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[lylyanna]

Aviation News Release


Alitalia escolhe Air France – KLM e assina acordo antes do relançamento

Presstur 02-01-2009 (04h51)

O grupo Air France – KLM é o escolhido pelos novos proprietários da Alitalia para assumir uma participação de 25% e o acordo deverá ser assinado dias antes do relançamento da companhia italiana, marcado para dia 13, segundo notícias divulgadas pela imprensa italiana.

As notícias, baseadas na agência italiana Ansa, dizem que o acordo será assinado por volta do dia 10 e que o grupo Air France – KLM vai pagar cerca de 250 milhões de euros pela participação.

A escolha de um parceiro internacional é o passo que falta para completar o plano de relançamento da Alitalia depois que a companhia foi comprada pela CAI, formada por um grupo de empresários italianos e que entretanto já alterou a designação para Alitalia (clique para ler: Nova Alitalia arranca a 13 de Janeiro).

Na corrida, além do grupo Air France – KLM, têm estado também a Lufthansa, que foi muitas vezes apontada como a preferida pelo chefe do governo italiano, Silvio Berlusconi, e a British Airways.

PressTur

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[JJNVT]

Uma pergunta quue etsou para fazer há alguns dias: a Air One não pertence à Lufthansa, ou ao menos parte dela? Se sim, não deveria ser a própria Lufthansa a "favorita" nesta briga?
Ficamos agora com a Alitalia unida operacionalmente à Air One, mas pertencendo uma à Air France-KLM e outra à Lufthansa!
É isso???

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[Mayday]

Não sei se a AirOne pertence a Lufthansa, porém no site deles aparece: AirOne partner of Lufthansa, além das citações ao Miles & More da Lufthansa.

Editado por carlos torres de meneses, 02 de janeiro de 2009 - 13:28 .

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[Cassio.Fernandes]

Eu acho que foi uma boa escolha , a KLM- Air France é bem estruturada, e com certeza vai administrar bem a Nova Alitalia

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[Electra]

Agora, eu fico pensando e sonhando: sempre se disse que há um interesse da AFR-KLM em colocar um vôo GIG-AMS que só não sai por causa do bilateral. Como o bilateral com a Itália tem espaço, será que um GIG-FCO/MXP "substituiria" este GIG-AMS de alguma forma ou o interesse é específico por um GIG-AMS? Eu, msm, acho difícil por duas razões: primeiro, pq a AZA não formará junto com a AFR-KLM uma empresa única de modo que possa utilizar as msms instalações da AFR aqui o GIG, mt embora, uma parceria, que existiria naturalmente por conta da participação acionária, já permita mts otimizações em termos de utilização das instalações. Segundo, pq a malha da AZA não é tão perfeitamente adequada ao GIG como é a da KLM com aqueles vôos para o Norte da África Sub-Saariana, principalmente, LOS.

Uma pergunta quue etsou para fazer há alguns dias: a Air One não pertence à Lufthansa, ou ao menos parte dela?

Não, eu tb pensava isso mas, definitivamente, a Air One não pertence a DLH embora sua pintura seja parecida. A cia italiana que tem participação da DLH é a Air Dolomiti.

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[lylyanna]

Aviation News Release


Air France-KLM to seal Alitalia deal next month

Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 31-Dec-2008 21:23 hrs



A plane takes off as planes of Italian flag carrier Alitalia are parked on the tarmac of Milan's Linate airport in November 2008. Air France-KLM will seal a deal to buy a stake in Italy's Alitalia next month, a source was quoted as saying, after the ailing airline was taken over by a group of Italian industry figures.


Air France-KLM will seal a deal to buy a stake in Italy's Alitalia next month, a source was quoted as saying on Wednesday, after the ailing airline was taken over by a group of Italian industry figures.

"Barring any last-minute surprises, the agreement is set to be sealed around January 10," just ahead of January 13 when the new Alitalia is to start operations, an informed source was quoted by Ansa news agency as saying.

Contacted by AFP, a spokesman for Alitalia declined to comment and a spokeswoman for Air France-KLM said the two sides were "continuing work."

Air France-KLM will pay around 250 million euros (350 million euros) for a 25 percent stake in the Italian airline, according to press reports.

Lufthansa is competing with Air France-KLM for the stake.

An Italian consortium of investors took over Alitalia earlier this month in a long-awaited deal worth 1.05 billion euros (1.46 billion dollars). Under the deal, 12,500 Alitalia workers will be retained while 3,250 jobs will be cut.

Air France-KLM had been prepared to assume Alitalia's debt, estimated at around 3.2 billion euros, as part of a takeover offer that it withdrew in early April after the breakdown of acrimonious negotiations with the unions.

