Price watchdog summons air companies

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 1 - Benedetto Mineo, the head of Italy's price-monitoring watchdog, has summoned the air companies running services on the domestic routes that have experienced sharp price rises recently to an encounter on Tuesday, the business and Made in Italy (MIMIT) ministry said on Saturday.
    The meeting will make it possible to analyse the flight ticket dynamics in view of the establishment of a price-alert committee, the ministry said.
    Consumer association Codacons, which recently got the Antitrust authority to open a probe into the price of flights between the mainland and Sicily, welcomed the move.
    "The government is right to call up the airlines to verify what is happening with flight prices," said Codacons President Carlo Rienzi.
    "We have been saying for months that the air-sector prices are out of control.
    "We consider the price trends in the air-transport sector to be absolutely unjustified and they are a huge damage to citizens, especially in the period of the summer departures". (ANSA).