What Happened to Alitalia?

Alitalia, the once top tier Italian airline has gone into closure. What will happen to the Italian airline industry in the coming years?

[miguelteodoro]

Alitalia was an iconic livery, not just on the planes, but also the sponsorship you could see on the Lancia Stratos

[SimpleAviation]

ITA's livery was a good refresh from the rather dull Alitalia. But still, it was nostalgic.

[TechLegendGames]

Another large factor to Alitalia’s downfall was the Italian high-speed railway. There is a great Not Just Bikes video that explains this.

[Kosmo_Z]

the ALITALIA acronym made me laugh lmao

[justarandombird]

I have flown Alitalia a few times in my life(back when i was a kid). All i could say is that, from what I remember) is even tho the cabin crew were great, the core product/experience kinda lacked personality. Which is sad cus Italy has so much history, buildings and cultural aspect that the Italian airlines could've played in on to kinda make it feel like you are in Italy already.

I just hope ITA has more going for them.

[pals_]

0:07 I nearly laughed so hard at this part, keep up the funny and quality content!

[tobiadelmonte]

I'm Italian and I really appreciated this video.

[harrycop]

Well, I guess that was the best to happen for the sake of italian airlines..awesome video as always!💪

[putusancaya]

Yes, It is a shame to see Alitalia Go. But hopefully ITA will be able to have that feeling that Alitalia did.

[MatiasBFD]

I'd argue HSR has influenced the closure of Alitalia, since it is way too popular for them to keep up in regional flights, and COVID killed international travel

[dogevid]

Many planes of ITA airways still have the Alitalia livery

[loretta_]

Alitalia hadn't come to Australia in many years, I think Emirates flew part of the way for them. I flew them twice Melbourne to Rome to Trieste return in '85 and'90 and even as someone who knew nothing of air travel, I wasn't impressed by the experience. Strange they stopped flying here so long ago as there were so many people who moved here from Italy - that's the only reason I flew Alitalia, because my Italian mother wanted an Italian speaking airline 🤷🏻‍♀️

[JetAeroaviation]

0:05
Ice711: So whats Italy's biggest airline
Me: Pizza Airways

[lucaedgecombe]

Another factor hat contributed to Alitalia’s problems was the trains, to travel from Milan to Naples you’d rather take the high speed trains and get there in only 5 hours for a cheap cost, because of this local flights became less and less profitable

[alitaliaaa]

Also, don’t forget that a large chunk of Alitalia’s revenue came from local flights. And since that Italy invested pretty heavily on High-Speed Rail, it became way more convenient to travel by train rather than with Alitalia. For example, going from Rome to Milan takes only 3 hrs from centre to centre, meanwhile if you wanted to fly with Alitalia you had to go to Fiumicino and then fly to either Malpensa or Linate. And it just wasn’t worth the time or the money spent.

[thefox]

Love your videos man (or woman 😳)
Not very long but very entertaining! Keep up the quality content!

[TitanicCountryball]

I’m Italian and I loved flying Alitalia (it was my favorite airline), I sincerely think like that Alitalia is in some way ITA Airways’s father that passed away.

[AllAmericanPlaneSpotter]

Nice vid! A good reccomendation for a future vid would be Canada's cheap airline Lynx Air and why it disappeared out of the blue

[mysticalia]

i flew ITA to and from rome-france when i was in europe on their a320neos. honestly a pretty great airline. never got the chance to fly alitalia but ITA (other than their long check in lines at roma-fiumicino) is definitely a solid step forward.

[maggieclark]

I have flied on Alitalia very recent in fact I am in sicily now next to Italy 🇮🇹. The Alitalia I flew on had a ita airways cup, ticket, and a logo of ita airways on a wall.