Wizz Air to launch new Pristina service

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Italy to sell ITA in June

Italy's government aims to sell state-owned ITA Airways, the successor to Alitalia, by the end of June after setting a deadline for binding offers of May 23, Economy Minister Daniele Franco said. Three prospective bidders for ITA Airways have had access to its finance data room, Franco said addressing parliament over the issue. They are shipping group MSC alongside Germany's Lufthansa, the U.S. Certares fund in cooperation with Delta and Air France, and investor Indigo Partners, Franco added. Under a government decree, Rome plans to privatise ITA through a direct sale while retaining a minority, non-controlling stake in a first stage. MSC in January requested an exclusivity period of 90 days to iron out details of an acquisition, but Rome opted for a market-based procedure aimed at keeping the door open to other potential suitors. "The outcome of the negotiations is not a foregone conclusion. We will examine the three offers in a transparent way, there is no decision on our part at present", Franco said adding a key factor is that the buyer is at least 51% owned by a European player. Lufthansa is interested in taking a minority stake in ITA, leaving the majority to MSC, the airline said in remarks during its shareholders meeting. It added, however, that the review of ITA's financial data would be important to confirm this preliminary intention. If the deal does go through, Lufthansa aims to build a close commercial cooperation with ITA and expects synergies to make the investment profitable in the long term, the carrier said. Under an agreement with the European Union, Rome can inject up to 1.35 billion euros into the ITA by 2023. A privatisation deal would potentially reduce the financial support granted by the state, limiting the costs for Italian taxpayers.

Wizz Air to launch new Pristina service

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Wizz Air has announced the launch of its new service from Baden Baden to Pristina starting this winter. Services will commence on December 16 and run twice per week, each Wednesday and Sunday. The flights will complement the carrier’s plans to launch operations between Milan and Pristina, which have been delayed on several occasions due to travel restrictions and are now scheduled to commence on December 19. Wizz Air has been growing its network out of Pristina over the past year. With the latest additions, it should offer eight destinations from the city by mid-December. In 2019, Wizz Air carried 253.282 passengers to and from Pristina, making it the fourth largest carrier in the city. Further flight details for the new Baden Baden - Pristina service can be found here.

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Anonymous10:05
Urime, Prishtinë! Excellent news indeed. Whilst others are shrinking, you are growing. Exciting times ahead.
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Anonymous10:17
How exciting.
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Anonymous10:46
Hopefully W6's next base
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Anonymous11:10
That is very interesting, escpecially considering the fact that SKP - FKB was suspended for that long and start only in November with 1x weekly.
Will see if they will increase to 2x as planned with this new competition at the back-door.
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