Hi to all, further news from Italy AIR ALPS its reported to suspend the route Bolzano-Munich with effect Oct=20 15, 2005. The 10% of the stake is also on the way to be acquired by Alitalia AIR ITALY, currently both the B757s are in service on the network of=20 Cameroun Airlines until the start up of the winter top charter season from= =20 Dec 20th. 2005. Its expected to receive a wet lease B767s from LOT until=20 May or later waiting the delivery of its B767/300s expected in July. It will fly weekly as from Dcember 2005 from Verona to Havana-Holguin and=20 Verona-Punta Cana on behalf for TravelClub a new online travel portal. AIR MALTA its rumored to increase from 3 to 5 a week the route=20 Catania-London, with effect summer schedule 2006. AIR ONE has joined the frequent flyer program Eurobonus SAS. ALITALIA by Nov 1st will introduce in in ts workforce ethnic flight=20 attendants personnel for very well customize the clientele in the various=20 Far East Asia routes. Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Mumbai and Delhi are=20 destinations where soon the customers will found the new nixed crews in=20 order to have in future a better service tailored for their needs. 21 are=20 Indians, 13 chinese and 44 japanese. Its the new value added intended to=20 introduce from Alitalia for these routes. The new flight interpreters,=20 they will continue to offer the same type of job offered by the Italians=20 colleagues but they propose a match up of style and with the know how to=20 say the local costumes and language. They will wears a different uniform=20 with a blue tone and a green stripe. It will enables a new immediate great= =20 visibility and communication for the passenger that flies again with= Alitalia. Again financial trouble for Alitalia, recently the board has evaluate an=20 offer proposed by an US investment bank for advance of money in the term of= =20 485 million USD but guaranteed with the mortgaging of the fleet. The board has also confirmed the green signal to the modification of the=20 business plan in order to re considerate the diverse effects of the=20 financial and world situation connected with the increase of the value of=20 the price of the fuel For to balance that effects are on the way to be=20 considered the new actions activated especially about the network, cost of= =20 the workforce, supplyes , revenues. AZERBAIDJAN AIRLINES with effect Nov 21 2005 will start to serve Milan Mxp= =20 and Baku with A319s. BLUE PANORAMA AIRLINES , B757-231 N715TW until shortly in service with=20 Transmeridian is reported on the way to be repainted for to be delivered=20 before Christmas to the italian airline. BLU EXPRESS.COM its the new low cost brand founded by Blue Panorama=20 Airlines. With a pair of B737/400s today in service with Blue Panorama and= =20 partially revised in the livery they will start to fly from Nov 21 2005=20 from Bari to Rome with 12 weekly flights and Milan Mxp to Rome FCO with 17= =20 weekly flights. With effect Dec 15 2005 they'll add the route Rome FCO-=20 Nice (three times a week on tu-th-sa), Rome FCO-Grenoble/Lyon with four=20 times a week (mo-we-fr-su), Rome FCO-Munich (daily), Rome FCO-Vienna= (daily). Booking can be made at www.blu-express.com . A pair of B737/300s will be=20 added, the first in spring/summer 2006 and then another in 2007. With that= =20 new entity Blue Panorama group plans to increase the year turn around from= =20 175 to 240 million =80 and to be in break even the new venture in 12-18=20 months from the start up. 60-65=80 is the estimated average break even= yield,=20 the load factor from 65 to 70%. 800000 in the first year, 1,2 in the second= =20 and 1.6-1.7 in the third. The following destinations planned could be Paris Orly, Madrid , Barcelona= =20 and probably the Great Britain, already very well served, but the airline=20 wants to stay again in the limit of the two flying hours for to have the=20 best cost effects. BRITISH AIRWAYS upgrades to daily the route Catania-London LGW from the=20 summer schedule 2006. It will fly weekly from London LGW for ski charter flights with destination= =20 Bergamo. CLUBAIR it will introduce with the new winter schedule some new additions=20 and modification to that schedule.: Bologna-Chisinau with effect Oct 31st 2005 , two times a week, with=20 BAe146/200 on mo and fr. BLQ-KIV Lun/Ven 6P352 14.40-18.10 KIV-BLQ Lun/Ven 6P353 19.00-20.30 Palermo-Bucarest not includes the stop at Timisoara Ancona-Oradea-Timisoara is dropped Verona-Florence, Palermo-Verona, Genoa-Palermo are dropped Apparently dropped the route Milan Malpensa-Chisinau. Bologna-Crotone and Verona Crotone are reduced from three times a week to=20 two times a week but with different schedules mo-fr Verona-Crotone-Bologna tu-sa Bologna-Crotone-Verona CITIEXPRESS, the BA franchisee will fly weekly from Birmingham for ski=20 charter flights with destination Bergamo. EASYJET, Ray Webster celebrates in Milan the new UK low cost base. 2 by=20 March and then the 3rd jet, with rumors until up to 9. Thats the numbers.