9 weekly are the rotations to Cuba, the most important market of the area. These flights have origin Bologna, Milan, Rome. Five weekly flights to Dominican Republic both from Bologna, Rome, Milan. From these three airports are also suitable weekly flights to Cancun, the only airline to serve three destinations. A weekly rotation is also planned to Roatan in Honduras. VOLARE GROUP , Sviluppo Italia not confirms the interests to participate to the group of companies interested to join the holding. Its also reported that low cost flight to Berlin has been suspended because the authorities has claimed the payment of landing and handling fees not payed. That's all for today, Best Regards, Marco This is an aviation bulletin with the intention only to well known the Italian aviation scene