Alitalia crisis meetings restart

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Source: BBC

Emergency talks to prevent the collapse of Alitalia have restarted in Rome after the airline warned it may have to start cancelling flights from Monday.

With the airline saying it is running out of money to buy aviation fuel, the government needs to persuade unions to back a deal that involves job cuts.

The only offer on the table is from Italian consortium CAI, which only wants Alitalia's profitable operations.

Unions have so far rejected this deal as it would mean major job losses.



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Great -- now even the *national* airlines are going bankrupt.

Maybe we need Europeans to be voting in US elections.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. Alitalia has been a basket case since the 70's

they have been on the brink of collapse when oil was cheap

[fedsron2us]

2. Is n't this scheduled into the official calendar

like the constant changes of Italian government.