During the Christmas holiday, passengers amounting in the hundreds found themselves stranded at the Fiumicino Airport in Rome for the second day Tuesday in a row due to the most recent round of strikes from workers of Alitalia.  Alitalia ground service workers at the airport walked away from their jobs Monday in order to have union discussions about their futures, with a business consortium getting ready to relaunch the airline next year.

After almost 100 canceled flights on Monday, a further 43 services were canceled on Tuesday, according to the carrier.  Mirea Mitrofan, a passenger trying to get to Bucharest, complained the airline didn’t do much to comfort the passengers who were stranded.  Mitrofan said that there was no food or water; and only some of the passengers were put up for the night in hotels, but some of them still had to sleep on the floor of the airport.

The ANSA said that anger began to boil into chants that enough is enough from passengers who were waiting at the ticketing counter of the airline early on Tuesday.

Earlier this year, Alitalia filed for bankruptcy, and their best assets have been purchased by the Italian Air Company, a business consortium who plans to integrate the carrier with AirOne, a domestic rival.  The bankruptcy commissioner of the airline posted an advertisement in the news Tuesday in order to announce the sale of the 46 planes of the Alitalia, as well as to ask for interested buyers to come forward by January 29^th.

Learn more about the carrier at:  www.alitalia.com