Skyteam partner Alitalia files for bankrupcy

Old Aug 29, 2008, 12:38 pm
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Skyteam partner Alitalia files for bankrupcy

Not specific to Delta but is pertinent to Skyteam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7588475.stm
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 1:23 pm
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Originally Posted by DMIrishFlyer
Not specific to Delta but is pertinent to Skyteam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7588475.stm
Let's hope it's a chapter 7 liquidation.........

seriously, they have been fussing with this for almost 3 years. It's way past time to have it resolved.
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 1:28 pm
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Let's hope it's a chapter 7 liquidation.........

seriously, they have been fussing with this for almost 3 years. It's way past time to have it resolved.
AMEN!
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MikeyZBT....worried about your LAX-FCO award ticket yet?
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Wonder who'll swoop in a buy them up?
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Originally Posted by stevenryals
Wonder who'll swoop in a buy them up?
Maybe Ryanair?
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 2:09 pm
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Originally Posted by stevenryals
Wonder who'll swoop in a buy them up?
This is the reality (cited by AP) that assures no bidders will be stampeding in with large cash offers:

In a statement Friday, the nine unions representing Alitalia workers said they wanted a say on the entire plan, not just on the labor aspects.
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Originally Posted by lls138
MikeyZBT....worried about your LAX-FCO award ticket yet?
Um, YES! Jeeez. I hate all these other people that are hoping for liquidation. How bout the rest of us that have ticket on Alitalia for next year?

(June of 09 for me...)

Hopefully, it's a reorganization.
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by MikeyZBT
Um, YES! Jeeez. I hate all these other people that are hoping for liquidation. How bout the rest of us that have ticket on Alitalia for next year?

(June of 09 for me...)

Hopefully, it's a reorganization.
Apparently the plan is to split the airline in half and sell one half to another airline - which half will your ticket end up on
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Somewhere on FT I read that this company was started in 1946 and has had one year of profitability since then. It's been bailed out by the government at every needed point from then till now.

Why do we think this time will be any different?

Hi ho Silvio to the rescue...
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 5:35 pm
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> Hi ho Silvio to the rescue...

Can't do it this time. EC regulations...

With this new plan, AZ and AP are merged in a new company sold for a symbolic amount to an ad-hoc consortium of a few friendly businessmen.

Maintenance and all the support side is spun off somehow and the leftovers ("flying AZ") sold to either AF or LH as a short/medium-range airline.
In the AF hypotesis, FCO keeps a few long-range flights (US, Asia ?) If LH buys it will be MXP.

The plan reminds a lot of the previous one a few months ago: sell to AF and let them take care of cuts, downsizing, etc.
In this case though the consortium participants can make some money, courtesy of the government.

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Old Aug 29, 2008, 5:49 pm
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Originally Posted by thesaints
> Hi ho Silvio to the rescue...

Can't do it this time. EC regulations...

It seems to me that Silvio Berlusconi has pretty much ignored the EU or thumbed his nose at them throughout this whole deal.
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Old Aug 29, 2008, 11:08 pm
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Originally Posted by DMIrishFlyer
Apparently the plan is to split the airline in half and sell one half to another airline - which half will your ticket end up on
Well, if it is AF:

(1) it's still skyteam which is good
(2) they "might" keep the LAX-FCO

But, if it is Luftansa

(1) no skyteam, so can't use them
(2) I guess DL would work with me on getting to FCO some other way (hopefully one stop at the max?)

Does that seem logical?
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Originally Posted by MikeyZBT
Well, if it is AF:

(1) it's still skyteam which is good
(2) they "might" keep the LAX-FCO

But, if it is Luftansa

(1) no skyteam, so can't use them
(2) I guess DL would work with me on getting to FCO some other way (hopefully one stop at the max?)

Does that seem logical?
Well, if you ask me, the fact that you have a ticket means that the new entity, regardless of which alliance it is in, will honor that ticket. If DL miles were used to buy this ticket, then DL must have given something to AZ for that ticket, even if it is bartered. SO AZ did receive value for issuing that ticket.

The whole situation is still very much up in the air though. And the unions never seem to miss an opportunity to commit murder-suicide!
The deal that they were to have gotten from AF/KL last Spring was better than much of what the government now proposes.
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Old Aug 30, 2008, 7:03 am
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Originally Posted by 3Cforme
This is the reality (cited by AP) that assures no bidders will be stampeding in with large cash offers:

In a statement Friday, the nine unions representing Alitalia workers said they wanted a say on the entire plan, not just on the labor aspects.
As much as I am not a big fan of unions, the Alitalia workers may have a better idea of how to run the airline than the current managerial staff.
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