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Air France-KLM said Monday its offer to buy struggling Italian airline Alitalia for 139 million euros ($220 million) is “no longer valid,” and left no impression that it planned to return with another.
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Passenger silhouettes frame an Alitalia plane at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino international airport, Thursday, April 24, 2008. The European Commission raised doubts Thursday that a €300 million (US$478 million) bailout for Alitalia, Italy’s...
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