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AirportsLazio's third airport: Latina is on strike against the choice of Viterbo
Latina, Italy - CGIL, CISL and UIL plan a protest for December 19
"The airport in Viterbo is in contrast to the commitments by the Region regarding the Latina Project", and "The development model concertized with the Region and and ended in the Latina Project as regards... more
AirportsFive workers denounced for theft at the airport of Rome-Fiumicino
Fiumicino , Italy - Four are employees of AdR, one of another company working in the cargo area
The police forces based at the airport of Rome-Fiumicino have denounced five workers of the airport with accusation of theft. It seems namely that they may be responsible for the disparition of goods in... more
AirportsNew Club Air routes from the Orio al Serio airport
Bergamo, Italy - From Monday, December 10
"On Monday December 10, 2007 the airline Club Air (www.clubair.com) will inaugurate two new routes from the airport of Bergamo-Orio al Serio to Ancona and Tirana. The connection to the airport of Falconara... more
AirportsLyon Airport: 7.2 million passenger forecast for 2007
Lyon, France - In April 2008 a new terminal will open only for the low-fare carriers
Passengers forecast for the airport of Lyon's "A. Saint Exupéry" are 7.2 million, +7% compared with 2006. "Probably there will be a further growth -said the president Guy Mathiolon- because we count... more
AirportsSEA: strike in Lombardia's air transport against Alitalia plan
Milan, Italy - The four-hour protest is scheduled for next Friday
"SEA - Milan airports management company - informs that, due to the strike in Lombardia's air transport against the Alitalia plan, called by all the unions, on Friday November 30 from 11:00am to 3:00pm... more
AirportsFiumicino, third worst airport in Europe in terms of punctuality
Fiumicino , Italy - Better Malpensa and Linate
AEA, the Association of European Airlines (the low-fares-carriers are not members), published the data on flight punctuality for the third quarter (July-September) of 2007, considered per airport. Rome-Fiumicino... more
AirportsAir traffic boom, how can we cope with the airports saturation?
Rome, Italy - Guido Pugliesi, CEO of ENAV, shows his strategy
In the last years the big growth of the air traffic and the consequent risk of saturation of the infrastructures have come on the EU agenda. Recently the vice-President of the EU Commission, Jacques Barrot,... more
AirportsViterbo as Lazio's third airport (3), Riggio: the links must be conformed as soon as possible
Roma, Italia - According to the ENAC President Viterbo can not take the chance that the EU does not give authority
The ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) president Vito Riggio said "The links between Rome and Viterbo must be conformed as soon as possible. The connections - he said - are strict and we cannot take... more
AirportsViterbo as Lazio's third airport (4), the defeated's reactions
Rome, Italy - The mayor of Latina protests against the choice, more relaxed the reply by the president of Frosinone's province
There are still reactions after the choice of Viterbo, the city that prepares to host Lazio's third air station. Armando Cusani, president of the Latina province, defined this choice as "Wicked". "It... more
AirportsViterbo as Lazio's third airport (2), the Minister Fioroni: I am not the Saint in heaven
Rome, Italy - In the meantime Frosinone is waiting for the airport
Giuseppe Fioroni, the Italian Secretary for Education, replying to the journalists in respect of the choice of Viterbo as Lazio's third airport, wanted to clarify his role: "I've always been fighting to... more
AirportsViterbo as Lazio's third airport, the reasons of an announced success
Viterbo, Italy - The absence of competing civil airports facilitated the Etrurian city's victory
After yesterday's announcement (see AVIONEWS) the city of Viterbo prepares to host an air station that, together with Rome-Fiumicino and Rome-Ciampino, will face the traffic increase in Lazio's airport... more
AirportsENAC grants 4 new airport concessions
Rome, Italy - They will have a forty-year term
The decrees for the airport concessions of Alghero, Catania, Palermo and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (see AVIONEWS) airports have been registered. Last days the board of ENAC (Italian Authority for Civil Aviation)... more
AirportsSave: a 54.3 million Euro investment plan for the airport of Venice
