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A union representing flight attendants, ground workers and pilots staged the first strike against the new Alitalia on Monday, a week after the privatized airline took off.
Alitalia began its new life as a privatized company on Tuesday, with its first flights taking off without delay despite worker protests seeking to mar the inauguration of the streamlined national carrier.
Alitalia on Wednesday completed the takeover of its smaller competitor Air One as part of a plan to relaunch Italy's bankrupt national carrier.
Alitalia has canceled about 140 flights at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci in the last two days because of a wildcat strike that left holiday travelers stranded, news reports said Tuesday.
Italian airport officials say 14 flights at Rome's main airport have been canceled because Alitalia ground workers are in union meetings.
Several former top Alitalia officials have been placed under investigation as part of a probe into the national carrier's bankruptcy earlier this year, the ANSA news agency reported Wednesday.
A relaunched Alitalia can take off as long as it guarantees that at least 10 percent of tickets on every flight are for cheap seats, Italy's antitrust agency decided Wednesday.
Buffeted by labor unrest, Alitalia on Monday said it will make "substantial' reductions in the number of flights for two weeks starting Nov. 26.
The European Union's transport chief on Wednesday approved the proposed takeover of bankrupt Italian airline Alitalia by a group of investors, lauding its rebirth as the latest move to change the EU airline sector from an inefficient state-driven industry to a competitive privatized one.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with Alitalia.
Unions for Alitalia pilots and flight attendants have called a strike for Nov. 25.
A group of investors seeking to buy parts of bankrupt airline Alitalia would take on debts and make cash payments for a total of euro1 billion euros ($1.29 billion) in return for taking ownership, the carrier said.
Alitalia's pilots unions, the most vocal opponents of a rescue package for the bankrupt airline, have finally backed the deal after a group of investors agreed to cut the number of pilot layoffs, union officials said.
A group of Italian investors withdrew a bid Thursday to buy Alitalia after six of its nine unions failed to back a rescue plan, a move that edged Italy's national carrier closer to failure.
Alitalia said Friday it has sought bankruptcy protection, taking the first step in a plan to reshape Italy's unprofitable and debt-laden national carrier.
Air France-KLM said Monday its offer to buy struggling Italian airline Alitalia for 139 million euros ($220 million) is "no longer valid," and left no impression that it planned to return with another.
Alitalia's board on Sunday unanimously accepted Air France-KLM's bid valued at $1.1 billion in a move to save the struggling national carrier.
Italy's economics minister on Friday said he supported Air France-KLM's bid for the troubled national carrier Alitalia and announced the companies would open exclusive talks immediately.
Officials in northern Italy are uniting in opposition to Air France-KLM's bid for ailing Alitalia SpA, which would make Rome the nation's only hub at the expense of Milan.
Airliner had near miss with UFOA passenger jet bound for Heathrow Airport had a near miss with a UFO, Ministry of Defence files reveal. The captain of the Alitalia airliner shouted "Look out" to his co-pilot at the sight of a brown missile-shaped object shooting past them overhead.
Alitalia set to cancel flights as collapse loomsItaly's national airline has announced that it will not guarantee its flights from Monday because it can no longer afford to fill its planes with fuel.
Alitalia 'running out of fuel'Italy's troubled national airline, Alitalia, cannot guarantee flights beyond Sunday because of a lack of funds to buy fuel, a top official says.
Alitalia unions reject new contractsFrom ROME: Published: September 8 2008: "Five of nine unions representing workers at Alitalia on Monday rejected new productivity-linked contracts offered by a consortium of Italian investors seeking to rescue the loss-making flag carrier."
Don't hold your breath, but it seems as though the on-off-on-off again marriage between Air-France-KLM and the cash-strapped airline Alitalia could be on again.
Alitalia to axe 5.000 employeesYesterday evening Mr. Berlusconi announced to the PDL that "they have money" for Alitalia. He also admitted that 5.000 employees will be axed. However, these 5.000 will be assisted thanks to the €300mil loan, asked by Mr. Berlusconi to save Alitalia.
Alitalia accepts Air France offer Troubled Italian carrier Alitalia has agreed to be bought by rival Air France for a cut-price 138m euros(£106m:$215m) in a move to save the state airline. The Italian government, which holds 49.9% of Alitalia, failed to sell the company by auction in 2007.
Alitalia is 'comatose' says boss The chairman of Italy's struggling national airline Alitalia has raised new doubts over whether the carrier can survive without a new buyer. Alitalia are struggling to repay the more than 1bn euros ($1.4bn, £690m) it owes over the next three years.
Ryanair to sue EU over state aidRyanair is planning to sue the European Commission, accusing it of not acting on claims the budget airline has made about rivals.
Air France restarts merger talks with AlitaliaThese old world European carriers are hampered by high cost bases combined with a workforce that believes it has an inalienable right to strike every week unless it gets a 15% payrise.
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