How will Ita be with Altavilla (and what will happen to Alitalia)
The board of directors of Ita has approved the binding offer to be sent to the extraordinary administration of Alitalia for the purchase of the assets necessary to manage the Aviation sector. All the details
Ita ready to take off after Alitalia. Here are news, details, problems and scenarios.
ITA'S OFFER FOR ALITALIA
The board of directors of Ita yesterday approved the binding offer to be sent to the extraordinary administration of Alitalia for the purchase of the assets necessary to manage the Aviation sector, an indispensable prerequisite for the development of the company's business. The implementation of the plan for the start of operations as of October 15 is also continuing.
THE NUMBERS OF THE OFFER
The binding offer for Alitalia's assets includes 52 aircraft, a related number of slots, as well as contracts and ancillary assets of the Aviation branch to start operations on 15 October.
THE FLIGHTS
At midnight, Alitalia stopped selling tickets for flights from 15 October. The marketing of tickets for Ita flights will begin on 26 August. In addition, Covisian was selected, through a tender between various operators, as operator of the new Ita customer center, operated using cloud technologies in collaboration with partners such as Salesforce and Amazon Web.
SERVICE
The service will be provided by Italy. In addition, again from August 26, the site for the collection of applications from people interested in working in Ita is operational. For the 25th of August a meeting with the trade unions has been called, at 10.30 am, to start negotiations on the new employment contract.
TICKETS
In the meantime, Alitalia has begun to send e-mails to passengers affected by cancellations, giving the possibility to request a refund or to replace the flight with another equivalent operated by Alitalia by 14 October. As is known for these passengers – there are about 257 thousand reservations – the government has made a fund of 100 million euros available. The Ministry of Economic Development is working on a "ticket decree".
THE NUMBERS
As said, the Ita Board of Directors yesterday transformed the offer sent on August 16 to Alitalia for the acquisition of the "Aviation" branch (to be completed no earlier than September 7) into binding, which includes – the Corriere della Sera recalled today – slots, intellectual property rights, contracts and the rental of 52 aircraft (7 Airbus A330, 27 A320, 17 A319 and one Embraer). According to the experts consulted by the Courier, their leasing at current market values costs a total of 6.5 million euros per month to ITA, which in September will say whether the new jets will be Airbus or Boeing.
THE SIGHTS OF ALTAVILLA
Then there is the issue of personnel. In the letter of convocation of the executive president Alfredo Altavilla, the initial staff of ITA should be 2,800 employees (to rise to 5,750 in four years): 1,550 crews, about 1,250 ground personnel. Everyone must have the anti-Covid Green pass. On these numbers there is a bit of discontent among the unions, Corsera remarked.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/come-sara-ita-con-altavilla-e-che-fine-fara-alitalia/ on Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:16:50 +0000.