Venice, Italy - On condition that there is an equivalent increase of the airport fares
Save, Venice Airport Management Company, has planned a 54.3 million Euro investment plan for the airport until 2010, but on condition that there is an equivalent increase of the airport fares. Only the... more
AirportsAerdorica passes the budget 2007
Falconara, Italy - It closes with a deficit of over 3 million Euro
The Aerdorica (Ancona's airport management society) shareholders assembly has passed the budget 2007 with a deficit of 3,456,000 Euro and with a reserve to insert in the count a contingent asset equal... more
AirportsEU cancels the exclusive, the Sardinian airports will be opened to the competition
Brussels, Belgium - Ryanair low-cost airline, exclused from the public service system, reported the case to the EU Commission
After two years of dispute with the EU, Italy will streamline the "Public service obligations" concerning the airlines which operate the connections from Sardinia. Within 2008 the current regulations,... more
Airports"Comitato aeroporto di Viterbo": the decision, finally
Viterbo, Italy - From today the Tuscia's capital, city of Europe
"Rome, London, Barcelona, Paris, Bergamo, Berlin. Airports: Viterbo, Stansted, Gerona, Beauvais, Orio al Serio, Shoenefeld. From today Viterbo is city of Europe. Viterbo takes off, thanks to its... more
AirportsThird airport of Lazio: Viterbo wins
Rome, Italy - The Minister of Transport, Alessandro Bianchi, communicated it
During a press-conference with the President of Lazio, Piero Marrazzo, the Minister of Transport, Alessandro Bianchi, announced that the third airport of Lazio will be Viterbo. Bianchi said: "At the end... more
AirportsBloated fares, AerTre and Save under indictment
Venice, Italiy - The management companies of Treviso and Venice airports would charged unjustified rises
In the ENAC (Italian Authority for Civil Aviation) offices of Venice and Treviso the Financial Police acquired documents regarding AerTre and SAVE (the management companies of Treviso and Venice airports,... more
AirportsForty-year license to the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia airport
Gorizia, Italy - A procedure lasted two years
After a procedure lasted two years, the forty-year license to the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia airport has been released by ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) in last days. The new license will allow... more
AirportsReggio Calabria's airport shut for 24 hours
Reggio Calabria , Italy - Due to a cloud of ashes of the Etna. Debate on society structure goes on
In Reggio Calabria the "Tito Minniti" airport remained shut, from 1:00pm of last Saturday to 2:00pm of yesterday, because of a cloud of vulcanic ashes erupted from the Etna, which have obscured the sky... more
AirportsItalian Transports Ministry: Bianchi convoked Marrazzo this morning
Rome, Italy - For the presentation of conclusions about third Lazio's airport
"On completion of the preliminary works by Commission and following valuations, the Italian Transports Minister, Alessandro Bianchi, has summoned for this morning the President of Lazio Region's Piero... more
AirportsMen at work at the "Sant'Anna" airport in Crotone
Crotone , Italy - New directors' board appointed
The restructuring of the "Sant'Anna" airport in Crotone goes on, airport in Calabria controlled by the Bergamo-based company Miro Radici Finance, belonging to Nicola Radici. The airport is namely enjoying... more
AirportsA plane flies too low and damages some houses roofs near Turin-Caselle
Turin, Italy - No injured people, but great fear for the families who live near the airport
Yesterday, shortly after 1:30pm in Turin-Caselle airport, a landing airplane has sucked numerous roof-tiles of some houses flinging them on the same roofs and underlying courts. The aircraft probably flew... more
Airports"Corrado Gex": an airport that will have much "Style"
Aosta, Italy - The new airport terminal will be designed by Gae Aulenti
The associated study of Gae Aulenti - prominent architect who has designed, moreover the Turin Palavela for the "Winter Olympic Games 2006", Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Musée d'Orsay of Paris and... more
AirportsVenice-Tessera, problems at the electric system and industrial agitation
Venice, Italy - Yesterday no light for an hour on one floor
The airport of Venice-Tessera is rocked by different problems. Above all of technical nature, with the electric system that according to the local media is very deficitary. The electric cables get namely... more
