"'Much to everyone's surprise, the start of 2003 was not the black hole predicted for all Italian airports. Among those that improved their performance with respect to the same period last year were the ‘Valerio Catullo’ Verona-Villafranca and ‘Gabriele D’Annunzio’ Brescia-Montichiari airports, which in the first five months of the year seemed unaffected by the international crisis and the effects o...