COMPANIES Lufthansa will on Thursday take advantage of a large traffic shortfall at one of Milan’s two main airports to launch a new European service, partly filling the vacancy in the northern Italian market left by the bankruptcy and rescue of Alitalia.
The German carrier is launching Lufthansa Italia, a full-service airline that will fly to eight European cities next spring from Malpensa. The giant airport outside Milan was built a decade ago to be Alitalia’s hub but it has been undermined by the Italian carrier’s prolonged descent into bankruptcy.
