The Italian airline Alitalia is currently discontinuing direct flights between Rome and New York. The society nationalized because of the serious problems will then no longer have long-haul flights.
The unions disagree with the move. They fear that travelers will now board with competitors Air France and KLM and may not return. In addition, the Italians are now being deprived of the opportunity to fly directly from Italy to the United States.
The flights will in any case be suspended until the end of May. According to Alitalia because there is no longer enough demand and because of the high number of corona infections in New York.
The state-appointed curator at a society that rarely managed to make a profit even without a corona crisis, said last week that demand had declined 95 percent in the first three weeks of April.
The Italian government is investing 500 million euros in Alitalia and, if everything goes according to plan, will become full owner in June.
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