AIR FRANCE/ALITALIA

Keith Nuthall
AIR France and Italy's Alitalia have offered to release landing and take off slots to competing airlines, mainly at airports in Paris and Milan, to secure European Commission approval of a proposed alliance. The release of slots would, they claimed, boost choice and price competition.


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