FR Malpensa plan rejected
After months of talks, the head of the Malpensa's management company (SEA) Giuseppe Bonomi told the Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday that he had turned down Ryanair's offer to operate out of the international airport. He described the plan made by the airline as unacceptable.
The plan was presented in September after Alitalia's latest reorganisation envisioned halving the number of flights out of the Milan's biggest airport. "Nothing will be done, at least in 2008," Chairman Bonomi said. "You should never say never, but they have to soften their position". Ryanair would have obliged SEA to change its strategy completely, and the tariffs it wanted to charge passengers were too low for the airport.
What's coming next then? Some new FR airplanes coming to Bergamo? And, I guess, a couple of announcements about new bases elsewhere coming shortly, with Poland in the first row.