{"id":86032,"date":"2022-05-24T22:52:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=86032"},"modified":"2022-05-24T22:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:52:57","slug":"msc-group-and-lufthansa-submit-joint-bid-for-ita-airways-travel-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/transport\/msc-group-and-lufthansa-submit-joint-bid-for-ita-airways-travel-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC Group and Lufthansa submit joint bid for ITA Airways: Travel Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping company MSC Group, the parent of MSC Cruises, has placed a formal bid for a majority stake in Italy\u2019s ITA Airways. <\/p>\n<p>The bid was made in conjunction with Germany\u2019s Lufthansa Group, an MSC spokesman confirmed in a Tuesday email.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MSC didn\u2019t provide details of the bid, though Reuters has reported that MSC would control 60% of ITA while Lufthansa would control 20%. The Italian government, which currently owns ITA, would keep 20% of the carrier, Reuters said, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In January, when MSC first confirmed its interest in ITA, the company said that buying the airline could bring synergies for its passenger cruise and commercial shipping businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte founded and owns MSC.<\/p>\n<p>ITA replaced Alitalia as Italy&#8217;s flag carrier last October.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Airline-News\/MSC-Group-Lufthansa-submit-joint-bid-ITA-Airways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping company MSC Group, the parent of MSC Cruises, has placed a formal bid for a majority stake in Italy\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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