EU to Italian Air Transport: Renounce Alitalia!

Although Italia Air Transportation likes the concept of keeping the recognizable Alitalia brand, it might have to renounce its acquisition in buy to be ready to accessibility the 3 billion euros in state assist.

The employees of the previous Alitalia airline, now renamed ITA (Italian Air Transport), intend to hold the old manufacturer for good reasons of picture and the continuity of promoting in the world.

Amongst the queries and clarifications that the EU Commission requested from the Conte government by way of a letter investigating the changeover among the new ITA and the aged Alitalia, there is a unique stage on the destiny of the model of the historic airline.

Italy Air Transport, in simple fact, might have to renounce the acquisition of the Alitalia brand to get entry to the 3 billion euros of point out assist that will make the newco led by Francesco Caio and Fabio Lazzerini take off.

In accordance to the periodical L’Espresso, in the EU letter the importance of the theme of the discontinuity among outdated and new administration is specified: a theme that consists of all the belongings, but which would especially query the passage of the historic brand name – with 75 decades of record – from one particular enterprise to yet another.

Beginning operations with the historic brand name would be a signal that the EU does not mark a apparent distance from the heritage of the countrywide airline.

Furthermore, the nine webpages of the letter also consist of requests both of those on the methods of pinpointing financially rewarding routes by IT management – specifically for domestic types exactly where a sturdy presence of competing carriers is envisaged – and on the need to rely on a transparent European tender and non-discriminatory on the sale of floor providers and on servicing, which includes the release of slots current in the most congested airports.

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