American Airlines will suspend all US flights to Milan, the airline said late on Saturday, just hours after the US State Department said it was raising its travel warning for parts of Italy due to the coronavirus outbreak. Italy is experiencing Europe's worst outbreak of the infectious disease, with more than 1,100 confirmed cases and 29 deaths. The country's outbreak emerged last week about 60 km from Milan. American said it will suspend flights to and from Milan, from New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport and Miami through April 24, citing a reduction in demand. American said its final flight will return from Milan on Sunday. American will continue to operate a single daily flight to Italy -- between Philadelphia and Rome in each direction. American is scheduled to resume seasonal service to Venice in May.<br/>
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The EU’s antitrust watchdog said Friday that it has launched an investigation into a loan of E400m from the Italian government to national airline Alitalia to establish whether the money is illegal state aid. The watchdog, the EC, said that the aim is to assess if the “loan granted to Alitalia constitutes state aid and whether it complies with the rules on state aid to companies in difficulty.” The EC said that Italy had announced the loan to Alitalia late last year and that the money was meant “to facilitate the streamlining of the company in order to attempt to sell its assets.” The EC said it launched the probe after receiving a number of complaints about the loan. <br/>