Lufthansa repays last of €9bn bailout ahead of schedule
Move paves way for German state to sell its stake in airline
Revival of rail travel a potential weapon to combat climate change
Italian example shows how investment in rail can drastically cut traffic on air routes
Italy’s new national airline ITA takes to the skies, marking end of Alitalia
Italia Trasporto Aereo uses predecessor’s brand and colours but drops the name
Ireland ranks last in EU for pandemic state aid to companies
Uneven amounts of state aid raise concerns over distortion of competition within bloc
Delta and Alitalia to launch ‘quarantine-free’ flights from US to Italy
Travellers will take PCR test 72 hours before departure, and then rapid tests at US airport before boarding and again on arrival in Italy
Ryanair accuses Lufthansa of a price-fixing cartel
Michael O’Leary vows to challenge German government’s €6bn Lufthansa bailout in ECJ
Ryanair shares take off in spite of expected losses from Covid-19 impact
Irish airline expects to make a loss of €200m in the three months to the end of June as a result of its fleet being mostly grounded because of the impact of the pandemic on air travel
Italy to inject €3bn into new Alitalia
Minister sets out plans for nationalisation of ailing Italian carrier
Air France-KLM gets EU approval for €7bn French state aid package
Stipulations include being a ‘good customer’ for European plane-maker Airbus, and a revamp of loss-making services within France
Ryanair may legally challenge EU state bailouts for national carriers
Airline expects 60% of its flights to be back by September
Next test for Dutch is whether Europe still needs an airline tax
Netherlands renews commitment to new €7 tax on all flights from January next
FTSE 100 exporters rise after sterling declines
European shares flat as Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank tie-up lifts financial stocks
Avolon takes back control of four aircraft leased to troubled Wow Air
Wow’s future in doubt as rival Icelandair drops plans to buy the smaller carrier
Telecom Italia chief describes sacking as ‘soviet style putsch’
Amos Genish removed because of disagreement with activist investor
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