Privatization, increasingly Air France on Alitalia

Sep 13

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Continue the operations for the privatization of Alitalia el 'Air France-Klm send a delegation to Rome to meet with the Director of the strategies and alliances of Alitalia, Piero Ceschia and other executives. Air France appears to be the most quoted conclusion but Alitalia is in contact with the other major European companies to be interviewed by the end of the month, Lufthansa and British Airways, in addition to Air One-Intesa, and TPG is the leading Asian carriers and others. The President Alitalia Maurizio Prato, after submission of data results for the first half, which confirmed an operating loss of 127 million, which continues the curve ¬ cosÃ the previous years: -132 million in 2006, and -129 million in 2005, denies that Air France is favored and that "the bilateral relations of partnership" is standing since 2001 with the SkyTeam alliance and involve regular meetings between the two management ". On the crisis Alitalia confirmed the data to negative compared to major European carriers that expand the fleet and improve profits Alitalia change in accounting principles recorded a slight decline in economic loss for the first half from 220 to 211 million euros, in fact the company says that the cost of engine maintenance (shop visit) will not be charged more in income but are "capitalized and depreciated according to the period of economic usefulness" and then coated over several years by reducing the net loss of 9 million and a half improvement of 30 million in equity at year-end, bringing it up to 725.6 million euros. Furthermore, 'Alitalia, because of the lease end, will have a short B-767 at least while there is a new B-777 in more and two others from 2010.