Strikes, delays, cancellations & Alitalia talks profit

Whilst pilots, attendants and ground crew threaten with strike about job cuts, after the merger with AirOne, Alitalia CEO Rocco Sabelli talks about a financial recovery after the major restructuring taking place. What Mr Sabelli has not talked about is any improvement in the key areas

So has the situation changed?

"a better financial future at our expense"

Before the 2008 sale, Alitalia was collapsing after years of posting a loss and mounting huge debt. However Alitalia's name is still synonymous with lost luggage, bad customer service, flight delays and union strikes.

So the recovery Mr Sabelli talks about, should be for the lost faith in his company's ability to respect it's customers, before he insults everyone by presenting their better financial future at our expense.

Bought, merged but Alitalia is still crap

According to a latest report from the Financial Times, Alitalia is still failing to amend it's corporate ways, despite the recent takeover deal and the merger with Air One.

One in three aircraft of the Italian airline's flights out of its principal hub at Rome's Fiumicino airport are delayed. So you cannot blame Alitalia for sticking to their principles:

"Always late in take-off, always late in arriving"

We promise to shut down this blog only on two special occassions:

• If Alitalia ceases to trade
• If I get a refund for my stolen bag and items

All the best

Your angry customers

Alitalia employee job satisfactions

Pull your finger out...
Push it back in...

Pull it out...
Back in...

Repeat for 100 times before you go about stealing people's luggage.

Alitalia gets rescued but stays the same

Alitalia has sold a 25% stake to Air France / KLM thus for the moment staying afloat. What has changed?
Not much. Alitalia maintains the worst record for losing luggage from all its major airports. To verify this please go to the missing luggage office in Heathrow and watch how there is always a queue in front of the Alitalia desk.

Problems might not go away until 2013 when the Franco Dutch alliance can bid for a controlling stake of the company. Even then we don't know if they will be able to root out the gigantic problems in corporate responsibility, customer services and surprise, surprise, baggage services.

A public apology and a free ticket for all the passengers who lost luggage with no refund, would be nice.

Alitalia is no longer about corporate irresponsibility. It is a national responsibility and Italians should pull their finger out.

The bad dog dies hard

More bad news about the mess called 'Alitalia'. Not only they are completely doomed, but they are also not able to control their workforce with added losses. A true mess.

http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=alitalia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

I have a feeling that they will be soon grounded but let us watch the next 3-6 months.

Bye-Bye Alitalia...

AirFrancce-KLM has taken the green light from the Italian government to place a bid for failing Alitalia and is now trying to approach the Italian carrier's unions.

AirFrance-KLM has already promised cash injections into the loss-making airline, but the real issue, for both the carrier's unions and Alitalia's Chairman, seems to be the Franco-Dutch airline's intention to get rid of the loss-making 'AZ Servizi' unit of Alitalia - but obviously for different reasons.

Promises from the Franco-Dutch airline went as a combined AirFrance-KLM-Alitalia group to be listed on the Milan stock exchange.

But just to remind us that there is no black and white in business, Mr Spinetta has also confirmed that if the merge of the two airlines completes successfully, there will be a need to eliminate approximately 1,700 jobs.

PS: That was the good news from me, guys! ;)

More hatemail? Surely a misunderstanding

The number of people blogging for (or rather against) Alitalia is growing. The latest fashionable anti-Alitalia craze has been growing with the help of http://alitalia.blog.co.uk/

The blog is dedicated into the common cause of bringing Alitalia to it's knees, making a same impossible and destroying the brand.

The airline's disrespectful and unethical business tactics have enraged passengers across the globe. Time for the Italian boys to go home and stop flying planes they can't manage.

Cheers!

http://alitalia.blog.co.uk/

Alitalia name origin

Didn't you always wonder where the Alitalia name is coming from?

ALITALIA - Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival

or even:

ALITALIA - Air Line In Tokyo And Luggage In Amsterdam

Does it all make sense now?