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When the plane touched down at Malpensa airport outside Milan, I froze in my seat. I was spending a year here? In a country where I barely spoke the language and didn’t know anyone? And not even getting credit for it? What did I think I was doing...
...Politicians from Italy's rich north tried to block the deal because Air France has promised to shift Italy's main hub from Milan's Malpensa back to Rome. On Monday, Milan mayor Letizia Moratti pleaded in vain for Alitalia's managers to reconsider a partnership with German carrier Lufthansa...
...hold sway over a critical bloc of leftist politicians who say the singular priority is to limit job cuts to a minimum. At the same time, there is another sideshow: leaders from the North and from Rome are fighting with each other over whether to keep Milan's Malpensa airport as the key international hub for the airline, or return that role to Rome's Fiumicino...
...reminder of how every step Alitalia takes comes loaded with political implications, the plan is also expected to reinstate Rome's Fiumicino airport as the airline's primary transatlantic hub, pulling flights from Milan's Malpensa airport. A decade ago, the construction of the airport 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Milan was seen as a great victory for powerful northern politicians. Now both the Milanese mayor Letizia Moratti and the governor of the Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni - both rising stars of the center-right, which is the opposition in the capital - have vowed to fight the plan. Alitalia officials...
...thin, gray-haired man flew from New York City aboard TWA Flight 842 in the custody of U.S. marshals, who turned him over to armed Italian police at Milan's Malpensa Airport. Then he was flown to Rome and whisked to Rebibbia prison, where he now occupies a cell recently vacated by Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. With such swift efficiency, the U.S. last week shipped Michele Sindona, 64, home on the day that a new extradition treaty with Italy went into effect...