The last flight in Alitalia’s history took off last night at 10.36 pm, half an hour late. Flight AZ 01586 Cagliari-Rome landed in Fiumicino, thus closing a nearly 75-year history for the former national airline. Practically full plane, with about 180 passengers on board, at the yoke the commander Andrea Gioia, 55, 15 thousand hours of flight, trained at the Alitalia flight school. A flight that takes on an even more symbolic value since it was also the last ‘tricolor’ connection with Sardinia, which has always been served by Alitalia. Waiting for him, in addition to the family and friends of travelers, also the mayor of Fiumicino, Foreigner Montino, which has always followed the daring fate of the Italian company based in the small town of Lazio.
“I went to the gate to greet the crew and symbolically all the more than 10,500 Alitalia workers”, Montino told TPI. “After the decision to close the company in this way, a company that has made the history of Italy and beyond, it seemed our duty as a city to bring our greetings. Despite everything we have tried to do, the hearings, the proposals and the discussions, we have gone in a completely different direction ”, comments the mayor bitterly.
How bitter is the start of Ita that today began with the first flights. “The basic theme is that we entered the international civil aviation market with a decision exactly in contrast to all the other companies in the world. Nobody makes a regional company any more, which is minimal in size. The market holds up with a global vision. especially intercontinental, it does not handle routes that are domestic or European, there are low cost ones, and they do not stop them, they are competitive “.
As for Sardinia, in the tender for territorial continuity, Volotea got the better of Ita: from today it is the Spanish low cost carrier that guarantees connections from the three Sardinian airports to Rome and Milan at discounted rates for residents of the island. . “The three Sardinian routes – Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari – were won by Volotea, which made a decrease of 42%. But how can you make a race at the maximum downside? ”, Montino wonders.
“There is no vision, that’s the problem. There is someone very high up who has decided that civil aviation here should not be carried out by Italians. For Fiumicino city Alitalia has represented and continues to represent an important piece of history, including the social economy that gravitates around the company. We have thousands of workers who are in Alitalia and who suddenly find themselves in difficulty. Now there is the induced, which nobody talks about. A small company of 40 workers that carried out small maintenance interventions was well served. I met them, but nobody takes care of them ”.
The last flight in Alitalia’s history took off last night at 10.36 pm, half an hour late. Flight AZ 01586 Cagliari-Rome landed in Fiumicino, thus closing a nearly 75-year history for the former national airline. Practically full plane, with about 180 passengers on board, at the yoke the commander Andrea Gioia, 55, 15 thousand hours of flight, trained at the Alitalia flight school. A flight that takes on an even more symbolic value since it was also the last ‘tricolor’ connection with Sardinia, which has always been served by Alitalia. Waiting for him, in addition to the family and friends of travelers, also the mayor of Fiumicino, Foreigner Montino, which has always followed the daring fate of the Italian company based in the small town of Lazio.
“I went to the gate to greet the crew and symbolically all the more than 10,500 Alitalia workers”, Montino told TPI. “After the decision to close the company in this way, a company that has made the history of Italy and beyond, it seemed our duty as a city to bring our greetings. Despite everything we have tried to do, the hearings, the proposals and the discussions, we have gone in a completely different direction ”, comments the mayor bitterly.
How bitter is the start of Ita that today began with the first flights. “The basic theme is that we entered the international civil aviation market with a decision exactly in contrast to all the other companies in the world. Nobody makes a regional company any more, which is minimal in size. The market holds up with a global vision. especially intercontinental, it does not handle routes that are domestic or European, there are low cost ones, and they do not stop them, they are competitive “.
As for Sardinia, in the tender for territorial continuity, Volotea got the better of Ita: from today it is the Spanish low cost carrier that guarantees connections from the three Sardinian airports to Rome and Milan at discounted rates for residents of the island. . “The three Sardinian routes – Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari – were won by Volotea, which made a decrease of 42%. But how can you make a race at the maximum downside? ”, Montino wonders.
“There is no vision, that’s the problem. There is someone very high up who has decided that civil aviation here should not be carried out by Italians. For Fiumicino city Alitalia has represented and continues to represent an important piece of history, including the social economy that gravitates around the company. We have thousands of workers who are in Alitalia and who suddenly find themselves in difficulty. Now there is the induced, which nobody talks about. A small company of 40 workers that carried out small maintenance interventions was well served. I met them, but nobody takes care of them ”.