=20 its a step by step opening and today the flight to Berlin is on and by Oct.= =20 30 will be the Dortmund. By Dec 1st a twice daily to London LGW. With the=20 summer 2006 on March 27 the new destinations are Malaga, Madrid. Paris ,=20 Athens, both daily only. 100 new job positions will be created at Milan and 1.2 million passenger in= =20 12 months form the start up. Ray Webster, declares, Milan have wait that time so long EUROFLY has signed a LOI for 3 A350-800 with delivery 2013/4. The US operation 2006 is commeced and it will start on May 11 thru Nov 12= 2006. Three weekly flights from Naples to New York, Two weekly flights from=20 Bologna to New York, weekly (in the peak season two are the weekly flights)= =20 from Palermo to New York. May 11 - June 11 2006 Mo 13.50 BLQ Mo 16.55 JFK Mo 17.55 JFK Tu 8.20 NAP Tu 13.15 NAP Tu 16.55 Jfk Tu 18.55 JFK We 09.25 PMO We 13.10 PMO We 16.55 JFK We 17.55 JFK Th 8.20 NAP Th 13.15 NAP Th 16.55 Jfk Th 18.55 JFK Fr 8.55 BLQ Fr 13.50 BLQ Fr 16.55 JFK Fr 17.55 JFK Sa 8.20 NAP Sa 13.15 NAP Sa 16.55 Jfk Sa 18.55 Jfk Su 8.55 BLQ June 11 - Sep 10 2006 Mo 13.50 BLQ Mo 16.55 JFK Mo 17.55 JFK Tu 8.20 NAP Tu 13.15 NAP Tu 16.55 Jfk Tu 18.55 JFK We 09.25 PMO We 13.10 PMO We 16.55 JFK We 17.55 JFK Th 8.20 NAP Th 13.15 NAP Th 16.55 Jfk Th 18.55 JFK Fr 8.55 BLQ Fr 13.50 BLQ Fr 16.55 JFK Fr 17.55 JFK Sa 8.20 NAP Sa 13.15 NAP Sa 16.55 Jfk Sa 18:55 JFK Su 09:25 PMO Su 12:10 PMO Su 15.55 JFK Su 18.55 Jfk Mo 8.55 BLQ Sept 11 - Nov 12 2006 Mo 13.50 BLQ Mo 16.55 JFK Mo 17.55 JFK Tu 8.20 NAP Tu 13.15 NAP Tu 16.55 Jfk Tu 18.55 JFK We 09.25 PMO We 13.10 PMO We 16.55 JFK We 17.55 JFK Th 8.20 NAP Th 13.15 NAP Th 16.55 Jfk Th 18.55 JFK Fr 8.55 BLQ Fr 13.50 BLQ Fr 16.55 JFK Fr 17.55 JFK Sa 8.20 NAP Sa 13.15 NAP Sa 16.55 Jfk Sa 18.55 Jfk Su 8.55 BLQ Fares starts from 249=80 round trip from Bologna/Naples and 299=80 from=20 Palermo. Taxes not enclosed. Its reported to base airplanes in Naples from the summer season 2005,=20 Moscow its one of the routes in the target of Eurofly from Naples. FIRST CHOICE will fly weekly from Dublin for ski charter flights with=20 destination Bergamo. FLYDBA is expected to fly from Munich to Rimini with two weekly flights in= =20 the summer 2006. GB AIRWAYS will fly weekly from London LGW for ski charter flights with=20 destination Bergamo. HAPAGFLY will operate a weekly summer flight from Munich, Dusseldorf,=20 Frankfurt to Lamezia Terme. HAPAG LLOYD EXPRESS will fly from Rimini to Dusseldorf : Rimini - Cologne 31.03.2006 - 31.03.2006 X3 3641 16.30 | 18.10 FR 07.04.2006 - 27.10.2006 X3 3641 12.50 | 14.30 FR 08.05.2006 - 02.10.2006 X3 3641 17.15 | 18.55 MO Cologna-Rimini 31.03.2006 - 31.03.2006 X3 3640 14.25 | 16.05 FR 07.04.2006 - 27.10.2006 X3 3640 10.45 | 12.25 FR 08.05.2006 - 02.10.2006 X3 3640 15.10 | 16.50 MO ITALI AIRLINES will add the route Foggia-Milan Linate. DO328JET will grant= =20 the route and its a co-marketing support operation granted by the local=20 authorities of the area of Foggia with an obligation awarded to the airline= =20 of 2,52 million =80. JAT after the black clouds of the recent months will return to daily at=20 Rome Fiumicino, with effect Oct 30 th. Beograd Rom JU 404 BEG FCO 0805 0935 (1-34-6-) [733] JU 404 BEG FCO 1400 1530 (-2--5-7) [733] Rome Beograd JU 405 FCO BEG 1025 1150 (1-34-6-) [733] JU 405 FCO BEG 1620 1750 (-2--5-7) [733] JETSTAR apparently is interested to the italian market if will be=20 transformed from low cost only located in the down under to an airline with= =20 a new arm of business dedicated to the long haul low price scheme. Rome=20 will appear as the favourite destination in Europe and probably served by a= =20 two class lay out. It will be from the middle of 2006. LIVINGSTON ENERGY FLIGHT will fly from Dec 12, until May from Milan Mxp to= =20 Porto Seguro in Brasil with A330/200s as weekly charter regular. LTU its expected to fly from Rimini to Dusseldorf during the summer season= =20 2006 with a single or double weekly flight. MERIDIANA after the disappearing of many commercial manager escaped for to= =20 go in Windjet have wholly completed the new commercial and marketing asset.