Alitalia to BHX!

Their brave. They must be confident that they can strike a deal with the unions but i don’t see how. They only have one plan and the unions rejected it because it shed a quarter of the workforce, plus the Italien Government have showed their willingness to let Alitalia go bankrupt. Like you sed galdri, they say they run out of cash at the end of September. If they do go I wonder who’ll take over the Rome & Milan hubs? I can see a smaller airline emerging taking over part of Milan like Swiss came from Swissair but I can’t see the viability of operating Rome as a second hub. Thats partly Alitalias problem;to keep both political parties happy they have to operate a hub for the north & a hub for the south which results in more costs and less profit because their simply isn’t the demand for that bigger network at Rome.

I was supposed to go to Sicily this month, and Alitalia were the only realistic choice. BA for some reason, had no capacity for the return trip.

Sadly I decided that I couldn’t risk my company’s cash with an airline that’s about to go bankrupt. So the trip was cancelled in favour of a less than ideal meeting in Linz next year.

What would that be, about a 2 hour flight

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What would that be, about a 2 hour flight

Not so, danairboy. The Manchester service is operated by A319s.

Alitalia did use Emb170s (doubled up with Emb145 on Saturdays) on the route throughout the month of August while the A319s were needed elsewhere during the traditional peak Italian holiday month, but the route has now reverted to A319s.

MD80? I thought the EMB170 would have been better suited capacity wise, after all they use them for MAN

Well lets hope not 😉 🙂

Hummmmm I don’t think Alitalia will be around to get this new service off the ground. Latest on the grapevine, is that they will be bankrupt by the end of september.

Good to see a foreign national carrier operating more services into a UK regional(ie. non-London) airport.