Originally Posted by
FD1971
In any case, Northern Italy is considered to be LH territory at least in the minds of Lufthansa, so KL/AF had to do something to prevent a complete takeover and still get the feed.
Neither your current employer (?) nor AF/KL should get entitled to any area of EU as an exclusive domain, at least in theory. Any concerned government will do what it can to make sure there are no dominating incumbents. But we all know that there are little, invisible men in both Cologne and Paris working tirelessly in order to get more "juice" for their employers, and at the same time denying the same for inconvenient competitors @:-)