Alitalia, goodbye to Boxes: canceled flights to the South

From 1 October via connections from Alghero, Bari and Catania, Lamezia, Reggio and Catania. Fassino and Chiamparino ask for the intervention of the government. The mayor tomorrow will meet with the ceo of Alitalia. Also intervenes the Region Sicily
Alitalia if it goes from boxes. And this time he does it for real. To raise the alarm and Sagat, the company that manages the airport of Turin. In a letter to the mayor Piero Fassino, the president of the Region Sergio Chiamparino and industrialists president Joseph Donato and the to Roberto Barbieri announce the intention of the former national airline of demobilization from Turin airport. From 1 October all disappear flights from Alghero, Bari and Catania, Lamezia and Reggio Calabria and Palermo. Will Remain one flight per day to Naples and the current connections to Rome and Tirana. To confirm this is the same Alitalia that justifies the choice with the need to save. "Routes are not economically sustainable - explains the company - and at the moment in which you reduce the size to increase productivity, it take routes that make and cut those that forgiveness". Laws of the market dictated by the new course of Alitalia after the agreement with the Arab Etihad. And this could only be the first move. According to the summits of Sagat "the decision of the group is all the more incredible when you consider that the traffic generated by all the routes that will be erased exceed half a million viaggiatoriall the year, and that it is profitable routes featuring high coefficients of filling". Not only that, the cancellation of these flights will determine the substantial zeroing of connections with the Region of Calabria and the drastic reduction in those to other localities in the South, only a small part unbridled by flights of other airlines such as Ryanair and the Spanish Volotea. "We are making efforts to look for solutions with alternative carriers - explain the vertices of Sagat - but they must evaluate on the basis of economic considerations if activate links on our airport rather than on other national airports". "For this - continue - it should be a concerted effort involving public bodies and the representatives of entrepreneurship piedmont". Money, in short, that may convince other companies to settle in Turin. For now none becomes unbalanced and the mayor himself Fassino hopes to be able to convince the Magliana to a reverse gear. Has already convened a summit, on Monday at 18, with Region, and entrepreneurs to assume "both toward Alitalia both toward other vectors the initiatives necessary for the maintenance of the connections from Turin airport". Chiamparino think also about a common action against the government "to limit as much as possible the cutting of the routes, well knowing that Alitalia is no longer a public majority". Fassino has also telephoned the premier Matthew Renzi, who will meet tomorrow. "We will take all possible steps to keep these routes with Alitalia or with other carriers", he assured the mayor. Fassino has stressed that the decision of the company "is a strategic choice of the company" but the city "is a big discomfort". Fassino has ensured that will closely monitor the situation "also as president of the Anci". "We Act on Alitalia - concluded - to see if we can be an amendment to the decisions, and on the other carriers to maintain stable the offer". The mayor in addition to premier will also meet with the ceo of Alitalia, Gabriele Del Torchio. Without the company is likely to be interrupted even the shy trend of resumption of the numbers from the gang torinese after the performance is not its own exciting in recent years. In July in fact, the airport had marked a growth of 16.5 per cent, finishing as the best among the Italians grew up on average of 4.2 . Even in august things were not going badly with the passenger growth of 12.7 per cent compared to the same period last year, while on an annual basis the growth and the 9.1 . As a result of the formalization of the cuts Alitalia association FlyTorino reiterates that "to avoid the collapse of the connections from Turin to the South of Italy, you must immediately find a low-cost carrier able to take over immediately to Alitalia on the routes cleared, and in this perspective, the Irish airline Ryanair is the only credible interlocutor". In a note FlyTorino stresses: "The fault of inconsiderate cuts that will be applied by Meridiana and Alitalia on the routes from boxes. In this way puts at risk the connectivity of the entire region, at the beginning of a year, the 2015, which is crucial for the whole of the territory". According to the president, Valentino Magazzu, "retreat of Alitalia has to be the occasion for boxes to turn the page and finally begin a stable growth path. The only credible interlocutor and the low cost airline Ryanair, which already has 14 operational bases in Italy and transports on boxes almost 700 thousand passengers a year". It also moves the Region of Sicily: "The choice of Alitalia to cut routes direct north-south and a choice that frankly we do not understand and will involve a Damage to the passengers Sicilians. We are hoping for a immediate intervention of the minister wolves to avert the damage that would be this decision". He says the regional councillor for infrastructure and mobility, Nico Torrisi.