The last flight in Alitalia’s history took off last night at 10.36 pm, half an hour late. Flight AZ 01586 Cagliari-Rome landed in Fiumicino, thus closing a nearly 75-year history for the former national airline. Practically full plane, with about 180 passengers on board, at the yoke the commander Andrea Gioia, 55, 15 thousand hours of flight, trained at the Alitalia flight school. A flight that takes on an even more symbolic value since it was also the last ‘tricolor’ connection with Sardinia, which has always been served by Alitalia. Waiting for him, in addition to the family and friends of travelers, also the mayor of Fiumicino, Foreigner Montino, which has always followed the daring fate of the Italian company based in the small town of Lazio.
“I went to the gate to greet the crew and symbolically all the more than 10,500 Alitalia workers”, Montino told TPI. “After the decision to close the company in this way, a company that has made the history of Italy and beyond, it seemed our duty as a city to bring our greetings. Despite everything we have tried to do, the hearings, the proposals and the discussions, we have gone in a completely different direction ”, comments the mayor bitterly.
How bitter is the start of Ita that today began with the first flights. “The basic theme is that we entered the international civil aviation market with a decision exactly in contrast to all the other companies in the world. Nobody makes a regional company any more, which is minimal in size. The market holds up with a global vision. especially intercontinental, it does not handle routes that are domestic or European, there are low cost ones, and they do not stop them, they are competitive “.
As for Sardinia, in the tender for territorial continuity, Volotea got the better of Ita: from today it is the Spanish low cost carrier that guarantees connections from the three Sardinian airports to Rome and Milan at discounted rates for residents of the island. . “The three Sardinian routes – Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari – were won by Volotea, which made a decrease of 42%. But how can you make a race at the maximum downside? ”, Montino wonders.
“There is no vision, that’s the problem. There is someone very high up who has decided that civil aviation here should not be carried out by Italians. For Fiumicino city Alitalia has represented and continues to represent an important piece of history, including the social economy that gravitates around the company. We have thousands of workers who are in Alitalia and who suddenly find themselves in difficulty. Now there is the induced, which nobody talks about. A small company of 40 workers that carried out small maintenance interventions was well served. I met them, but nobody takes care of them ”.
The last flight in Alitalia’s history took off last night at 10.36 pm, half an hour late. Flight AZ 01586 Cagliari-Rome landed in Fiumicino, thus closing a nearly 75-year history for the former national airline. Practically full plane, with about 180 passengers on board, at the yoke the commander Andrea Gioia, 55, 15 thousand hours of flight, trained at the Alitalia flight school. A flight that takes on an even more symbolic value since it was also the last ‘tricolor’ connection with Sardinia, which has always been served by Alitalia. Waiting for him, in addition to the family and friends of travelers, also the mayor of Fiumicino, Foreigner Montino, which has always followed the daring fate of the Italian company based in the small town of Lazio.
“I went to the gate to greet the crew and symbolically all the more than 10,500 Alitalia workers”, Montino told TPI. “After the decision to close the company in this way, a company that has made the history of Italy and beyond, it seemed our duty as a city to bring our greetings. Despite everything we have tried to do, the hearings, the proposals and the discussions, we have gone in a completely different direction ”, comments the mayor bitterly.
How bitter is the start of Ita that today began with the first flights. “The basic theme is that we entered the international civil aviation market with a decision exactly in contrast to all the other companies in the world. Nobody makes a regional company any more, which is minimal in size. The market holds up with a global vision. especially intercontinental, it does not handle routes that are domestic or European, there are low cost ones, and they do not stop them, they are competitive “.
As for Sardinia, in the tender for territorial continuity, Volotea got the better of Ita: from today it is the Spanish low cost carrier that guarantees connections from the three Sardinian airports to Rome and Milan at discounted rates for residents of the island. . “The three Sardinian routes – Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari – were won by Volotea, which made a decrease of 42%. But how can you make a race at the maximum downside? ”, Montino wonders.
“There is no vision, that’s the problem. There is someone very high up who has decided that civil aviation here should not be carried out by Italians. For Fiumicino city Alitalia has represented and continues to represent an important piece of history, including the social economy that gravitates around the company. We have thousands of workers who are in Alitalia and who suddenly find themselves in difficulty. Now there is the induced, which nobody talks about. A small company of 40 workers that carried out small maintenance interventions was well served. I met them, but nobody takes care of them ”.