Word: malpensa
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...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...