AirportsLazio third airport: operating between 2011 and 2017
Rome, Italy - The repercussions in the Stock Exchange for Gemina shares
After the alternation of indiscretions on the possibility to create also a fourth airport for Lazio, the third airport could be in operation between 2011 and 2017. The forecast capability could be about... more
AirportsThird airport of Lazio: the final sprint
Rome, Italy - The name of the city, which will hold the new airport, will be disclosed within 7 days
During a meeting of Uiltrasporti union Alessandro Bianchi, the Minister of the Transport, has communicated to journalists that within the next week the name of the city, which will host the third airport... more
AirportsItalian airports development, the final plan will be delivered within the end of the year
Bari, Italy - Di Paola, Assaeroporti President, has already entrusted the first part of the reorganization programme to the minister Bianchi
Last September 30th, Domenico Di Paola, sole director of Aeroporti di Puglia and Assaeroporti President, had delivered the first step of the future airports development plan to the minister Bianchi. From... more
AirportsMalpensa and Linate, cancelled hundreds of Alitalia flights this morning
Milan, Italy - Even though the unions put off the strike to November 30th
Endless hardships for thousand passengers leaving this morning from the Milanese airports of Malpensa and Linate. Even though the strike, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed to November 30th... more
AirportsSEA, still disputes on the airport fares
Milan, Italy - The management company of the Milanese airports lodged an appeal to the Lazio TAR
Giulio Demetrio, general director of SEA, management company of the Milanese airports of Linate and Malpensa, refuses the accusations according to which the managed airports are the most expensive in Italy.... more
AirportsOrio al Serio airport, the cuts of SACBO board start
Bergamo , Italy - The number will decrease at least of 4 members
It is time of cuts also for the boards of the airport management companies. After the SEA, which manages Milan airports and has diminished its members of the board from 9 to 5, the SACBO (Bergamo-Orio... more
AirportsGesap SpA: started the Ryanair web check-in in the "Falcone e Borsellino" airport
Palermo , Italy - After Alitalia, Air One and easyJet
"News in the check-in system for the passengers departing from Palermo airport with Ryanair flights. After Alitalia, Air One and easyJet also Ryanair offers to its passengers the web check-in, contacting... more
AirportsAirport charges raise for Heathrow and Gatwick
London, UK - The announcement by the Civil Aviation Authority
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has given its green light to increases of airport fees for the 2008/2009 period for carriers flying on London's airports of Heathrow and Gatwick. They are boosts by 15,6%... more
AirportsItalian entrepreneurs defend Malpensa's role
Milan, Italy - "A resource for the Italian economy"
As the talks on Alitalia's status carry on (see AVIONEWS), the Italian entrepreneurs' association, Confindustria, takes position in regard to the airport of Malpensa, whose destiny is uncertain as well... more
AirportsSEA: shareholders meeting to elect the new councillors
Milan, Italy - Giuseppe Bonomi confirmed president and CEO
"Today has been held the meeting of SEA SpA (Milan airports management company) shareholders. The meeting has decided in extraordinary session, according to the law 296/2006, for the modification of... more
AirportsGenoa, international tender for relaunching the air station
Genoa, Italy - Giovanni Novi, president of the port Authority, hopes for a joint management of "Cristoforo Colombo"
This morning, the president of the port Authority, Giovanni Novi, has communicated the opening of an international public tender aiming to decide who will support the current shareholders of Aeroporto... more
AirportsUK: Heathrow and Gatwick the worst records for delayed departing flights
London, United Kingdom - Data provided for the Association of European Airlines
London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports had the worst records for delayed departing flights of all Europe's leading airports in the three months through September, the "Financial Times" reported. Gatwick... more
AirportsFrosinone, the pro-airport committee asks for two new airports
Frosinone , Italy - One must be built in the South, the other in the North of Rome
