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Felipe Bonifatti

Mar 22, 2026

11:38
How does Rome fit into the APAC network? Could we see Rome becoming the southern hub for Asian traffic, potentially bypassing the congestion of Frankfurt? So
11:53
I think in general the answer will be in the future a clear yes.
11:56
But let me just give some aspects of my answer before.
12:02
So clearly our commitment with Ita Airways, we own now 41% of the company.
12:08
And we have call options to take over the majority of shares.
12:12
And the next one is in June, and we know that our CEO made already some statements that we are looking into it.
12:18
So no decision yet, but it looks, if you just read the recent statements from our CEO, then it goes in that direction.

10 MINS LATER

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2:53
How does this new visual and strategic alignment help you in the APAC market where passengers might know Lufthansa but are less familiar with Austrian or Discover or even ITA for that matter?
3:10
I think, Vishal, this decision of having a brand umbrella does not come out of the blue or in an unplanned way, because this year we are celebrating 100 years of the first Lufthansa.
3:23
So bringing back this heritage of legacy of the core Lufthansa German airline.
3:27
And the idea is that through this new brand, we also bring some strengthening into unity and also the synergies among all the airlines in the group.
3:36
And you perfectly said, some of the airlines are well more known than others.
3:40
Lufthansa as a brand has been out for exactly 100 years in different shapes and different times with different things, but not the others.
3:47
So then we have different airlines that will definitely profit from this umbrella brand.

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