Alitalia to cease flying

[shorty]

Alitalia, Italy's national airline, founded in 1947, is to cease flying as of October 15th. Founded in 1946 the airline has been on life support for some time, been bankrupt since 2017 and the Covid downturn was the final straw. A smaller airline, ITA, is mooted to take it's place,

[Dave Homewood]

That's a real shame.

[FlyingKiwi]

Sad to see but inevitable really, the writing has been on the wall for them for a long time even before Covid, as you say. They have one of my favourite current liveries of the major European airlines.