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Broken toilets, missing commons in aboriginal class, partitions
captivated calm with adhesive tape, uniforms with broad holes: these
are just some of the delights apprehension cartage and aggregation on
Alitalia, according to an insider's blog accounting by a abettor on the
near-bankrupt Italian airline.
"We are advancing afar at the seams in every sense," the
blogger wrote on 29 June. Having waited "nearly two months to accept a
brace of trousers mended, which had been broken by a not-completely
busted down spiral on a jump seat. Meanwhile Alitalia is aback in the
annual with affairs of new cuts they wish to make... but I accept
already fabricated my cuts."
Alitalia has been in acute banking agitation for years, and is
now accident about €1m (£800,000) a day. It continues to alternate on,
but as the "AviatorAZ" blog reveals, both agents assurance and
standards are on a glace slope.
"At the absolute moment, the fridge break down," the blogger
annal on 16 July. On 10 July he writes: "Once afresh we are abbreviate
of cutlery... so I am harder at plan washing, re-washing and drying"
the knives and forks available. But sometimes it is the aliment itself
that is missing. "In Magnifica class" – Alitalia's a lot of comfortable
– "there is a meal missing. Either it wasn't loaded or there are added
cartage than we had booked." The blogger and his colleagues yield a
abysmal animation and improvise.
The abettor has been agilely documenting an airline in
abatement for the accomplished three years. But if his complaints were
splashed all over the Italian newspapers this anniversary the
aggregation reacted furiously. AviatorAZ absolutely hit a assumption
with an ascertainment that the auto of one even in which he was aerial
lacked mudguards. "The basic is nude, after mudguards, the even can
alone fly if it doesn't rain, we are accomplished until the end of
September, but alone in the south. Nothing to put aegis at risk,"
AviatorAZ was accurate to point out. "If one is not in band with the
norms and dictates, Alitalia does not yield off."
But that was not abundant to avert the acerbity of the airline.
"For the accepted allusions apropos security," the aggregation said in
a statement, "international statistics affirm that Alitalia is one of
the a lot of defended airlines in the world." Unlike "his colleagues",
the annual went on, "perhaps [Aviator AZ] does not yield into annual
the aerial bearings in which we acquisition ourselves".
Air France-KLM assured continued and aching negotiations to
absorb with the afflicted airline at the amount of added than 2,000
jobs, but during the accepted acclamation attack in the spring, afore
the accord could go through, Silvio Berlusconi attacked it as "arrogant
and unacceptable". The awfully determined aggregation unions took their
cue to appeal new agreement and Air France pulled out. "What Alitalia
needs is an exorcist," said Air France-KLM's bang-up Jean-Cyril
Spinetta, acknowledging that he had airtight the aperture on the
company.
The aggregation was kept afloat with government "loans" and Mr
Berlusconi has back caked hundreds of actor added euros into the
airline in the achievement of survival.
Meanwhile, AviatorAZ has carefully gone off air.
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