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.