= =20 In that new team, its formed from old manger recently upgraded and new=20 additions. Marco Mazzoli and Giuseppe Russo are the leader of the new=20 development and marketing strategies Gianni Perniceni, Roberto Bavaro,=20 Antonello Stefanopoli and Caroline Schaefer are respectively the new=20 distribution Revenue management, indoor sales, outdoor sales. Gianni Rossi the CEO who have replaced Giovanni Sebastiani in June declares= =20 " Its a new ambitious project and so pawn for the airline, its also a=20 challenge that the carrier can win thanks to its consolidated know how and= =20 the know how in the hands of the new managers they has in the range of=20 years matured. The welcome for the new manager is extended especially to=20 Mrs Schaefer, where after a long time spent in Lufthansa, she has want to= =20 have with us that new enthusiastic challenge. MY AIR will modify by Dec 1st. 2005 the rotation Bologna-Naples as follow. It will introduce in the middle the Naples-Bucuresti-Naples on mo-we-fr=20 creating a W scheme. MYTRAVEL will fly weekly from Belfast, Manchester, London LGW for ski=20 charter flights with destination Bergamo. OASIS HONG KONG AIRLINES is reported interested to fly point to point low=20 cost from Hong Kong to Milan Mxp from the summer 2006. PORTUGALIA has applied the code share on Alitalia flights in connection=20 from Milan Malpensa to Vienna, Munich, Budapest, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart and= =20 Warsaw. Alitalia have twins the same on Portugalia flights to Oporto and=20 Lisbon. ROYAL AIR MAROC wasn't a lot satisfied about the flight experiment=20 conducted during the summer season on Catania-Casablance. The number of=20 passengers carried and the revenue was under the expectations. Its reported from the commercial department in Italy that the route=20 Bologna-Casablanca, four tims a week confirmed in the winter schedule=20 2005/6 with a 2 weekly more then 2004/5 +100% of seat capacity until end of= =20 January and 50% in the following twop months is on the way to be upgraded=20 to daily by the summer. Its the considered most faster route in developing= =20 since the opening registered by RAM in the last 10 years. RYANAIR have open on time the new base at Pisa, positioning a B737/800s and= =20 adding the new daily route Pisa-Dublin. The plans reports to have in 2008 4 jets based there, increasing by one per= =20 year in the next three. The next routes will be Pisa-Alghero/Eindhoven by=20 Jan 12 , 2006 thanks to the second jet permanently based. Not yet disclosed= =20 the further new routes in departure from Pisa for the future. The two jets= =20 will not have a great development because they partially absorbe the=20 existent today flights operated until now in origin from the foreign FR=20 bases like the flights to Gerona, London STN, ect. SMARTWINGS having recognized low expected passenger load factors on=20 Prague-Rome, with effect today has modified the flight schedule as follows: Prague-Bergamo-Rome CIA and back. It sells the Bergamo-Ciampino, four times= =20 a week at 30=80 plus taxes one way. STERLING will launch a two times a week new flight Bologna-Helsinki from=20 Oct 27 2006 on tuesday and saturday with B737/700s. THOMSONFLY will operate in the next summer season two charter weekly=20 flights from London Gatwick and Mnchester to Lamezia Terme on tuesdays. TRANSAVIA will fly weekly from Belfast for ski charter flights with=20 destination Bergamo. VIRGIN EXPRESS will reduce the weekly rotation by the summer season 2006=20 on Catania-Bruxelles lowering them from four to three a week. WINDJET it will launch by Dec 28 2005 the new two times a week Forli-Moscow= =20 Vnukovo and continue to operate in the winter the route Parigi CDG-Forli on= =20 two times a week basis. A new two times a week flight from Palermo and=20 Catania to Paris CDG is expected by January 2006, upgrade in summer to four= =20 weekly. Its expected the second daily flight on Palermo-Venice and the=20 third daily flight Forli-Catania in the winter schedule 2005/6 probably=20 between December and January. In January is expected the delivery of the=20 9th A320s. Thats all for today, Best Regards, Marco PS: A little bit Out of the news bulletin, the John Travolta's B707/100s=20 N707JT will be in Rome Ciampino on Nov 2 until 5