Alitalia to pull out from Reggio di Calabria
Alitalia will cease all flights from the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria in a move that will remove the majority of services from the city’s airport. From March 27, the carrier said it will halt its 56 weekly flights from Aeroporto dello Stretto, which serves Reggio on the “toe” of Italy. Alitalia said its flights—38X-weekly to Rome Fiumicino, 14X-weekly to Milan Linate and 4X-weekly to Turin—were heavily loss-making, turning in a deficit of E6m (US$6.4m) in 2016. It had tried for a year to find a way to maintain the services, but talks involving the Italian central govt and local and regional authorities had been unsuccessful. “We are a commercially focused business and our decisions are made for economic reasons,” Alitalia CE Cramer Ball said. “The Reggio Calabria services are losing money and that situation simply could not continue.” <br/>
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Alitalia to pull out from Reggio di Calabria
Alitalia will cease all flights from the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria in a move that will remove the majority of services from the city’s airport. From March 27, the carrier said it will halt its 56 weekly flights from Aeroporto dello Stretto, which serves Reggio on the “toe” of Italy. Alitalia said its flights—38X-weekly to Rome Fiumicino, 14X-weekly to Milan Linate and 4X-weekly to Turin—were heavily loss-making, turning in a deficit of E6m (US$6.4m) in 2016. It had tried for a year to find a way to maintain the services, but talks involving the Italian central govt and local and regional authorities had been unsuccessful. “We are a commercially focused business and our decisions are made for economic reasons,” Alitalia CE Cramer Ball said. “The Reggio Calabria services are losing money and that situation simply could not continue.” <br/>
