The Alitalia dossier comes to life. The sale of the former national carrier is currently in the non-binding bidding phase, and three proposals have already been received, only to take over part of the package: the most active airlines so far are the German Lufthansa, already in great evidence in recent weeks for the Air Berlin deal, and the two low cost airlines Ryanair and Easyjet.
In fact, the sale of Alitalia will take place as a whole or through the division of the group into two parts with on one side the "aviation" part (aircraft, fleet, management and maintenance) and on the other the handling part, which deals with loading and unloading cargo and ground handling services for passengers. Lufthansa, Ryanair and Easyjet look exclusively at the flight part, ed it is therefore unlikely that the outcome of the tender will lead to the sale of the entire group. It is therefore more probable that the two segments will have a separate life in the future.
The extraordinary commissioners Luigi Gubitosi, Enrico Laghi and Stefano Paleari have repeatedly stressed that the procedure will continue until a proposal arrives considered to live up to expectations. So that Transport Minister Graziano Delrio himself has advanced the possibility of allocating more public money to Alitalia, after the 600 million euro loan, to lengthen the receivership pending high-level offers. However, the binding proposals must arrive by 2 October and the sale phase should be closed by early November, with the start of negotiations with the buyer.
Speaking of Lufthansa and Air Berlin, there is hypothetically another scenario at stake: that the fate of Alitalia and Air Berlin, the low-cost airline which is also the second largest airline in Germany, also in extraordinary administration, they could in fact be intertwined with the direction of Lufthansa, which is participating in both public tenders (as well as Ryanair).
