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Italy’s Airport Shutdown

  • 100 airport employees are opposed to their new labor contracts, causing the cancellation of 39 Alitalia flights at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. Hundreds of passengers are stranded and spending the night at the airport.
  • Lines at Alitalia check-in counters at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport struggled with a backlog of hundreds of passengers who spent the night on the floor after the wildcat strike by some Alitalia workers
  • Rome’s Ciampino airport is closed for the second day, ever since the Ryanair jet had a run-in with a flock of starlings. At last report, the plane is still sitting on the tarmac unable to be moved.
  • 54 flights were cancelled At Milan’s airport, 4 in Naples and 4 in Sicily
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    George’s Point of View

    I suppose that ferry flights are an unavoidable reality of aviation; but in these days of conservation and high fuel prices, one wonders at the reasoning behind flying 1475 miles in an Airbus with 6 crew. If they’re flying in for repairs, isn’t there a danger for the crew? Is this the best possible management of vehicle, fuel, and manpower?

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