TUI Travel takes Air Berlin stake

TUI Travel takes Air Berlin stake, BBC reported on October 9th, 2009.
TUI Travel is to take a 9.9% stake in Air Berlin, in a deal that will give Germany's second-largest airline 33.5m euros ($49.4m; £30.8m) in new capital.
Hannover-based TUI says its Leibniz-Service company will complete the transaction later in October.
Air Berlin recently received approval to takeover several routes of TUI's own airline, TUIfly and thus flies to Sardinia (Olbia and Cagliari) from the German cities of Cologne, Stuttgart and Munich into Sardinia under an Airberlin flight number.
The proceeds from the deal will be used for general corporate purposes, Air Berlin says.
In September, Air Berlin and TUIfly scrapped plans for a cross-shareholding deal.

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Ryanair comes back to Alghero - More flights to Sardinia in 2010

Ryanair will not abandon Alghero (Italy). It will instead increase its presence on the "Riviera del Corallo" airport, as stated by the president of Sardinia's regional government Ugo Cappellacci after a meeting in Dublin with Alghero's major Marco Tedde and Ryanair's deputy CEO Michael Cawely in October. The aim of the low-cost is airline would be to reach 140-150 thousand passengers for its national and international links with Fertilia's airport. "We have verified and shared a path that will now be examined by the heads of the airline with SOGEAAL's managers, to pass the current impasse -Cappellacci stated- Ryanair will restore routes to Frankfurt and Madrid and is ready to study further development hypothesises for Alghero, besides the traditional route to Barcelona". The problem stood out in recent weeks when the Irish carrier announced its intention to leave Alghero in order to point on Cagliari, generating protests from local institutions (see AVIONEWS). "Obviously -the president of the Region said- these solutions are not in contrast or alternate to Ryanair's further development programmes at Cagliari-Elmas airport". (Avionews)

All Ryanair destinations from and to Alghero:

Bari 3,00Bruxelles (Charleroi) 3,00Francoforte-Hahn NEW 3,00Girona (Barcelona) 3,00Madrid NEW 3,00Milano (Bergamo) 3,00Parigi-Beauvais 3,00Parma
3,00Pisa 3,00Roma (Ciampino) 3,00Venezia-Treviso 3,00Verona (Brescia) 9,99Ancona NEW 23,82Billund NEW 23,82Dublino NEW 23,82Düsseldorf (Weeze) NEW
23,82Eindhoven NEW 23,82Liverpool NEW 23,82Londra-Stansted 23,82Memmingen (Munich West) NEW 23,82Oslo (Torp) NEW 23,82Reus (Barcelona) NEW 23,82Stoccolma Skavsta NEW

Fares From Italy:
Ancona
Bari
Bologna
Brindisi
Cagliari
Cuneo
Genova
Lamezia
Milano (Bergamo)
Olbia
Palermo
Parma
Perugia NEW
Pescara
Pisa
Rimini
Roma (Ciampino)
Torino
Trapani
Trieste
Venezia-Treviso
Verona (Brescia)

Longevity Examiner: More from the Sardinian Blue Zone for healthy longevity

Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer from the People who’ve Lived the Longest”, wanted to interview someone younger than 100 in Sardinia, Italy to get a better feel for what exactly makes up the traditional values of the Sardinians that enables them to live long and vigorous lives.

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