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Ciao, Alitalia. “The Pope’s Airline, Alitalia, to Fly Last Flight”
Alitalia may have had its faults, but how many airlines can claim to have been the “pope’s airline” for over five centuries? (www.nytimes.com) 기타...
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Sad to see it's demise if for no other reason than that it had one of the most iconic and elegant liveries in the Airline business. The successor airline - ITA - bought the rights to the Alitalia brand so I suspect we will see the livery revived on the ITA fleet - the ITA livery is very uninspiring so I suspect it is just a placeholder and soon will will see the old familiar livery. Be stupid for ITA not to use the Alitalia brand since it contains so much value. Some things cannot be improved upon.
I reasd somewhere that they don't intend to use it. they probably bought it so no one else could own it.
Yeah, mainly to use the website to direct traffic to the new site.
When SABENA went bust in 2001, the successor SN Brussels airlines went for a different livery. However, the SABENA livery was a good recognition point for the local populace in former Belgian colonies in Africa.
But I rate "SABENA" as the best ever abbreviation ("Such A Bl**dy Experience, Never Again").
Second only after the airline of Honduras, SAHSA ("Stay At Home, Stay Alive") which we were fortunate to have "experienced" in the 1970s.
But I rate "SABENA" as the best ever abbreviation ("Such A Bl**dy Experience, Never Again").
Second only after the airline of Honduras, SAHSA ("Stay At Home, Stay Alive") which we were fortunate to have "experienced" in the 1970s.
It's abundantly clear by paragraph 5 and 6 this is satire!!
for 500 years of papal careful transportation, Alitalia sure had its ups and downs, bumkpy landings and turbulence. But they , no matter how hard they sought to remedy their misfiring public reputation, could never shake the union troubles, the mechanical faults, the overstaffing and now they are no more.We legions of passengers will now need a new term of exasperation, because "Alitalia" is kaput, no more, a dead parrot of an airline. Thanks for the memories of fully marble craft, luxury service (at times) of the hometown airline of Rome and Vatican City. We passengers got frequent clear examples of bad times that the Pope never saw, sitting on his throne in first class. Goodbye to the thousands of excess employees, who had perfected sitting around doing nothing and sitting around blending into the walls and floors doing nothing. SO long to the cabin staff, lovely ladies and gents strolling softly about, as if auditioning forTV weatherperson slots, nary a coke or bottle of water anywhere nearby. The race to the bottom for airline on-time performance and financial incompetence has lost its shinng star. The new airline, looking much like the old airline, has very little to surpass.
