Alitalia is dead; long live Alitalia
Late on Thursday night Alitalia will make its final flight. AZ1586 from Cagliari to Rome is scheduled to depart at 22:05 local time, arriving in...
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Is the Alitalia brand really worth $340 million??
Italy's newest airline may be forced to pay far more than it hoped to keep the Alitalia brand alive. Reports suggest a starting price of...
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DLD 343: That probably won’t work
They might all be terrible ideas, but we're still going to talk about them and figure out if any of it makes sense.
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When the job helps beat your travel bucket list
Do you have a dozen places you want to visit? Would it help if someone else footed the bill? And if you have a diplomatic...
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Goodbye, Meridiana; Hello, Air Italy!
Italy has a new airline this week and it is not toying around. Expect roughly 50 aircraft to be flying from the Milan-based Air Italy...
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Alitalia seeks stopover success
Can adding free stopovers in Rome help turn Alitalia's fortunes around? The carrier hopes to deliver a half million extra travelers to Italy's capital (and...
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Qatar Airways goes Italian, picks up chunk of Meridiana
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A large airline based in the Middle East is taking a significant stake in a struggling Italian...
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Alitalia’s bankruptcy to protect 30% of revenues
Alitalia filed for bankruptcy protection in the USA today with nearly a third of the company's total revenue stream at risk. Creditors are coming hard...
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Alitalia: Choosing suicide over sacrifice
Flying on Alitalia in the near future? Are you sure of that? The beleaguered Italian flag carrier's employees rejected a deal on Monday that was...
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And then there was that night we slept in the same bedroom as the new Pope
It was just over two years ago, in February 2011. It was St. Valentine’s Day, in fact. Maybe that should’ve been a tip-off that there...
