Alitalia
 

Alitalia cancels 44 flights
22/01/2006 15:10 PM

Rome - Alitalia cancelled 44 flights on Sunday because of continued labour unrest, the second day in a row Italy's struggling national carrier has had to scrap flights because of wildcat walkouts.
Italy's main unions, meanwhile, met at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport to discuss whether to proceed with a threatened full-day strike starting on Monday - the second in a week.

Italian news agencies ANSA and Apcom said the walkout was cancelled pending the outcome of a meeting with the government scheduled for Wednesday.
Alitalia said in a statement that as of Sunday morning it had to cancel 44 out of 130 flights scheduled across its network for Sunday, saying "illegal union initiatives" were to blame. On Saturday it scrapped 66 flights.

Ground crews, including baggage handlers and airplane maintenance workers, had refused to work on Saturday and ground crews were continuing to cause the problems, Alitalia said.
Union officials have said the protests stemmed from a breakdown in negotiations with the government.

Workers are protesting restructuring plans at the loss-making airline, which have included cutting jobs and spinning off the airline's flight unit from its less profitable ground services business.

On Thursday, Alitalia's employees went on a one-day strike.

http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/defa...8-1783_1867314

Can anyone supply any figures reference strikes involving Italian aviation, and whether it compares with other European countries?

About time this useless loss making airline was folded!

Alitalia
 

Going into their 6th day of strikes. 225 flights cancelled so far. Share prices dropped 9% today (Monday).

Alitalia buys Volare??
 

they should just rebrand their pencil jets 'Alitalia Connect' seems to be the fashion at the minute :\

Good question......where would 'AliMafia' get the money from, seeing that they are practically broke, anyway????
Or is LH taking over? After all, LH has a tendency to buy broke companies....
Probably just another rumour.

Cheers,

Ikarus :-)

Were there any assets actually owned by Volare?
Most were leased and returned to their owners when the crooks running that show got caught.
What happened to the pilots and their salaries and pensions?
Another embarrasing corporate disaster.

Advertising jingle for Volare
 

Volare, the non-striking subsidiary of Alitalia.

:E

MILAN (AFX) - Alitalia SpA's plan to acquire Italy's Volare airline as the group's low-cost arm has been blocked by a Rome court, said Radiocor news agency, citing a court judgement issued Jan 27.

Late Friday, Alitalia confirmed its 38 mln eur bid for Volare in an auction organised by Volare's administrator, saying Volare would fit with its business plan and support low-cost operations from Milan.

The judge 'forbids (Alitalia) from participating in the auction organised by the administrator' of Volare, said Radiocor citing the judgement. The court accepted a challenge from Italian rival AirOne to Alitalia's bidding in the auction, it said.

I-FORD

Thanks for the clarification; didn't know that there were so many 'friendly cousins' around!
OK, that's the assets side...and what about the liabilities???

Even so, with such big sums involved, those 29 million Euros for Volare are just chickenfeed....

Still, I wish them luck and if they succeed to maintain a few more jobs in trouble-ridden Italian Aviation, the better!

Cheers,

Ikarus

As far as I know its more than "just the money", AZ and Airone had to present
a plan, about what they will do with Volare, with the saff, Money etc.
Volare created a point system for this and AZ got the most points.

I hope that this means that me and my fellows will finaly get the few thousend Euros that Volare still owns us.:uhoh:

Alitalia Strikes
 

Didn't Alitalia recently almost close it's doors due to financial difficulty? Then why do the employees think it't a good idea to strike and put the company in more jeopardy?:confused:

I FORD

That's an interesting assessment of the situation.

What happens to crew members who do not wish to join a strike?

Alitalia?
 

Hi, hope this is in the correct forum but can somebody explain why most of Alitalia's a/c are Irish registered, well 'EI' anyway?

Regards, Steve

It`s all to do with the leasing company which is Irish and I beieve they put all the aircraft on the Irish register as it makes it easier to get the aircraft back if there are payment problems

G-I-B

Steve,

Just to let you know only 20 or so out of 170ish frames are registered to the EI- register.

However it seems something that happens a lot in Italy. Air One, Blue Panorama, Meridiana, Myair and Windjet all have lots of Ei- registered aircraft.

Doesn't seem to happen in many other countries.

YD

Strange to have Irish registrations. Does anyone know why?

Some Russian airlines have their aircraft registered EI too.

Irish registered planes
 

The owners must have an Irish aviation licence if the planes are Irish registered. The advantage of this is that you can make your employees work longer hours than on other EU aviation licences. This has been key to the success of Irish airline Ryanair whose entire fleet is Irish registered