Division (11)
United Kingdom
It results from the Commission's assessment under Article 81 that there is a risk that the alliance eliminates competition in respect of a substantial part of air passenger services on seven ‘origin and destination’f1 pairs i.e. Paris–Milan, Paris–Rome, Paris–Venice, Paris–Florence, Paris–Bologna, Paris–Naples and Milan–Lyon. Prior to the alliance, Air France and Alitalia were the two main operators on these affected overlap markets, competing head-to-head. At the time of the notification, they had very high market shares on these seven O & D pairs. This goes for time-sensitive and flexibility-focused passengers as well as for price-sensitive passengersf2.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
-
To establish the relevant market in air transport, the Commission has developed the point-of-origin/ point-of-destination (O & D) pair approach. According to this approach, every combination of point-of-origin and point-of-destination should be considered to be a separate market from the customer's point of view.
- f2
-
There is one exception for this second category of passengers on the Milan–Lyon city-pair, in view of the constraining effects of existing competition from other transport modes (road transport).