Italy’s bankrupt national airline makes last flight after 74 turbulent years
Final call for Alitalia: Italy’s bankrupt national airline makes last flight after 74 turbulent years
The last Alitalia flight was AZ1586 from Cagliari due to land at 11pm this eveningItaly’s national airline is set to be replaced with ITA, Italy Air Transport, on FridayITA will be a slimmed down airline with only a quarter of the 10,000 Alitalia staff Employees have staged strikes and protests over their treatment in recent weeks
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Italy‘s bankrupt national airline Alitalia made its last flight today before formally folding after 74 turbulent years of business, marking the end of an era.
A flight attendant at Rome’s Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci Airport thanked passengers for their loyalty before boarding the noon Flight AZ1581 to Cagliari, Sardinia.
The last scheduled Alitalia flight was the return from Cagliari, Flight AZ1586, due to land at 11pm on Thursday.
Alitalia, which had operated in the red for more than a decade, will be replaced by a new national carrier, ITA, or Italy Air Transport, which launches on Friday.
Italy’s bankrupt national airline Alitalia made its last flight today before formally folding after 74 turbulent years of business, marking the end of an era
A flight attendant at Rome’s Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci Airport thanked passengers for their loyalty before boarding the noon Flight AZ1581 to Cagliari, Sardinia
The European Union’s executive commission has given the go-ahead to a 1.35 billion-euro ($1.58 billion) injection of government funding into the new airline, but ITA only plans to hire around a quarter of the estimated 10,000 Alitalia employees.
In recent weeks, Alitalia workers staged strikes and protests denouncing their treatment and what for many was just the final episode after years of crises.
They cast doubt about the viability of the new airline and said its slimmed-down size, workforce, routes and fleet was presumably aimed at making it attractive for a foreign airline to buy.
In recent weeks, Alitalia workers staged strikes and protests denouncing their treatment and what for many was just the final episode after years of crises
Alitalia employees have protested over their treatment after it was announced the national carrier’s replacement ITA would be a slimmed down airline and hire only a quarter of the 10,000 staff
An Alitalia employee protests a Rome’s Fiumicino Airport today as the airline’s last flights take off before the company formally closes
Union leader Antonio Amoroso told the Foreign Press Association on Thursday that it was ‘a failed plan from the industrial point of view that doesn’t serve the country, doesn’t serve the community to which an enormous amount of money is asked, that seriously affects the workers.’
Among its routes, ITA plans to operate flights to New York from Milan and Rome, and to Tokyo, Boston and Miami from Rome.
European destinations from Rome and Milan’s Linate airport will also include Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt and Geneva.
Alitalia employees gathered outside Rome’s Fiumicino airport today, protesting over the closure of Italy’s national carrier
Alitalia, which had operated in the red for more than a decade, will be replaced by a new national carrier, ITA, or Italy Air Transport, which launches on Friday
