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ALITALIA further three MD82s will leave tomoprrow Italy to Malta on the way south to South Africa. They are I-DAWO/G/Q.

ALITALIA CARGO, tomorrow MD11SFs EI-UPE will be ferried back in US with flight number AZA8924 from Rome FCO to Dothan, Alabama via New York JFK.

BLUE PANORAMA, B767/300ER EI-CZH is now in service since last weekend.

They had a technical fault on a B737/300s who have caused 18 hours of delay. They have replaced it with a back up airliner leased in ACMI from another carrier. Route planned was a Roma FCO-Marsa Alam-Rome FCO. Passengers were assisted with meals and night paid by the airline.

DELTA AIR LINES continue to reduce and drop weekly frequencies on Pisa-New York JFK. Suspended by next coming week until the first days of February 2009, with at least 3 weeks of flights wholly dropped. With effect Feb 8 to March 9 2009 the route is operated 3xweek and non as scheduled until some days ago with 4xweek.
Low bookings affects this route in winter and especially when traffic is lowest for leisure demand.

EASYJET will open 4xweek Liverpool-Naples by summer 2009 on mo-we-fr-su.

EUROFLY passengers stranded in Mombasa and Zanzibar after that fault is occured to an A330s were lifted back thanks to an Air Italy B757/200s.

JADE CARGO is now suffering company rebuilding and network is affected from the new asset on the way to be designed by Lufthansa Cargo. Some gateway in Italy can disappear. Brescia is one probably in the list where until now the load factor was not ever excellent.

MEA will offer in summer 2009 four weekly flights to Milan Mxp and Rome FCo with separate schedules:
Milan MXP-Beyrut is 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su
Rome FCO-Beyrut is 4xweek on tu-th-sa-su
Flight equipment is A320s on all the routes.

MYAIR is currently leasing in ACMI different airliners from a Mistral Air B737/300s, Itali Airlines MD82s and JeTran Air MD82s to cope network necessities.

NORWEGIAN by Apr 2 2009 will open Rome FCO-Stockholm 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su with B737/800s.

WINDJET is now dropped the route Forlì-Olbia. This route announced when new hub in Forlì was released by the press conference is disappeared from many days on the airline booking engine.
Route Forlì-Barcellona and scheduled twice a week by March 29 2009 is now planned to go by June 20. Its almost three months of stop where flights loaded in the past on booking engine now are disappeared.

WIZZ will add the route Treviso-Sofia by March 30 2009 on tu-th-sa. Its operated with a 180 seater A320s and it copes the hole left on the route by MyAir disappeared recently on Venice-Sofia.

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AIR ITALY, new summer flights are scheduled and available for sale on booking engines right now.
They are planned from Verona and Olbia to selected domestic destinations:
Olbia to Bari/Catania/Naples/Verona/Turin( from 4xweek to daily in the peak) from Jun 26 2009.
Verona to Lamezia Terme/Reggio Calabria (3xweek)/Brindisi and Olbia-Palermo by July 24 2009.
Schedules and day of operations are variable with rush peak on summer

AIRONE now is CAI. Take over was signed on Dec 31 2008.


BLU EXPRESS have Lamezia Terme in evaluation for new flights to Rome FCO. Venice is also another market where slots request was presented.
They has uploaded a new twice weekly seasonal flight Rome FCO-Ibiza on fridays and sundays in the period June-September 2009. Tickets starts from 69€ one way.

BRITISH AIRWAYS, rumors reports they will operate a seasonal London LCY-Pisa with a variable schedule from 2xweek to 4xweek. There are no confirms due to flights are not actually scheduled on CRSs, rumors appears that comes from Pisa Airport that has also announced this new flight in arecent article appeared on medias.

CIMBER STERLING is the name applied to the new division that will operate low cost operations on routes previously operated by Sterling and went out of business at end of October 2008. Two B737/700s are the flight equipment recently contracted from former fleet in use by old Sterling.

EUROFLY have problems with an A330/200 in AOG at Mombasa and an Air Italy B767/200s is leased from Air Italy in order to cope the schedule.

