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trend for this category of traffic. National traffic is negatively affected by the
current national economic situation, the increasingly stronger competition from
high speed trains and the restructuring processes currently underway in major
national carriers which have historically dominated the domestic flight market.
In particular, the Alitalia Group, the major carrier group for volume of domestic
traffic, registered a -14.4% reduction in SUs and a -3.1% reduction in AFs, while
Meridiana registered a -29.9% reduction in SUs and a -23.5% reduction in AFs.
Other carriers that registered a decrease in national commercial traffic are Easyjet
(-9.0% SUs and -10.2% AFs) and Blue Panorama (-34.8% SUs and -45.1% AFs). In
2015, new companies progressively strengthened their presence and bucked the
trend in this traffic segment, recording a significantly greater volume of than the
previous year. These companies include Volotea (+47.6% SUs; +42.3% AFs) and
Vueling (+18.5% SUs and +19.1% AFs) and Vueling, while Ryanair continues to
register increments in national traffic (+7.3% SUs and +5.8% AFs). With regard to
routes served, results confirm even in 2015 the connections between Rome and
Milan continued to decrease due to strong competition from the railway service,
registering a -12.2% fall in SUs on the Rome Fiumicino - Milan Malpensa route and
-10.6% on the Rome Fiumicino - Milan Linate route. Contrary to what happened
in 2014, there was a fall in connections with Sicily, a primary domestic market
destination, where SUs decreased by -2.2% on the Rome Fiumicino - Catania
route, -7.6% on the Rome Fiumicino - Palermo route, -6.4% on the Catania - Milan
Linate route, -35.4% on the Catania - Milan Malpensa route and -31.7% on the
Catania - Bologna route.
• exempt traffic, divided into: i) exempt traffic reported by Eurocontrol, which
decreased by 5.3% in terms of SUs and by 3% in the number of assisted flights; ii)
exempt traffic not reported to Eurocontrol, with insignificant effect on revenues,
where Service Units increased by 4.5% with a an insignificant +0.4% variance in
the number of assisted flights.

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