While Alessandro Bianchi, the Italian Minister of Transport, announces that the work of the technical commission on the third airport of Lazio is going to end, Stefano Venditti, the president of Frosinone... more
AirportsThe European Union to elaborate a decongestion plan for the regional airports
Brussels, Belgium - The forecasts of ECAC and EUROCONTROL
A forecast of ECAC - European Civil Aviation Conference and EUROCONTROL has estimated that within 2025 there will be over 9 billion passengers worldwide, and Asia will be the main market. According... more
AirportsVillanova d'Albenga, German airline interested in the airport
Villanova d'Albenga , Italy - The meeting of Tuesday in the ENAC headquarters has been useful to solve the crisis of the Liguria airport
The first details on the meeting of Tuesday, took place in the ENAC (Italian Authority for Civil Aviation) headquarters, to find a solution for the Villanova d'Albenga airport, come out. They are finding... more
AirportsSagat: passenger traffic record in Caselle's airport also in October
Turin, Italy - The Turin's air station increases more than the national average
"October is a new record month for passengers traffic in Turin-Caselle's airport. 297,291 passengers are transited last month, 14,4% more than October 2006 (259,835 passengers), the best result for the... more
AirportsSACBO: new Wizz Air routes from the Orio al Serio airport
Bergamo, Italy - To Bucharest with four flights a week from next Februry 29
"Wizz Air, the Eastern-Europe low-cost airline, has announced the expansion of its base in Bucharest, where starting from February 28, 2008 it will operate with a second new Airbus A-320 airplane and at... more
AirportsFoggia Airport, the bid for 5 new routes is ready
Foggia , Italy - The airlines have 60 days to enter their bids
Aeroporti Puglia SpA, the company who manages the airports of Puglia, announced a contract for new air links in the "Gino Lisa" airport of Foggia. These are the destinations requested: Catania or Palermo,... more
AirportsYunnan, an airport will be built where the US Flying Tigers helped the Chinese
Tengchong, China - The pilots were secretely sent to Asia by the American President F.D. Roosvelt in WW2
In the Chinese district of Tengchong, province of Yunnan, will be built a civil airport on the route of the "Camel Peak" (Himalaya mountains), called "Death route", trough which, during World War 2, a... more
AirportsSAT: net profit of "Galileo Galilei" airport falls
Pisa, Italy - Balance approved yesterday: gross operative margin decreasing
"The balance of the third quarter of Pisa airport has been approved yesterday, November 12 2007. Very good the traffic results: 2,876,469 passengers from January 1st to September 30th 2007, an increase... more
AirportsSave, net profit of 8.7 million Euros for 2007 third quarter
Venice, Italy - Growth of 6% compared with the same period of last year
SAVE, the company who manages "Marco Polo" Venice airport, registered a net profit of 8.7 million Euros in the 2007 third quarter, with a growth of 6%, compared with the same period of 2006. The capital... more
AirportsBari, EUR 20 million to develop "Karol Wojtyla" airport
Bari, Italy - Call for bids opened until next December 19th
Aeroporti di Puglia SpA puts work out to tender of 20 million Euros, financing with the funds of the programme agreement signed in 2003, which will be useful to develop Bari "Karol Wojtyla" airport. The... more
AirportsVillanova d'Albenga airport, Liguria Region studies the relaunch
Villanova d'Albenga, Italy - Bipartisan agreement also to restore the flight to Rome
The Regional council of Liguria approved unanimously an agenda that binds the council and the representatives of the minority political forces to find concrete solutions for the full future operativeness... more
AirportsAutogrill: the Board of Directors approves the results for the first nine months
Milan, Italy - And 3rd quarter of 2007
"Consolidated revenues rise to € 3,516.8m (up 23.8%) in the first nine months and to € 1,482.4m in the 3rd quarter (up 38.3%). Double figure growth in all geographical-organizational regions First nin... more
AirportsProtest of SEA workers: hardships in Malpensa and Linate
Milan, Italy - Convened two meetings in view of the maxi-strike scheduled for Thursday November 22
This morning at Milan-Malpensa and Milan-Linate airports have been held the trade-union meetings of the SEA SpA e SEA Handling workers. There have been flights delays which vary from 20 to 45 minutes on... more