ITA turnover 3 bn, positive EBIT - Turicchi

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 13 - Antonino Turicchi, president of ITA Airways, said Wednesday the Italian flag carrier would close the year with a turnover of three billion euros and a positive EBIT.
    ITA is the smaller heir to chronically loss-making Alitalia.
    "This company that needed the money of Italians to be born is now, in fact, profitable," sais Turicchi at the G7 tourism summit in Florence.
    "Last year, after a year, we reached profit at an operating level, this year we will close with 3 billion in turnover and therefore we will hopefully have a positive EBIT." The European Union has just OK'd a merger between ITA and Lufthansa. (ANSA).