good news, looks like the Malpensa Mess
will have an end soon
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> http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/13092007/325/ryanair-says-ready-launch-80-milan-routes.html
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> Ryanair says ready to launch 80 Milan routes
>
> MILAN (Reuters) - Budget airline Ryanair said on Thursday it
> was ready to launch 80 routes to two Milan airports, stepping in as
> struggling Alitalia (Milan: AZA.MI - news) cuts back in
> Italy's industrial heartland.
>
> Europe's biggest low-cost carrier is prepared to use an additional 12
> airliners at Milan's Malpensa airport and another six at Serio airport
> in Bergamo, company spokesman Peter Sherrard told a news conference.
>
> The planes are worth more than $1 billion (493 million pounds) at list
> prices and part of a hefty backlog of 171 planes Ryanair (Dublin:
> RY4.IR - news) has on order with Boeing .
>
> The expansion would be in reaction to Alitalia's plans to nearly halve
> its 340 daily flights from Malpensa, Sherrard said.
>
> At Malpensa, Ryanair would launch 50 European flights and 10 to
> Italian destinations, he said.
>
> Ryanair management is set to discuss the plan with executives from
> Milan airports operator SEA on Friday in Dublin.
>
> The Dublin-based airline said it was ready to fill the gaps that
> Alitalia might abandon, though Alessia Viviani, Ryanair's head of
> marketing in Italy, said it was too early to say whether it would try
> to buy slots from Alitalia.
>
> State-controlled Alitalia announced a survival plan in August that
> included scaling back its presence at Malpensa. Alitalia has hubs at
> Malpensa and Rome's Fiumicino.
>
> Shares in Ryanair were down 0.19 percent at 5.22 pounds in London at
> 9:33 a.m., while Alitalia shares were up 1.5 percent at 0.8075 euro.
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