Air France-KLM could acquire Wizz Air


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"Dutch press reports that Air France-KLM is in advanced talks to acquire Hungarian LCC Wizz Air in an effort to build pan-European LCC.

The possible acquisition of Wizz Air will provide Air France-KLM's low-cost subsidiary Transavia with a much broader European footprint."
http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieu...rance-klm-onderhandelt-over-overname-wizz-air
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Pare che IAG abbia indicato un modello di successo alle altre con Vueling.
Lufthansa e la nuova piattaforma Wings, ora KLM/AirFrance con Wizzair e Transavia.Klm-AF coprirebbe così dal nord al sud con la low cost Transavia, dall'est e parte di ovest con la Wizzair.
ps: qui in belgio se ne parla, ma solo news in fiammingo per adesso
 
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(Reuters) - Central European airline Wizz Air is not in talks with potential buyers, a company spokesman was quoted as saying by business website Portfolio on Wednesday, denying media reports that Air France KLM (AIRF.PA) was in advanced talks to buy the budget carrier.

"Wizz Air, thanks to its successes, is often approached by possible investors," the spokesman, Daniel de Carvalho said. "... Wizz Air is not in such talks at the moment."

The low-cost airline last month scrapped plans to raise 200 million euros (159.14 million pounds) on the London stock market.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0FE1VB20140709
 
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Quando negano, affermano. Vedi EY all'inizio con AZ o QR con oneWorld o altri casi.
 
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TSF07 ha detto:
Sarebbe il caso di cambiare il titolo in Air France-KLM will not acquire WizzAir
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Quando le grandi compagnie come AF-KL non confermano né smentiscono normalmente come minimo stanno pensando di fare un investimento, altre volte sono in trattativa. Wizzair smentisce ma potrebbe non essere a conoscenza della trattativa.
 
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FlyKing ha detto:
Scoprire di avere case, di cui non si sapeva niente, è una cosa squisitamente italiana ;)
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:) Ma anche qua in Ungheria non scherzano a volte.

Comunque la trattativa sarebbe tra gli azionisti di Wizzair ed AF-KL ed é legittimo che Wizzair stessa non ne sia a conoscenza (o faccia finta di non esserne a conoscenza per evitare scompigli per dipendenti, politici, aeroporti ecc ecc).
 
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Ripesco questo thread per segnalare questo articolo di CH-Aviation che svela l'intenzione di Franz acquistare W6 ai tempi del suo mandato di CEO di Lufthansa. Operazione che poteva rilevarsi molto interessante.

Lufthansa sought Wizz Air takeover under Franz administration

Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int'l) allegedly sought to acquire Hungarian LCC, Wizz Air (W6, Budapest), while under the management of previous CEO Christoph Franz Germany's Wirtschaftswoche has reported.

Sources who spoke to the business magazine on condition of anonymity said the carrier had negotiated "intensively" with Wizz Air's owners, which include Phoenix-based private-equity firm, Indigo Partners LLC, concerning a possible takeover. While no exact reason for the collapse of talks was given, it is believed the overall cost of such an acquisition would have proven prohibitive.

Since Franz's departure, the new Carsten Spohr administration has instead chosen to redevelop its germanwings (4U, Cologne/Bonn) and Eurowings (EW, Dusseldorf) subsidiaries as the carrier's response to Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l), easyJet (U2, London Luton), Vueling Airlines (VY, Barcelona El Prat), and Wizz Air's dominance in the European market.

Lufthansa is not alone in its budget carrier plans. Rival Air France-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL,Amsterdam) has also chosen to reposition its Transavia Airlines (HV, Amsterdam) and Transavia France (TO, Paris Orly) brands into regionally-based European budget carriers. The plan, however, has been met with significant resistance from Air France's pilots who recently ended a 13-day strike which is estimated to have cost the Franco-Dutch carrier at least EUR200million (USD259.7million) in lost revenue.

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has ridiculed both Air France and Lufthansa's move claiming labour's short-sightedness and intransigence would likely lead to significant longterm hinderances for each carrier's budget experiment.

"There is also Lufthansa that has some bizarre plan about establishing a new low-fare airline. Unfortunately [Lufthansa] started with a high-fare airline called Germanwings and they’ll need to do a lot more than call it that and paint it yellow to make it a low-cost carrier," he told the Buying Business Travel magazine. “The problem for legacy carriers is the more they are dealing with legacy issues, such as unions who don’t see the way forward, the harder it will be to set up a subsidiary and call it a low-cost airline. This will only help us grow in Europe."

Instead, O'Leary said he foresees a future in which Europe's established budget carriers act as feeders to Europe's legacy carriers for long haul operations.

"We could be doing contract flying for high-fare carriers and feeding high-fare carrier hubs, but I would see that operating on the basis that the high-fare, long-haul carrier would simply want access to our low-cost seats," he said. "Easyjet in London Gatwick could be feeding British Airways (BA, London Heathrow), Ryanair could be feeding Lufthansa or Air France. It's not something that I'd see them looking at in the short-term, but I think it's an inevitability over the medium term."

Last year, Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) famously rejected Ryanair's offer to provide it with domestic feeder traffic via its Rome Fiumicino hub claiming the ailing Italian carrier's service to be "more diverse and valuable for the customer."
 
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