Hi to all, further news from Italy, AIR SAL, with planned starting operation from November 2004, now is in=20 course to recruit 14 flight attendants for the start up operations planned= =20 in May/June 2005 with at the moment a Do328JET from Salerno. ALITALIA estimate to close with 850 million of Euro of losses in 2004. FINNAIR will operate three weekly charter flights on the season 2005 Twice on fridays, 20/05/05 - 16/09/05 with MD80s and 27/5/05 to 2/9/05 with= =20 MD80s. On sundays with B757s from 22/5/05 to 24/07/05. KRAS AIR has introduced the B767s on the charter flights to Rimini: 4/12/03-26/03/05 Sa B767 29/1/05-26/03/05 Sa B767 LIVINGSTON AVIATION GROUP in 2004 had scored a turn around of 242,4 million= =20 =80, change +41%, positive the EBITDA ofr 14,2 million =80 in 2004 ( 17.5= =20 million =80 in 2003). 1009000 the passengers carried, 630000 in 2003. LUXAIR confirm its regular seasonal flights to Rimini from Luxembourg 12/05/05 - 22/09/05 Th B737/500s 07/06/05 - 20/09/05 Tu B737/500s 07/07/05 - 15/09/05 Th B737/500s LUFTHANSA will increase from four to five a day the flights from Florence=20 to Frankfurt with Avro RJ85s. Will give up the route Turin-Dusseldorf. MERIDIANA has suspended with effect Feb. 1st. 2005 the route Naples-Bologna. MY AIR with effect July 16th. 2005 to Sept. 17th. 2005 will operate a=20 weekly seasonal regular flight from Bergamo to Lampedusa every saturday=20 with A320. RYANAIR apparently is on the way to cut heavily on the flight to Italy for= =20 the summer 2005: Pisa will be served only two flight a day in summer to London STN, despite= =20 the four or five on the weekends of the past year. This year once a day to= =20 Frankfurt Hahn and Charleroi instead of two on both routes. Brescia Montichiari to London Stansted is available only daily and not=20 twice a day. Alghero is available daily and not twice a day. Palermo is available daily and not twice a day. New domestic daily flights from Brescia to Rome CIA twice a day, Treviso to= =20 Rome CIA, twice a day, Alghero to Rome CIA daily with effect April 28th.= 2005. SAS will operate a new weekly charter flight from Oslo to Rimini with=20 effect May 29th. to August 14th. 2005 every week with B737/600s SWISS did'nt commence the route Zurich-Genoa, could be due to poor advance= =20 booking. The route planned to be start on Jan. 17th. was postponed to March= =20 27th. 2005 and now definitively disappeared from the major CRS. That's all for today, Best Regards, Marco