Come on guys,
Alitalia is a perfect airline, only the passengers are disturbing factor!
Most users would like to see Alitalia ( the airline from Berlusconistan ) go under quickly and expect that non-union ( or at least intelligent union ) quality airlines from Northern Europe will take over the internal Italian routes. Long haul certainly will be picked up by ME Airlines and the legendary US quality carriers. Italian trains are unfortunately not a pretty alternative, as they show the same symptons as AZ ( murdered by stubborn unions and mismanaged by a humongous bureaucracy with full pensions and life time free ticket privileges being availabe for them latest at age 50 ).
The best thing in AZ's long haul fleet were the Expresso machines, I agree with the above statement about the cabin crews.
Best thing it would go bankrupt by itself, the tought that it might bring down AF-KL in 2-3 years is frightening
. Lufthansa has clearly communicated that any investor will loose its investment grade rating. Remember that even Aeroflot bailed out in the first round.
The roads in Italy are not that bad, and driving is never boring, it is at least an adventure to go from A to Z in Italy by car.
Frank