Rome
At 74 years old, twenty of them in agony on a drip, Alitalia died Thursday after her last flight.
It will have cost 13 billion euros to the Italian taxpayer in forty-seven years, according to
Il Sole 24 ore.
It did not know how to invest and develop to take advantage of the liberalization of the sky, it lost control of its domestic market, and it missed, for political reasons, two marriages: one with KLM in 1999, the 'another with Air France in 2008.
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ITA, a new company started from scratch with 3 billion in public capital, is only a fraction of Alitalia, from which it has taken over the brand.
It started with 52 planes (120 for Alitalia) and 2,800 employees (against 10,500), recruited under conditions 30% to 40% lower than those of Alitalia.
ITA does not control its maintenance or handling and only serves 36 destinations.
With 7 long-haul planes (compared to 26), it hardly has any intercontinental lines, those which accounted for half of Alitalia's turnover:
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