Opinion: Montreal’s decades-long airport curse is about to get much worse

[ad_1] Montreal has been cursed by bad airport planning. Ever since Pierre Trudeau made the fateful decision to build Mirabel Airport on expropriated farmland 55 kilometres north of downtown ahead…

Next week crucial for Italy, EU talks over Alitalia – minister

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Alitalia plane is seen on the tarmac after landing at Ben Gurion International airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo MILAN…

Pilots union calls for government to act quickly on Alitalia revamp

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: An Alitalia Airbus A320-200 passenger aircraft takes off at Fiumicino International Airport in Rome, Italy, January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s new government must…

Italy’s Audit Court approves ITA-Lufthansa deal – English

[ad_1] (ANSA) – ROME, JUN 16 – Italy’s audit court on Friday approved the agreement to sell a minority stake in ITA Airways to the German flag carrier Lufthansa.    The…

Italy presses on with Alitalia nationalisation

[ad_1] By Giuseppe Fonte, Francesca Landini ROME, March 18 (Reuters) – The Italian government is ready to put flagship carrier Alitalia under state control again after 11 years of difficult…

Rome to take full control of Alitalia in June: minister

[ad_1] MILAN (Reuters) – The Italian government will take full control of Alitalia [CAITLA.UL] in June, Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli said on Thursday, adding the airline would have gone bust…

Italy, Brussels to hammer out Alitalia revamp details next week

[ad_1] By Giuseppe Fonte, Francesca Landini ROME (Reuters) – Rome and Brussels will start talks next week to iron out technical details for the revamp of ailing carrier Alitalia, three…

FARE ALERT: Business Class New York – London From $1585 Roundtrip On New Alitalia – View from the Wing

[ad_1] FARE ALERT: Business Class New York – London From $1585 Roundtrip On New Alitalia by Gary Leff on April 13, 2023 ITA Airways, the ‘new’ Alitalia, is running a…

EU orders Italy to recover 400 mn euro loan to Alitalia

[ad_1] Alitalia no longer exists after racking up losses reaching more than 11 billion euros over two decades. Photo: Daniel SLIM / AFPSource: AFP The EU’s antitrust authorities on Monday…

Defunct airline: EU orders Italy to recover 400 mn euro loan to Alitalia

[ad_1] The EU’s antitrust authorities on Monday told Rome to claw back a 400-million-euro loan given in 2019 to then struggling airline Alitalia, which the bloc ruled was “illegal”. Alitalia…