Alitalia's appeal, presented against the Antitrust's decision to remove the monopoly on the Milan Linate-Rome route by 28 October, was rejected by the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, which also ordered the airline to pay the costs.
The Antitrust provision had been taken at the end of the fact-finding investigation into the merger that had given rise to CAI, when the Authority had established that the presence of another company was necessary to contest the Rome-Milan route with Alitalia.
Alitalia's appeal concerned the competition brought by high-speed trains, which became substitutes for planes. Already on 5 July the request for suspension brought by the airline had been rejected.
