Italy has become the first European country to resume commercial flights to Libya following the toppling of the Kaddafi Government. Wednesday saw Alitalia carry a flight with 100 passengers –many of whom were religious leaders and diplomats – from Rome airport to Libya’s capital city. Goffredo Buccino, the new Italian ambassador to its former colony [...]

As airlines around the globe continue to monitor the situation with a damaged nuclear facility in Japan, Singapore Airlines has announced that it will not be launching a new A380 service between Los Angeles and Tokyo. The carrier said that new route would be postponed because of a drop in demand to Japan’s capital in [...]

The Vatican has said that in order to avoid the possibility of disruption due to strikes by British Airways’ cabin crew, the Pope will be flying to and from the UK, when he makes his official visit in the autumn, with Alitalia, the Italian state airline. Tradition usually dictates that the Pope flies back to [...]

The joint venture by Europe’s Air France-KLM and Delta Airlines in the US to share revenues and costs on transatlantic routes was strengthened this week when Italy’s Alitalia announced that it would be joining the team. With the Italian flag carrier on board, the venture, which is not a merger, will control just over a [...]

Holidaymakers across Europe should expect more chaos, as the strike held by British Airways (BA) staff continues and labour conflicts in other carriers. BA cabin crew had ended their strike at midnight on Monday, but plan to start the strike again this Saturday. The UK national carrier announced that during the first two days of the [...]

Yesterday, the SDL union, who represents pilots, flight attendants, and ground workers, staged the first strike on the new Alitalia, only one week after the relaunch of the carrier. The strike lasted for 4 hours, beginning at 10am, and was called in order to protest the policies for hiring new workers at the new airline. [...]

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 [...]

The government has approved the €1 billion bid for Alitalia from the Italian Air Company, an investment consortium. Claudio Scajola, the Economic Development Minister, authorized Augusto Fantozzi, the special administrator over Alitalia, to move forward with selling the airline’s assets for no less than €1.052 billion. The approval came last Wednesday during the final takeover [...]

Travelers faced more airport chaos while Alitalia planned on cutting 50 flights due to the strike action at airports in Italy. There were delays, cancellations, and long lines awaiting travelers following a wildcat strike involving some of Alitalia’s workers, forcing the airline to cut dozens of their flights. Some of the disputes were so heated [...]

Alitalia is on the verge of rescue, as the state-controlled airline is being courted by an Italian investment consortium. However, the investors are threatening to pull their bid and funding guarantees unless Alitalia can guarantee union approval of the plan. For days, the parties have been negotiating between airline employees, the head of CAI (the [...]