Italy’s new national airline, ITA Airways, launched on Friday with a promise to bring pride back to its national flag carrier, after Alitalia, Italy’s legacy airline, went bankrupt and ceased operations a day earlier.
Executives unveiled plans for the new network, airplanes, staffing and livery at a press conference livestreamed from Rome.
The first thing to know: everything will be *centopercento italiano*.
Pretty bold for a country to dive back into aeroplanes when it can’t stop busses exploding but who am I to object to these projects for *national pride*
Doesn’t feel like the shade of climate collapse is a good place from which to start expanding airlines
Another bottomless sink for Italy to throw taxpayers‘ money in. There is a reason why all of Italy‘s previous national carriers went bankrupt. These reasons haven’t changed.
Mafia acts all tough but they are just a bunch of welfare queens looking for goverment support.
I don’t know who said it, but I remember this:
How to become a millionaire? Start an airline as a billionaire.
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Italy’s new national airline, ITA Airways, launched on Friday with a promise to bring pride back to its national flag carrier, after Alitalia, Italy’s legacy airline, went bankrupt and ceased operations a day earlier.
Executives unveiled plans for the new network, airplanes, staffing and livery at a press conference livestreamed from Rome.
The first thing to know: everything will be *centopercento italiano*.
Pretty bold for a country to dive back into aeroplanes when it can’t stop busses exploding but who am I to object to these projects for *national pride*
Doesn’t feel like the shade of climate collapse is a good place from which to start expanding airlines
I always liked the name Alitalia.
ITA’s website is a little broken, but [here](https://www.itaspa.com/it_it/fly-ita/ita-world/network.html) is an overview of their initial network.
Alitalia is dead. Long live ITA.
Another bottomless sink for Italy to throw taxpayers‘ money in. There is a reason why all of Italy‘s previous national carriers went bankrupt. These reasons haven’t changed.
Mafia acts all tough but they are just a bunch of welfare queens looking for goverment support.
I don’t know who said it, but I remember this:
How to become a millionaire? Start an airline as a billionaire.