Do you know how much it costs to fly with Alitalia?
Flying with Alitalia, waiting for it to become Ita, has disproportionate costs. Marco Foti's speech
Interregional mobility is the engine of the economy in our area and the importance of the "mobility system" is now known to all as the "automotive and services" sector is worth over 10% of Italian GDP. Moving between the regions, now all in the yellow zone, means using the various long-distance modes of transport, including airplanes, with great difficulty.
Well, have you tried to organize a return trip this week for strictly necessary reasons (work) in a city located in a region other than your origin?
I do. A disaster.
By plane it is practically impossible to move, costs not very high, costs absolutely unsustainable (as shown in the photo).
Genoa-Palermo, A / R, with Alitalia, the ticket costs just under 800 euros. It seems to go back to the 80s when flying was a luxury for a select few.
Unfortunately, the point is another one and it directly affects our emeritus asset Alitalia, waiting for it to become Ita. The various decrees have kindly donated the modest sum of 3 billion euros to the carrier's coffers.
In essence, the State has transferred an amount equal to the same volume of business declared by the company in 2018.
Consequently, the new company (whose operation is still under the spotlight of the European Commission since, according to the new temporary EU framework, state interventions for recapitalisations cannot concern companies already in difficulty before 31 December 2019) it has all the credentials to fly Italian citizens (being nationalized, you will say, it is the minimum), with an available fleet declared in unsuspecting times of 92 aircraft, "more than enough to satisfy ordinary activity".
With this in mind, the old CEO of Alitalia drew up the profile of the future company with an industrial plan that focused on the “premium” market sector as “focusing on low fares means committing suicide. A carrier like Alitalia is a completely different structure from a low cost one. Costs must be the obsession of the management of the new company, because efficiency is fundamental, but not to be pursued on the ground of low prices. The road is that of long-haul flights, the first will be able to enter in 2022. In this market segment, in the absence of competition from low cost, there is a huge prospect ”.
However, time is now not in favor of Ita, the Alitalia emergency worsens, now under extraordinary administration, and the take-off times of the newco are getting longer. So, pending the (re) birth of the new Alitalia, and the reorganization plan of the sector by MIT and never released, there could be an economic recovery solution.
Why not aim, even in the case of the new Alitalia, at the domestic market whose relations could withstand the crisis anticipated by all the agencies in the sector? A solution that would bring new life to the market in the sector and that economic dynamism that is so much needed today by the companies that manage Italian airports.
The new Ita Industrial Plan must necessarily be revised and integrated with the aforementioned assessments, to protect the many workers in the airport sector, about 40 thousand, who had 186 days of layoffs for each employee in 2020.
And it is necessary to do quickly so that Ita has a level of service suited to the needs of Italians, avoiding running into dramatic scenes like those seen today.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/lo-sapete-quanto-costa-volare-con-alitalia/ on Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:46:04 +0000.