ROME, Sept 25 (Reuters) - British airline easyJet and Germany's Lufthansa
have requested routes in Italy that were shed by near-bankrupt carrier Alitalia,
Italy's civil aviation authority ENAC said on Thursday.
ENAC's chief Vito Riggio said Easyjet requested 20 of Alitalia's former
Italian domestic routes operating out of Rome's main airport, Fiumicino.
He said Lufthansa requested eight routes operating out of Milan's Malpensa
airport. The requests were made to the Italian firm that handles routes in
Italy, Assoclearance, Riggio said.
Alitalia, which shed the routes earlier this year under a cost-cutting plan,
risks collapse unless its unions agree to a buyout proposal by Italian investors
that involves job and wage cuts. In a breakthrough, its four main unions signed
off on the plan on Thursday.
(Reporting by Alberto Sisto; editing by Elaine Hardcastle) Keywords:
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