Yes, I think the title of this thread is perhaps a little unrealistic. Seems like a fairly normal efficiency strategy to me, and whilst losses in the first quarter of this year at SAS were 10 times greater than last year, I do think there are plenty of airlines out there who would love their first quarter results…Alitalia included, although they have now had another ‘stay of execution’ witha €30o million ‘loan’ from the Italian government, which is just a disaster….what do they want to happen to their airline??