MYAIR use one or two ACMI MD82s from Itali Airlines on selected days of the week for granting the network.

VOLAREWEB on Jan 12 2009 will fly the last revenue operated flight on Brindis-Milan scheduled on late afternoon.

Aer Lingus/Ryanair on Bologna-Dublin by summer 2009

Aer Lingus and Ryanair will operate in clash on Bologna-Dublin by summer season 2009.
Uploading the new summer services, Aer Lingus confirms three times a week the seasonal Bologna-Dublin. Ryanair will begin to fly on the leg by Oct 27 twice a week and in summer they'll increase until 4xweek.
Aer Lingus (Ryanair owns 31% of shares) will work on tuesday, thursday and saturday. Ryanair will fly in the remaining days.

MyAir have closed Brindisi and Catania

MyAir continues to give up services from Bologna. They has recently cutted two domestic routes to Southern Italy: Brindisi (by Sept 26) and Catania (Sept 30).
Operated three times a week flights to Brindisi were commened in June 2005. Catania is a route resumed in last March and operated daily. The decison to drop these services is connected to a network reduction and not by the load factor again positive until now.

Neos owns Cancun service in winter

Neos will have in the hands the weekly service to Cancun operated on behalf for Alpitour and Francorosso.
Its a weekly service operated on thursdays with B767/300ERs.
Bologna-Cancun 12.00-19.00 via Roma thursday
Cancun-Bologna 20.40-15.30+1 non stop

SAB ends with Forlì airport

The divorce now is consumed. SAB - Bologna airport managing company have left stake participation in SEAF - Forlì airport company. After eyars where SEAF have lose a lot of money with financial year closed with huge highest losses. SAB have not participate into the support for cover losses matured in FY 2007 for more than 3,7 million €.
The local scene is full of attacks especially coming from Forlì local authorites against Bologna for its refuse to cover losses due to they has owned a 17% batch of shares in the company.
On last friday after that deadline is expired Franco Rusticali Head of SEAF have affirmed the intention to order to a lawyer office about if there are ways to proceede against SAB.
SAB in a press release affirmed to be happy to say that and hopefully they want that a court will clear the situation.

AirOne to Naples is now three times a day

By Oct 2008, regular flights to Naples are back to three times a day.
They have resumed the evening rotation operated with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Naples-Bologna 19.00-20.05
Bologna-Naples 20.40-21.50

AirOne publish winter timetable

No updates or new additions in AirOne winter timetable effective by Oct 26 2008.
They has published the timetable despite AirOne will merge into CAI-Compagnia Aerea Italiana when process to obtain AOC is terminated.
AirOne will offer direct services to:
Alghero, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Bari, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Lamezia Terme, daily with 159 seater A320s,
Naples, 19 flight a week with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Services to Athens are via Naples and available from Bologna to Athens on monday, wednesday, friday only. Northward from Athens to Bologna are available on monday, wednesday, friday and sunday.

Two more routes for Wizzair

Wizzair have look very well to the market with origin from this Northern East gateway with catchment area that overlook Tuscany and Marche. They'll add in 2009 two more routes servicing Bucuresti Baneasa and Cluj Napoca.
March 3 2009:
tuesday/thursday/saturday
Bologna-Bucarest Baneasa 08:10 - 11:05 W6 738 A320
Bucarest Baneasa-Bologna 06:10 - 07:25 W6 737 A320
May 2 2009:
Bologna-Cluj Napoca 08:05 - 10:45 W6 798 A320
Cluj Napoca-Bologna 06:20 - 07:20 W6 797 A320
180 seaterAirbus A320s will fly the routes.
From a long time ago was rumored the landing of Wizzair in that part of Italy.
Centralwings game over have expedite this process and they as first have took place on Katowice (Krakow area) and Warsaw. Now they'll have open Bucuresti and Cluj.

Alitalia drops flight at 9am to Rome

On the way of current company policy to reduce and cut services, reduce frequencies or change flight equipments. Alitalia with effect Oct 6 2008 it will drops the daily service to Rome scheduled at 9am from monday to saturdays and operated by EMB170s.
They continue to fly Rome with four daily flights operated by Boeing MD82s.