Rumours were spread days ago by a couple of sources on the most followed Italian aviation forum (aviazionecivile.org). Sadly, possibly anyone could see this coming, mainly considering the current financial state of the airline and the overall feeling that those couple of services [currently operating out of MXP] didn't really make a great deal of sense given, again, the current state-of-play in terms of financial resources and the next-to-nil impact from a virtually non-existing feeder network, with FCO being the core of AZ's operations.

Whilst we're at it, I feel it is worth recalling AZ's robust network out of MXP up to a few years ago (with my apologies if I've missed anything), when the main hub was based in Milan itself:

BIO MRS CDG AMS BRU TXL DUS STR MUC ZRH GVA VIE PRG BUD BEG MSQ LED KBP SVO IST OTP SOF GOA FLR BLQ AOI PEG BZO MAD BCN VLC AGP LIS LYS NCE LHR CPH ARN FRA ZAG SPU WAW SJJ TSR SKP KRK PVG MLA ATH SKG DKR ACC via LOS ITM DEL BOM DAM BEY IKA DXB MIA ORD EWR BOS YYZ CCS EZE JFK GRU

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