Please correct me if I am wrong , but I hear that many staff of Alitalia actually do no ( or very little ) work at all , but the unions support them anyway ( in fact , these people probably spend their lives running the union ? ). They must all vote for the government every time ? Just like Cyprus , the other smoke and mirrors outfit .
We are all very jealous of these guys , having endless government support to do what the hell they like . This is why the majority of pilots in these outfits treat their flying 'job' as a necessary evil to subsidise their other commercial activities.
It would be refreshing ( but extremely unlikely ) that the crew had some professional pride in restoring some order in their National airline .
Fat chance.
Someone please ban the unions.