No we are not, but again, this is not to create a "new alitalia".
LH, BA, AF etc would not care so much about the national jobs.....want an example, you have it, take Nokia in Bochum/Germany, because they can make more profit in Rumania they closed the factory in Bochum which made profit!!! and more than 2000 people lost their jobs.
So after it was not possible to find a new investor for Alitalia, it was AF at the end who decided not to take over AZ, Banca Intesa jumps in and take the chance, the money doesnt come from the gov. it comes from other investors.
So if you think this plan is not good, then again, what would you do?
BTW I am not even italian, I just work in Italy.
SB Airholding/Brussels was started with a lot of money from banks, and expanded by merging Virgin Express with the new airline. SRB still owns 30% of the current entity thanks to this merger.
And this is exactly the same what will happen with Alitalia and of course the gov has to be involved, because they still own 49% of the company, so how could they not be involved???
Of course Swissair was different, because due to SR AOM, AirLiberte, Volare, Sabena and Sobelair went bust as well and LTU ist still struggeling due to this, you are right, this was compleatly different.
'write it off' by letting AZ go bust
it will, this is what you still dont understand, AZ will go bust, the first step is done.