AFP

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[boulosandre]

Agora, eu fico pensando e sonhando: sempre se disse que há um interesse da AFR-KLM em colocar um vôo GIG-AMS que só não sai por causa do bilateral. Como o bilateral com a Itália tem espaço, será que um GIG-FCO/MXP "substituiria" este GIG-AMS de alguma forma ou o interesse é específico por um GIG-AMS? Eu, msm, acho difícil por duas razões: primeiro, pq a AZA não formará junto com a AFR-KLM uma empresa única de modo que possa utilizar as msms instalações da AFR aqui o GIG, mt embora, uma parceria, que existiria naturalmente por conta da participação acionária, já permita mts otimizações em termos de utilização das instalações. Segundo, pq a malha da AZA não é tão perfeitamente adequada ao GIG como é a da KLM com aqueles vôos para o Norte da África Sub-Saariana, principalmente, LOS.Não, eu tb pensava isso mas, definitivamente, a Air One não pertence a DLH embora sua pintura seja parecida.

Raciocínio bastante lógico, Electra.
Só acrescentaria que a KLM também é mais forte que a AF para outros regiões do Oriente e seria bem mais interessante para o tráfego corporativo que um suposto GIG-FCO.

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[lylyanna]

Aviation News Release


Air France Beating Tough Odds For Alitalia

January 2, 2009

Air France-KLM enters 2009 in prime position to clinch a fierce battle for a stake in Alitalia as the Italian carrier crawls toward its planned rebirth as a smaller, private airline in just over 10 days.

After a three month tussle for a stake of up to 25 percent, Air France-KLM appears, for now, to have the edge over Lufthansa despite aggressive German lobbying and overt political opposition from Rome, two sources close to the talks said.

At stake is access to Europe's fourth largest aviation market amid a severe industry downturn, combining busy business routes from Italy's export-driven north with one of the world's top tourist destination markets targeting Rome in the south.

CAI, the group of Italian investors that bought Alitalia for EUR427 million euros (USD$592.8 million) last month, hopes to have a foreign partner in place when it officially relaunches the carrier with a revamped network and fewer staff on January 13, one of the sources said.

Italian media have reported that CAI has already picked Air France-KLM with a formal signing of the agreement expected next week, but both sources denied such a decision had been made.

"It's true that the talks with Air France-KLM are in a more advanced stage," one of the sources said. "We are at an important point. We're still discussing, but we don't have a deal yet."

One investor in CAI, Ninni Carbonelli D'Angelo, also told the AGI news agency that the group was in advanced talks with the French carrier but that a deal had not been reached.

Air France-KLM has long been considered a logical partner for Alitalia, with which it shares commercial ties. Both belong to the Skyteam alliance, and the French carrier last year agreed to buy Alitalia before the deal collapsed over union opposition.

CAI's plans giving Rome the lion's share of intercontinental destinations under the new network also suggest a likely deal with the French, who want a greater role for the hub.

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi however has spoken out for the alliance with Lufthansa, whose multi-hub model is also preferred by unions and influential north Italian politicians who hope that could save jobs at Milan's airports.

British Airways, which called off merger talks with Australia's Qantas Airways last month, is also vying to become Alitalia's foreign partner but its pursuit of only a commercial alliance has hampered its bid.

CAI executives have said they prefer a partner that buys a stake, which they expect will be of about 20 to 25 percent.

Investors in CAI have agreed to invest a maximum of EUR1.1 billion into the holding company to buy and relaunch Alitalia, valuing such a stake at roughly EUR220 million - EUR275 million.

Price may not be the only crunch factor, with Alitalia -- resentful at what its executives regard as second-class treatment in Skyteam -- pushing for the best possible commercial and ticketing deal with Skyteam or Lufthansa's Star Alliance.

That said, some airline executives say Alitalia will have to prove it can still command the loyalty of passengers to drive them into a foreign partner's network following years of strikes, poor service and uncertainty over the airline's future.

"We continue to work on the (Alitalia) dossier," an Air France-KLM spokesman said. "We have no other comment".

In the meantime, CAI has been swiftly ticking off the boxes on administrative and legal steps ahead of Alitalia's relaunch.

The group has completed the purchase of tiny Italian airline Air One's assets that will be merged with those of Alitalia, decided to maintain the Alitalia brand and livery, and began an advertising campaign to promote the reshaped airline.

CAI's plans to turn around Alitalia -- which filed for bankruptcy in August after years of muddling through losses, strikes, mismanagement and political meddling -- focuses heavily on efforts to improve efficiency and rebuild market share.

Alitalia's staff base of nearly 20,000 has been pared back to just over 12,500 employees and CAI has said it aims to boost Alitalia's domestic market share to 56 percent from 30 percent at present.

It also plans to reduce and then invest in Alitalia's fleet to bring down the average age of its planes to 8.6 years from 12.4, in line with larger European airlines such as Air France-KLM. It targets a break-even in 2010.

But even Alitalia's biggest fans expect CAI to face an uphill climb as the new airline prepares for take-off amid a deepening recession and bitter competition that includes a new high-speed train service in Italy.

"Alitalia died because of its 'grandeur'... it had a structure that was too big with respect to its hopes of producing a profit," said Augusto Fantozzi, the administrator who oversaw Alitalia's bankruptcy told L'Espresso magazine.

"It's been said that (CAI Chairman Roberto) Colaninno was given the juiciest bits of Alitalia, but even he'll have problems filling the airplanes."

Reuters

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