Alitalia (2nd) (Rome) has flatly turned away Ryanair’s (Dublin) (please see the previous post) offer to feed Alitalia’s long range flights at its Rome Fiumicino hub. Ryanair has announced it will move many of its flights to its new Fiumicino base.

Alitalia issued this terse and short statement:

“Alitalia has its own strategy, an industrial plan, a fleet and its own crews that allow it to have the necessary passenger traffic to feed its international and intercontinental connections leaving from the hub at Fiumicino airport”.

Read the full report from Reuters: CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen/AirlinersGallery.com. Alitalia’s Boeing 767-343 ER EI-CRM (msn 30009) arrives from Rome (Fiumicino) at New York (JFK).

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