Comments on: Alitalia’s Not Quite Dead Yet, But It’s Close

By: mechanic x

mechanic x — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:44:53 +0000

expressjet teamsters = alitalia union mooks. the mentality sounds alot like our italian friends. they’d rather vote down a necessary pay cut deal and lose their jobs than take the cut and keep the jobs. me personally, if they want to do something like, say , strike, they better not stand in my way on the way into the parking lot on strike day. i will run them down with my car. i have a family to feed.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:10:24 +0000

We love Alitalia – You are far from my worst nightmare . . . more like a fun sparring partner than anything else. But as I said above, I will be posting on this tomorrow. If you read my previous posts, you will see that I rarely discuss customer service (maybe once or twice). That is not why I say Alitalia is the worst airline. It could be the best around on customer service, for all I know, but the anecdotes from others say otherwise. I am referring to the bungling management, government over-involvement, and intransigent unions that combine to make the worst airline ever. You think this deal is going to suddenly create a fully functioning airline? No way.

By: We love Alitalia

We love Alitalia — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:17:38 +0000

Cristi!
Unfortunately I don’ t leave in Italy. But I leave Italy and I ll fly Alitalia for ever!

By: We love Alitalia

We love Alitalia — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:13:45 +0000

Cranky,
I understand that by apologizing you will admit your mistakes. Doesn’t matter. If you pretend to be the expert of the airlines you should make sure updated on what you are writing/talking. All unions, pilots and cabin crews signed the plan for the New Alitalia yesterday. At this link you can even find the agreement (http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Finanza%20e%20Mercati/2008/09/contratto-alitalia-documenti.shtml?uuid=ae989964-8e3e-11dd-aadf-8a371e451c08&DocRulesView=Libero).
And again Alitalia is not worst than any of the airlines you worked with, I’m wondering if you did ever fly with us. Should you try I can give you a very good rate!
Your daily nightmare

By: CF

CF — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0000

I’ll have a post tomorrow.

By: We love Alitalia

We love Alitalia — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:18:06 +0000

Come on Cranky! Please give us your feed-back. We need your experience! How do you explain LH and AF are both fighting for a partnership with Alitalia?

By: CF

CF — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:04:28 +0000

Cristi – I agree that there probably won’t be a fuss and that Alitalia will live on. It will be interesting to see if they can actually craft a profitable airline out of this. I’m obviously skeptical.

By: Cristi

Cristi — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:37:49 +0000

CF – The biggest union of crew members (pilots and stewards) have agreed on the contracts Saturday. There is still a small union (900 stewards and 800 ground personals) that will go for the talks tomorrow. I think that there will not be fuss… and everybody will agree on new contracts and other stuff. I think that Alitalia deserves a chance and I think that the great people working for it will do their best under a very good new management!

We love Alitalia – if you are working at the Malpensa base I’ll have some 6 hours between my flights on Thursday. If you want we can have a coffee and a small chat about the company both we love (me… as a passenger).

By: CF

CF — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:28:35 +0000

Cristi – There was never a plan to shut down the airline and strand 20,000 employees without work. I believe that the worst plan in terms of employee cuts saw a 5,000 person reduction. I have no doubt that most of those people would have found work at other airlines as they come in to pick up the slack. Those airlines would have been able to better serve Italy than Alitalia does now, and it would have been better for passengers.

We love Alitalia – I haven’t written an update, because nothing is done. The flight attendants still have not agreed to a plan, and while I expect that may happen, I’m just going to wait until it does before writing.

I also will not be apologizing. I still consider Alitalia to be the worst airline ever, and I’m glad it will continue to live on so that I can continue to write about it’s deficiencies.

By: We love Alitalia

We love Alitalia — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:09:34 +0000

Come on Cranky
Come on! Update the information and please apologize with Alitalia, Alitalia employees and your readers. You were wrong.
And please delet your slogan about us (I work for Alitalia) you worked for much worst airlines, most of them didnt exist anymore!