25 MAY 2015

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Alitalia – Air France partnership

Alitalia has announced that it will not renew its partnership agreement and ancillary joint ventures agreements with Air France-KLM when they come up for renewal in 2017.  The initial agreements date back to 2009.

The agreements include the government of passenger services operated by the three carriers between both Italy and France and Italy and the Netherlands and beyond, and incorporated the marketing, sales and distribution of Alitalia Cargo belly services undertaken by Air France-KLM.

Silvano Cassano, CEO of Alitalia, said: “These agreements are no longer beneficial, either commercially or strategically, to the new Alitalia and its ambitious turnaround plan.  They were negotiated when Alitalia was in a very different position, with the result that the agreements in their current forms favour the other party.”

Italy’s national airline signed a deal with Etihad Airways in August last year in which the Gulf carrier acquired a 49% stake, becoming the company’s largest stakeholder.  www.alitalia.com

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